​​​​​​About the Initiative Patient Safety Awareness Week is an annual recognition event intended to encourage everyone to learn more about health care safety. During this week, IHI seeks to advance important discussions locally and globally, and inspire action to improve the safety of the health care system – for patients and the workforce. Preventing harm...Read More

A Growing Problem Baby Boomers—a term used to refer to individuals born in the United States between 1946 and 1964—are now approaching old age. Surprisingly, these older adults are using illicit substances in a pattern not seen in prior generations of older adults, including developing substance use disorders (SUDs) at increasingly higher rates; in previous...Read More

Viral Tide Pod challenge | Serious health consequences Courtesy:  Modern Healthcare  | January 27, 2018 Even for a stunt destined to be filed under “dumb things teens do,” the Tide Pod challenge raises the bar—to toxic. Teens are eating the laundry detergent pods as part of a viral social media stunt and that’s worrying healthcare providers...Read More

The Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Patient and Family Education Initiative, offers free monthly webinars designed to equip family members with the skills, knowledge and confidence to support a loved one with borderline personality disorder.   This series of free online seminars, moderated by McLean clinicians are available to the public via the McLean’s website. Visit http://www.mcleanhospital.org/consumer-education/borderline-personality-disorder-patient-and-family-education-initiative for...Read More

Cruz Clinic teamed with the Johns Hopkins University MD Junior organization and sent medical supplies and medications, along with physicians and students to Puerto Rico to assist the citizens still suffering from the hurricane.  The medical mission took place in January 2018, and helped many needy people in Puerto Rico. Cruz Clinic created a fundraiser...Read More