Solutions for Patient Safety – Launched in 2009, Solutions for Patient Safety was founded by a group of Ohio Children’s Hospitals to improve quality and reduce costs. The partnership has realized significant results through its initial efforts: a 60 percent reduction in surgical site infections in designated cardiac, neurosurgery and orthopedic procedures and a 40 percent reduction in overall adverse drug events. These efforts have saved 7,700 children from unnecessary harm and avoided $11.8 million in unnecessary health care costs. These initial successes were translated into a national collaboration of over 70 children’s hospitals (including the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein), all working together to eliminate preventable harm to children. Specific healthcare associated conditions focused on by the collaborative and the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein include: surgical site infections, central line-associated blood stream infections, readmissions, falls, pressure ulcers, adverse drug events, obstetrical adverse events, ventilator associated pneumonia and catheter associated urinary tract infections.