UPCOMING EVENTS
Countdown To September 14, 2025
World Patient Safety Day 2025
September 14-17, 2025
- Reception and Dinner
- Project PIVOT Workshop
- Hill Visits
- Leadership Briefing
Every child has the right to safe, quality health care — from the very beginning. Yet, newborns and young children face higher risks due to their rapid development, evolving health needs, and different disease patterns. They rely on adults to speak up and make decisions for them. Children may also face added challenges depending on their socio-economic circumstances, such as not being able to get the care they need. These factors make them more susceptible to harm if care isn’t specifically adapted to their age, size, health condition, and context.
A single safety incident can have lifelong consequences for a child’s health and development. That’s why World Patient Safety Day 2025 is dedicated to ensuring safe care for every newborn and child, with a special focus on those from birth to nine years old. This year’s slogan, “Patient safety from the start!”, emphasizes the urgent need to act early and consistently to prevent harm throughout childhood, and yield benefits across the life course.
Children aren’t small adults. They require individualized safe care
Children need care tailored to their individual needs—their age, weight, developmental stage, medical requirements, ability to communicate, and specific context.
Safety first, always, and in every health care setting
Children are most at risk in intensive care and during complex treatments. Protecting them from unsafe care must be the top priority.
The most common causes of harm are known
These include errors with medications and diagnosis, infections caught during care, problems with medical equipment, such as tubes or monitors, and missed warning signs when a child’s condition starts getting worse.
Safer care depends on safe systems and teamwork
Well-designed systems, supported staff and engaged caregivers keep children safe. Every voice counts.
We Welcome:
Patients • Clinicians • Healthcare Leaders • Health Policy Leaders • Lawmakers
PFPS US Champions, Partners & Collaborators
"In honor of those who have died, those left disabled, our loved ones today and the world’s children yet to be born"
World Patient Safety Week 2025 Agenda:
Sunday, September 14, 2025
- Reception (5:00 - 6:00 PM) and dinner (6:00 - 8:00 PM) at the Holiday Inn Capitol National Mall (By Invitation)
Monday, September 15, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, All-day Project PIVOT working meeting at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center (By invitation)
- Dinner 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM at the Holiday Inn Capitol National Mall (Hill Visit Attendees)
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
- Capitol Hill Visits (ALL DAY)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Congressional Briefing (Location: 106 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg. | 50 Constitution Ave. NE, Washington, DC 20002)
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Leadership Briefing (Virtual, Register Here)
Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg Center
Lodging at Holiday Inn Washington Capitol National Mall
550 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20024
Directions from the Holiday Inn to
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center
