Vanderbilt’s Julie Morath, R.N., M.S., with Dennis Quaid following a patient safety awareness talk given by the actor at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Julie Morath, R.N., M.S., chief quality and patient safety officer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is featured among dozens of VUMC participants in a new documentary film narrated by actor Dennis Quaid called “Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Health Care Harm.”
The one-hour film — featuring faculty, staff and patients at VUMC, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital and hospitals in Europe — aired April 24 on the Discovery Channel, with repeat broadcasts May 1 and May 8 at 7 a.m.
In 2007, hospital personnel in California accidentally administered life-threatening adult doses of the blood thinner heparin to Quaid’s 12-day-old twins.
Today the Quaid twins are both healthy, and their parents have become patient safety advocates.