2020 Humanitarian Award Ceremony
Channel: Patient Safety Movement
Date: 2021-02-10

Every year the Patient Safety Movement Foundation identifies the most influential advocates in patient safety and honors them with the Humanitarian Award at the annual World Patient Safety, Science and Technology Summit. This award recognizes leaders who have made significant progress in eliminating preventable patient deaths so that we can reach our shared goal of zero preventable deaths in the hospital.

Steven Moreau Humanitarian Award: Barbara Pelletreau, RN, MPH

Each year we present the Steven Moreau Humanitarian Award to a Hospital Administrator whose zeal for improving patient safety in their hospital is clearly prominent. Steven Moreau was the CEO of St. Joseph’s Hospital here in Orange, California and a board member of the PSMF. Sadly, Steve passed in 2017 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. This award was established in his name because he embodied all the qualities of a leader that prioritized patient safety. He did so after realizing that his hospital had room to improve and then truly took ownership of that improvement process with his senior leadership team and Board of Directors.

Michael Seres Humanitarian Award: Marty Hatlie, JD and Vonda Vaden Bates 

This award is newly established this year and named after an extraordinary man who passed away on May 30, 2020. He was an extraordinary patient advocate who from a young age, had to learn to advocate for himself due to his complicated medical needs. Through his experience as a life-long patient, he also worked furiously to help promote the importance of person and family engagement. From this year on we will recognize an individual who, in the last year, contributed to advance person and family engagement, public awareness and public engagement in patient safety.

Judie Burrows Humanitarian Award: Steve Burrows

We have established the Judie Burrows Humanitarian Award to acknowledge an individual who has told a story of preventable harm or death that has made a significant impact in the public sphere in the last year.