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UPMC Releases Good News on Condition H
Good news from Pittsburgh. UPMC is reporting results from the first two years of its implementation of Condition H, the patient- and family-activated rapid response team program that is gaining good traction in patient safety circles throughout the country. From...
JKF Blog 2.0
Summer! It's time for baseball and barbecues and vacations, but here at the Josie King Foundation it's also time to refresh our blog. We want www.josieking.org to be a continually useful resource for you, filled with new, helpful information and various ways to...
With the Medical Students
A few nights ago I spent the evening with 27 Post-Baccalaureate students from Johns Hopkins University. I had been asked by the director to join the students for dinner and then speak to them for an hour or so. I was to be joined by Rick Kidwell, who had been the lead...
It All Comes Back to Communication
In the nearly five years that I have been participating in this patient safety movement, I have met thousands of wonderful healthcare providers. I have visited hospitals all over the country. I have sat and listened to dozens of patient safety conferences and grand...
Introducing the Care Journal
Have you ever been a patient or had a loved one who was a patient in a hospital? Did you feel overwhelmed and scared? Was a lot of information thrown at you? I am guessing that your answers to the above might be yes. I know that I felt that way when Josie was in the...
Welcome to Our New Website
Thanks for visiting us at the Josie King Foundation's new and improved home on the web. I encourage you explore the various areas of the site, and also to send us your opinions on the site. As we worked to create this website, we were guided by the hundreds and...
Sponsors
The Josie King Foundation relies on the support of its generous donors to develop innovative programs aimed at preventing medical errors and sustaining the patient safety culture. We wish to thank our corporate sponsors and foundation supporters who make our work possible. To learn more about how your corporation or foundation can support the Josie King Foundation, please email Sorrel King at sking@josieking.org.
Josie King Necklace
The Josie King Foundation is happy to offer one of our prettiest projects of all — The Josie Necklace — a reminder of all things positive.
The whimsical leaf is the symbol of the Josie King Foundation. It represents the desire to promote positive change – change in patient care, change in the health care industry and change in ourselves.
The Josie Necklace
The hand cast sterling leaf hangs delicately from a 16″ double sterling chain.
The Josie Necklace is a wonderful way to recognize those special care givers who find the good catches, who spend the extra time engaging patients and families, and who work hard to promote a culture of safety. They are a great gift for Nurse’s Week, Patient Safety week or for yourself knowing that all proceeds support the Josie King Foundation so that we can continue to create projects and programs which promote positive change.
For More Information
To order (bulk orders available) please contact: handerson@josieking.org
JKF COVID19 MESSAGE
14 May 2020
Dear friends,
Today will be our final day of meal deliveries to area hospitals for the time being. We are taking a break to reassess hospital need and will update our site, Facebook page, and Twitter account accordingly.
Thank you so much for helping the Josie King Foundation support our local caregivers during this stressful time. Because of your generous donation, we were able to supply over 5,000 meals to our healthcare workers who have sacrificed so much to keep us safe and healthy. We ran six weeks of deliveries, five days a week to over fifteen hospitals. We could not have done this without the incredible community support we received from The Corner Pantry, FreedomCar, and most importantly, you. It has been great to come together and provide a little boost to morale for our caregivers and to show them how much we care. Together we put some smiles on faces even though we can’t see them ???? (see below).
Stay well~
Sorrel and the Josie King Foundation Team
30 April 2020
Dear friends,
In the spirit of Nurse’s Week (May 6-12) and because we love our nurses who we need now more than ever, JKF has decided to continue the brown bag program until mid-May. Happy Nurse’s Week to you all and thank you for everything you do to keep us safe.
Here is a quick recap of our brown bag program. 4,125 brown bags were delivered for the month of April. We added breakfast packs and nightshift snacks for our amazing overnight staff. We delivered to 15 hospitals, Tuesday – Saturday. Thank you to Freedom Car for volunteering their big red van and drivers to help make these deliveries. We could never have done this without Freedom Car. Thank you to The Corner Pantry for making thousands of coronation chicken salad, smoked turkey-avocado, and yummy veggie sandwiches. Thank you to everyone who donated to help support the program. Together we put some smiles on many faces. See some fun pictures below.
Sorrel King and the Josie King Foundation Team
06 April 2020
Dear friends,
Bagged Lunch with Donor’s Name
I hope everyone is safe, well and hunkered down.
The Josie King Foundation has been reaching out to many of our hospital partners locally and around the country to offer ways in which we can help support our amazing caregivers who are under so much stress at this time. JKF has partnered with The Corner Pantry to deliver special brown bag lunches to hospitals in Baltimore and around the state. We completed our first week of deliveries with over 400 lunches delivered to the caregivers at Johns Hopkins, GBMC, St. Joe’s, UMMC Greene Street, UMMC Midtown, and Mercy. The lunches put lots of smiles on some weary faces. As of yesterday, Springwell, Union Memorial, Harbor Hospital, Good Sam, Franklin Square, Sinai, and Grace Medical have signed on to our program. Over the next few weeks, we will be delivering over 4000 meals. This is way beyond the reach we thought we would have. Thank you to Freedom Car for donating their fleet and drivers to help with deliveries.
If you would like to show your gratitude to our caregivers, please donate and join us in this effort. With each donation of $10, your name will be handwritten on a brown bag lunch to share in our message of thanks and appreciation. Feel free to donate as many brown bag lunches as you would like. It’ll be just like the bag lunch your mom made for you, but way better ????
Many thanks and stay safe,
Sorrel King and the Josie King Foundation team
P.S. Also, for your convenience, JKF has a Venmo account @JosieKing-Foundation
Your donation to JKF will be tax-deductible and 100% of the dollars you donate will go to feeding our caregivers.
(The Josie King Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, publicly supported organization. TIN 26-1118580.
Contributions are fully deductible to the extent permitted by law. Documents and information submitted to the state of Maryland under the Maryland Charitable Solicitations Act are available from the Office of the Secretary of State for the cost of copying and postage. A copy of The Josie King Foundation’s current financial statement is available upon request.)
Boston Marathon 2015
Picking Up the Pace for Patient Safety-Boston Marathon 2015 –fundraiser for the Josie King Foundation
April 25,2015
To Friends of the Josie King Foundation,
Thank you so much for supporting the Josie King Foundation as we “Picked up the Pace for Patient Safety” at the Boston Marathon. It was a cold, windy and rainy day. Knowing that I was running for the Josie King Foundation and that so many wonderful people had supported me/JKF made the wind, the rain and the pain a little less miserable.
To date, the race has raised almost $40,000 and the donations are still trickling in. Your support will enable the Josie King Foundation to ramp up our mission as we continue to partner with hospitals, medical/nursing schools to make medical care safer.
Thank you again for the kind donation. Your support meant so much to the Josie King Foundation, to my family and to me.
Many thanks,
Sorrel King
Athletes village, Sorrel and Perry at Boston marathon start — Getting ready to run for a mission (note the awesome Josie King Foundation T-shirts)
Sorrel and Perry at the Boston marathon finish line. 26.2 miles…almost to $40,000 and still coming in for the Josie King Foundation.
Article from the Boston Herald
Click here to read the full article on the Boston Herald.
The JKF Email Campaign for Picking Up the Pace for Patient Safety –
Boston Marathon 2015
