Frank Federico, RPh

Vice President and safety faculty at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, MA

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Frank Federico, RPh, is Vice President and safety faculty at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, MA.  His primary areas of focus include patient safety and  application of reliability principles in health care.  He is also faculty for the Patient Safety Officer Training Program.  Mr. Federico has worked with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement since 1996 as a faculty member and Co-Chair of a number of Patient Safety Collaboratives. Prior to joining IHI, Mr. Federico was the Program Director of the Office Practice Evaluation Program and a Loss Prevention/Patient Safety Specialist at Risk Management Foundation (RMF) of the Harvard Affiliated Institutions in Cambridge, MA.  He, along with a team of nurse surveyors, developed a compendium of effective practices to reduce risk and harm in the office setting.  He served as Director of Pharmacy at Children's Hospital, Boston. While in that position, he was co-chair of a quality improvement team charged with revamping the medication system and chaired the Adverse Drug Event Committee.  He is co-author of a chapter in Achieving Safe and Reliable Healthcare, Strategies and Solutions. Frank Federico coaches teams and lectures extensively, nationally and internationally, on patient safety.