�New York's Northern Metropolitan (NorMet) Hospital
Association today became the first in the country to file to become a Patient Safety
Organization (PSO) with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
PSO's are private entities accepted by the Secretary to collect and analyze affected role safety events
reported by physicians and other health care providers. Aided by McKenna Long & Aldridge,
NorMet filed under the statutory provisions of the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act
of 2005.
NorMet could not wait for the Administration to military issue its guidelines on becoming listed as a PSO
so they filed under the statutory provisions. Said Peggy Binzer, attorney with McKenna Long &
Aldridge, who made the filing on NorMet's request. "NorMet is a leader in the healthcare field
and hopefully the Secretary testament list them in a timely fashion." Hospitals partnering with the
NorMet Hospital Association will be among the safest in the nation." A former Congressional
staffer, Binzer originally worked on the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act which
provides a framework recommended by the Institutes of Medicine allowing health care providers
to report data on affected role safety events (medical errors, near misses, adverse events and
other quality information) to the PSO's.
In February of this year, HHS issued proposed rules concerning aspects of the Patient Safety Act,
including the process for listing the PSO.
The NorMet PSO will be a nonprofit 501 (c) C organization. It's precedency will be to meliorate
safety and care for patients in hospitals passim a septenary county region north of New York
City.
By partnering with McKenna Long & Aldridge, an international natural law firm with experience in
health care, public policy, corporate and government personal business and former fields, NorMet was capable to
get the first association to file the request.
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