AAKP Patient Safety award
The AAKP Patient Safety Award recognizes specific and impactful leadership and activities that exemplify the Association’s strategic goal of advancing patient safety through innovations and specific measures within health systems, both nationally and globally, that inspire actions to improve overall patient safety. The award was created in 2014 by the former Network of New England whose Board of Directors established an endowment to continue the patient safety work of the non-profit organization led by Jenny Kitsen.
Among the organizations eligible to apply for the Jenny Kitsen Patient Safety Award are 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(6) organizations , public and government agencies, and many other organizations and institutions.
2024 Award WinnerS
The National Kidney Foundation
2024 Spring Clinicals Meetings
Session Title: Are We Getting It Right? Expanding QAPI Team Objectives to Improve Individualized Care
"The National Kidney Foundation is honored to receive the AAKP Jenny Kitsen Patient Safety grant for a session at our 2024 Spring Clinical Meetings titled 'Are We Getting It Right? Expanding QAPI Team Objectives to Improve Individualized Care.' This session will feature an esteemed panel of inter-professional team members, including a patient, who will share valuable insights to bridge the gap between data-driven insights and personalized care." -The National Kidney Foundation
Kidneys Quest Foundation Inc.
Kidney Disease Impact Conference
"We're in the heart of the community of kidney disease together. " -Kidneys Quest Foundation Inc.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2024 Annual Transplant Oncology Conference
“We are very excited and honored to receive the Jenny Kitsen Award to support our conference, 'Kidney Transplantation in Plasma Cell Disorders including MGRS: Inaugural Symposium and Workshop.' This conference aims to discuss updates on kidney transplantation for patients with plasma cell dyscrasias (multiple myeloma, AL amyloidosis and monoclonal gammopathy with renal significance/ MGRS). Patients with these disorders tend to have kidney problems, but rarely receive kidney transplantation, due to the concern for recurrent disease and infectious complications. With continuing partnership with AAKP, we strongly believe that our conference will advance the access to kidney transplants for these vulnerable patients." -Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Past award winners
2023 Award Winners
Katina Lang-Lindsey, PhD, MSW (Alabama A&M University)
Kidneys Quest Foundation
Terrance Jay O'Neil, MD, FACP, FASN, COLUSAfMC (Ret), President, HD Clean LLC
Mariana Murea, MD (Wake Forest University)
National Kidney Foundation
Shahid Muhammad, PhD (Coventry University, UK)
2022 Award Winners
Dr. Alan Kliger, Chair, Nephrologists Transforming Dialysis Safety (NTDS), American Society of Nephrology (ASN) (National)
The Renal Patients Support Group (RPSG) – United Kingdom (International)
2021 AWARD WINNERS
Kidney Quest Foundation
2020 AWARD WINNERS
Satellite Healthcare
Katina Lang-Lindsey, PhD, LMSW, Assistant Professor; Alabama A&M University
2019 AWARD WINNER
Making Dialysis Safer for Patients Coalition
2018 AWARD WINNER
National Kidney Foundation
National Renal Administrators Association
2017 Award Winners
A.T. Still University of Oral Health, Dr. Maureen Munnelly Perry – Oral Health Safety Protocols
All Kidney Patients Support Group (AKPSG) – Patient Safety and Empowerment
2016 Award Winners
National Renal Administrators Association
Renal Physicians Association
2015 Award Winners
American Nephrology Nurses Association
Forum of ESRD Networks
