Remaking American Medicine is a four-part prime time television series intended for broadcast on PBS in October 2006.

South Carolina Champions of Change

ETV's Countdown to Better Patient Care: Ten Tips for Patient Safety

Program Title	SC Channel (Digital-Only) Broadcast Time	ETV Broadcast Time
Silent Killer	Thursday, Oct. 5th 10 - 11 pm	Sunday, October 8th 6 - 7 pm
First Do No Harm	Thursday, Oct. 12th 10 -11 pm	Sunday, October 15th 6 -7 pm
The Stealth Epidemic	Thursday, Oct. 19th 10 - 11 pm	Sunday, October 22nd 6 - 7 pm
Hand in Hand	Thursday, Oct. 26th 10 - 11 pm	Sunday, October 29th 6 - 7 pm

The series tells the stories of individuals and institutions struggling to address the significant problems that now plague our health care system. The PBS series focuses on the breathtaking advances being made in improving the quality of patient care and will feature compelling profiles of providers and patients who are working together to change fundamentally the way health care is delivered in this country. The goal of Remaking American Medicine is to inspire and empower viewers, by demonstrating what transforming the quality of patient care can mean to all Americans.

ETV has joined with other South Carolina partners to form the S.C. Coalition for Remaking American Medicine. ETV will host a thirty-minute forum entitled "Countdown to Better Patient Care: Ten Tips for Patient Safety" that will feature local Champions of Change who are addressing quality of healthcare issues in our state.

Your Day, Clemson's noontime weekday show on ETV Radio, features a wide range of topics, including health-related issues. Your Day will feature Remaking S.C. Medicine stories in conjunction with this television series on ETV.

Join the effort to transform S.C. Healthcare by calling 1-800-922-3089.

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Series Segments

Program One - “Silent Killer” -- Every year at least 98,000 Americans are killed – and countless more are injured – as a result of medical errors. This program begins by profiling the efforts of Sorrel King, whose 18-month-old daughter died at one of the most respected hospitals in the world, Johns Hopkins. King has gone from grieving victim to engaged activist, partnering with Johns Hopkins to make safety a top priority at the institution. Now she has joined forces with Dr. Donald Berwick, a nationally recognized patient safety advocate, to save 100,000 lives in American hospitals.

Program Two - “First Do No Harm” -- This program focuses on the impact of hospital-acquired infections and medical errors in two institutions, and follows the efforts of physicians who are challenging their colleagues to live up to their oath to “First Do No Harm.” In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Chief of Medicine Dr. Richard Shannon is confronting an epidemic of hospital-acquired infections that are shattering the lives of their victims. Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey is engaged in an effort to completely transform the way the institution delivers care. The goal in both hospitals is to ensure that the people trusted to provide safe and effective medical treatment do not harm patients.

Program Three - “The Stealth Epidemic” -- Chronic diseases, like diabetes and congestive heart failure, affect nearly 100 million Americans, and treatment of these illnesses consumes nearly 70 percent of all health care resources. Yet doctors are often unable to prevent needless suffering or even death, and these failures are threatening the viability of our entire health care system. This program looks at groundbreaking efforts in two very different communities -- Los Angeles and Whatcom County in the state of Washington -- that are fundamentally transforming the physician-patient relationship … and offer a glimmer of hope for patients across the country who are struggling with their chronic conditions.

Program Four - “Hand in Hand” -- As medicine continues to become more and more technologically sophisticated and the systems that deliver medical care become more complex, the relationship between providers and patients and their families is more important than ever. This final program tells the story of patients and families who have formed a unique bond in a teaching hospital in Augusta, Georgia to transform the institution into a nationally recognized facility, where partnership is a guiding vision to the care it delivers.

To Become Involved

• RAM National Web Site
• View Sample Video Clip
• Question & Answer Interview with Frank Christopher, RAM Executive Producer
• National RAM Promotional Flyer
• South Carolina RAM Promotional Flyer

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