 But we're coming to the last part of our event before dinner and It's my favorite part because we get a chance to recognize individuals who we believe have made the biggest impact to patient safety in the past year and We call this Historically the patient safety humanitarian awards But beginning these this year we're gonna rename these and I want to talk to you a little bit about that It's still the humanitarian awards, but these awards will be given in memory of two amazing people who made huge impacts in our world while they were with us Although these two individuals did not know each other they had a lot in common both exuded outmost passion for helping people who didn't have a voice and Both these people combined their passion with creativity to face challenges and solve problems and in doing such Both in their own ways accomplished great things It was impossible to not be inspired when you were in their company. I Was fortunate to call Bob Biden a friend He devoted his life to public service Serving two terms as the Attorney General of Delaware as a member of the Army National Guard as Attorney General Beau went after those who abused a Duct or who otherwise put children in harm's way As President Obama said at Beau's funeral He left nothing in the tank He poured himself into making the world a better and safer place especially for our children He also fought His cancer with courage and during his cancer. He spent more time caring for others. They were being affected by his illness and perhaps even himself I Recently read the book his father wrote Joe Biden's promised me dad. I could not put it down I wanted you to each have a copy of it. It should be in your bags I hope you will take away from it as much as I did from how data sharing is Vital to the health of our population and how we lack it today Even the vice president of the United States could not get Beau's cancer information from one hospital to another to get consultation they had to actually use one of their family members who was a doctor to go pick it up physically and take it over and Also, he teaches in his book how to enjoy every moment with our loved ones and Courageously fight for those who don't have a voice and how we all need to take the long view to make this world a better place Before our turn comes to leave it. We are forever grateful for Beau's legacy of compassion The second humane return award we're giving today is a name is an in the name of Steve Moreau Also, someone I was proud to call a friend Steve served as a fellow board member of the patient safety movement foundation. He always knew what mattered what was real and Never took his eyes off of his goal of making this world a better place Unfortunately, we also lost Steve to cancer. It happened so fast one day He was planning his retirement Which he said after the retirement he was going to devote most of his time to the patient safety movement and Literally in his annual checkup the next day a few days before his retirement party He was told he had late-stage pancreatic cancer As many of you know, he had a long and successful career in health care administration He shared our vision of zero and helped in so many ways for us to grow the movement Historic shines brightly upon us as we work to towards our goal So it's my great pleasure That I now give our first Beau Biden humanitarian award to another man that has left nothing in the tank When it comes to helping others This year's Beau Biden humanitarian award goes to a public servant that has made patient safety the center of his work Has created patient safety laws that are leading the world and eliminating preventable deaths in our hospitals Since meeting him for the first time last year. I've learned that he never wavers from his goal To not only make hospitals across the UK, but the world as safe as possible He leads with steadfast dedication to improving the safety of patients by mandating transparency and Implementing country-wide Policies, there are certain to save tens of thousands of lives a year It is my great honor and pleasure to invite you invite excuse me the United Kingdoms Secretary of Health and Social Care the right honorable Jeremy Hunt to the stage to accept the patient safety movements highest honor The bull Biden Joe that's very naughty because you told me to stay but you didn't say why and I'm incredibly humbled. I think that The person who really should be getting an award today is is you for bringing together this whole patient safety movement and It's a big big thing you've done and you've gone global and it's making a huge difference and to get the support of President Clinton Is an incredible thing? And I think this is really a team effort. I've been inspired by Amazing doctors I can see Mike Durkin Liam Donaldson people who have Stood up in their own profession said things have to be different Amazing civil servants at the Department of Health William vinyl and his team Ed Jones Christina Robinson my my advisors But I think The people I would like to accept this award in honor of As well as Bob Biden and what a privilege that is Are the patient campaigners? We heard from Martin Bromley yesterday People like Scott and Sue Morris Melissa Mead who lost their children their loved ones they've really shown us the way and When you listen to them, it's not easy. It's not difficult to know what you have to do. So, thank you Jeremy, thanks for listening to those voices. Those voices have been talking for many many years Long before I began my humble journey here Thanks for listening and doing something about it. You really are showing the rest of the world what can be done and California is the first example and hopefully the rest of the world following your lead. So, thank you. Thank you so much Thank you It is a great pleasure that I give our first Steve Murrow humanitarian award to a person who First became involved with the patient safety movement Foundation in just two years ago and when he did So he did it with great enthusiasm in fact, when he began Making his commitments on behalf on behalf of his hospital Ariana thought it must be a spam. There were so many She thought it was a joke, but no sure enough Edwin meant it When we spoke with him his response was why wouldn't me why wouldn't we make all these commitments? his hospital Parish Medical Center in Titusville, Florida, which by the way is right next to all the launches of all the space shuttles and all the Satellites and everything. It's got a cool. They've got a nice view of it, too they started with nine commitments and Because of that and because of the number of lives they save there were one of the groups that won the fishing trip party with President Carter Which we really had a wonderful time with but during dinner one night President Carter asked the Representative and Edwin couldn't come so the CFO of the hospital came Well, you've done nine. Why didn't you do all of them? He said we will and as soon as we all left when we got back sure enough the website was full of all the new commitments and Arianna and had a chance to go visit them recently and they they really walk the talk and I'll give you an example they have above every room Assemble I've never seen it before. It's a very unique symbol and they have on every Person's uniform and clothing also a pen the large pen Representing that symbol and I asked them what is this about and they said well before we enter the room It's our way of pausing and taking a breath and Being mindful before we go in. It's all these amazing things. They've done and I and I have to say you know who it is now, but It's with great pleasure. I call Edwin Lothman to the stage to receive our highest honor Again completely off guard Sarah did a good job Again Thank You Joe Arianna and everybody involved in the patient safety movement foundation when I was introduced To to this organization two years ago as Joe said I Looked at all of the Apps and I compared them to our strategic plan. It's our call our game plan as I mentioned before George McIteria and our CEO and our visionary Helped us drive forth for our community a focus on what do the people of the persons in our community need? And as I looked at every individual app It was natural We were already doing it We may need to change a word change the calculation, but the work was something that was already there And one of the things that we remind our community at all times. It's not extra work to save a life It's the work we do so on behalf of George and behalf of our board of directors and behalf of our 1200 care partners who are committed to this Learn from you every day. I can't tell you how much I've learned in the last two and a half days from everybody here We truly appreciate this award in honor of Stephen wrote. Thank you all very much In many ways Edwin is now leading the way with his hospital UC Irvine is a second hospital to now Implement all the apps and I hope next year when we're with you Maybe maybe for lucky all four thousand plus maybe even more hospital will have implemented all of the apps. I Want to thank you all. This has been an incredible Meeting I want to thank you secretary hunt for inviting us to London. It's been phenomenal here and We we hope to have some fun with you tonight over dinner with taste of London and we're gonna have some entertainment by the McKenna Lee and the micro fixers Who have been coming every year as well? These are healthcare people that are doing this incredible music both their own Originals and some beautiful song. So Let's let the fun begin. Thank you so much. Thank you all for coming. Thank you