maps patient safety 101 and patient safety 102 for health care staff

Published Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Produced by the Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety (MAPS), Patient Safety 101 and Patient Safety 102 are video courses designed to teach basics about patient safety to a broad audience. The sessions feature information from presentations and discussion guides presented at the fall 2010 MAPS Patient Safety Conference.

Stratis Health is proud to be a founding member and active partner of MAPS, a private and public partnership, which promotes patient safety through collaborative and supportive efforts among all participants of the health care system in Minnesota. We have a long history of working to promote and enable patient safety in Minnesota, and recommend that health care organizations take advantage of these new courses when planning inservices and refreshers for existing staff and new staff orientation.

The classes can benefit physicians, nurses, pharmacists, hospital quality and safety directors and managers, risk managers, and human resource managers, as well as senior administrators and board members new to the field of patient safety. They describe the impact of designing safer systems to minimize human error and differentiate between human error and behavioral choices that may be at-risk behavior or reckless conduct, with appropriate responses to each.

Stratis Health’s focus on patient safety includes working with hospitals to improve health care processes and systems related to surgical care, heart failure, drug safety, and hospital acquired infections, and working with nursing homes to reduce pressure ulcers and use of physical restraints. We also provide training and technical assistance in organizational and community change management, culture change, and patient-centered care to improve patient safety.

Stratis Health jointly served with the Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality as the national Patient Safety Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Support Center, developing and offering tools, resources, training, and support for QIOs nationally to support hospitals and nursing homes in reducing pressure ulcers and physical restraints and in organizational leadership and team building.

In addition, we work extensively with the Minnesota Department of Health on adverse event reporting by hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, and regional treatment centers.