Patient safety and quality innovation for hospitals and health care systems in the U.S. and abroad.
Incidents related to patient safety and medical error cost the U.S. health care system alone about $17 billion to $29 billion annually. The global impact is even more astounding. According to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, safety and error incidents in hospitals aren’t the result of recklessness; rather, flawed systems, processes and conditions that lead to mistakes or fail to prevent them are the causes.
Johns Hopkins Medicine developed the Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care to help our hospital and other hospitals in the U.S. and around the world execute best practices and improve models of care delivery, including its foundational five pillars of patient safety:
- Build a culture of safety
- Respect local wisdom, such as unit-specific cultural differences
- Report events
- Learn from mistakes
- Measure and report key patient safety performance indicators
Watch a video about the Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care
Since a single model of care doesn’t work for all hospitals, the Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care customizes its quality and patient safety initiatives. That includes working with your physicians, nurses and senior leaders collaboratively to develop and implement tailored solutions that work for your hospital.
