Training Opportunities at the Center for Innovation

We help health care organizations worldwide to achieve unprecedented and quantifiable levels of quality and patient safety by translating Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions’ extensive best evidence and research into day-to-day practice. Choose from a variety of patient safety workshops, conferences and programs—come to Hopkins or we’ll come to you. 

Questions? Contact us at innovations@jhmi.edu.

• Patient Safety Practitioner Certificate Program
• CUSP Workshop
• Lean for Healthcare 2-Day
• Lean Sigma Prescription for Healthcare 5-Day Green Belt
• Improving Perioperative Care
• Transforming the Radiology Practice with Quality
• Creating a Patient Safety Strategy for Your Hospital
• Intensive Care Unit Safety
• Making Hand Hygiene the #1 Priority Among Health Care Workers
• Measuring and Improving Culture of Safety

Patient Safety Practitioner Certificate Program

This workshop gives participants the opportunity to understand fundamental concepts and tools to go from good to great and to develop a patient safety strategic plan that will guide their institutions in developing a sustainable patient safety program. This includes understanding the leadership imperative, creating a “culture of safety,” aligning the interests of clinicians with the goals of the organization, learning from defects in patient care, incorporating human and environmental factors to reduce error, and empowering frontline clinicians by providing them with tools to effectively implement change. Cost: $1,995 per participant.

Dates in 2011: October 17-19
Register: www.regonline.com/safetyofficer

CUSP Workshop

Learn how your organization can adopt CUSP—the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program—to energize patient safety efforts among frontline providers and tackle the hazards that threaten your patients. Adopted by about 40 units at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, CUSP has been used to foster a culture of safety and to target a range of problems: patient falls, poor communication among caregivers, and medication administration errors, among others. CUSP also provided the framework for more than 100 intensive care units in Michigan to drastically reduce central catheter-related bloodstream infections. ICUs across dozens of other U.S. states are seeking to replicate the success of that Hopkins-led project. 

Dates in 2011: Sept. 26-27
Register: www.regonline.com/cusp_workshop

Lean for Healthcare 2-Day

Now more than ever the pressure is on to find ways to provide high quality care while improving efficiency and reducing cost. If you are looking for a way to heal health care from within, Lean could be your answer. Lean methodology is easy to learn and easy to apply. Armed with Lean tools and techniques, your frontline staff can identify waste in your current health care delivery processes and apply lean principles to reduce or eliminate that waste. Build capacity within your own organization and stop relying on consultants. Cost: $995 per participant.

Dates in 2011: September 20-21
Register: www.regonline.com/leanhealth

Lean Sigma Prescription for Healthcare® 5-Day Green Belt

Conducted over five consecutive days, this Green Belt course provides tools for reducing waste and variability of processes. It’s been successfully implemented in various areas of hospitals including pharmacy, surgery and the emergency department. All participants will apply these tools to a project from their hospital. Cost: $3,995 per participant.

Dates in 2011: October 10-14
Register: www.regonline.com/leansigma

Improving Perioperative Care

Surgery is an area of high impact, high potential harm and high cost in most hospitals. In addition, Surgical Care Improvement Measures are being publicly reported. This two-day working program will introduce the science of safety as it relates to perioperative care, provide guidance on developing dashboards to measure and improve performance, and teach participants to adapt specific interventions to their organizations’ operating rooms and improve outcomes (e.g., surgical site infection, teamwork & communications, etc.). Cost: $595 per participant.

Date in 2011: November 14-15
Register: www.regonline.com/safesurgery

Transforming the Radiology Practice with Quality

Learn how to build a state-of-the-art quality program in radiology that fosters and sustains a safer, more productive and more satisfying work environment. An effective quality program can be an engine for change to help adapt a radiology practice to increasing pressures for greater efficiency, performance and quality.

Date in 2011: October 10-11
Register: www.regonline.com/radiologyquality

All workshops above are available to be conducted at your health care facility, as are the following programs. Contact us to discuss these services:

Creating a Patient Safety Strategy for Your Hospital

Come alone or bring a leadership team from your health care facility to participate in an interactive session to develop a “safety strategic plan” that will guide your hospital/system to develop and sustain a patient safety program. The safety strategic plan will include the organizational context to support change of any kind, including clear aim-setting and prioritization, transparent measurement, investment in building quality-improvement capacity, and mindfulness of the role that every stakeholder in the care process has in driving improvement.

Intensive Care Unit Safety

Intensive care units are complex, high-risk areas in any hospital. This two-day workshop helps participants create an ICU comprehensive unit-based safety program and adapt specific interventions demonstrated to reduce infections and complications associated with ICU care, reduce length of stay, and improve employee satisfaction.

Making Hand Hygiene the #1 Priority Among Health Care Workers – The Johns Hopkins Infection Prevention Workshop

While the importance of proper hand hygiene in preventing hospital-acquired infections is well known, many health care organizations have struggled to improve their compliance. Our infection prevention workshop provides valuable tools and guidance for bringing about behavior change that reduces the spread of disease.

Measuring and Improving Culture of Safety

The Joint Commission now requires organizations to assess their culture of safety and use this information to identify areas for improvement. Have you conducted a cultural assessment of your hospital? Perhaps your hospital has conducted a cultural assessment but you are not sure how to use the findings with your frontline staff, or it is unclear where you should start. Our workshop will provide practical examples of programs and tools that can improve your culture of safety scores. We will also show you how to develop and foster a culture of safety within your organization.