Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
At Johns Hopkins Medicine, we’re on a relentless mission to improve how we deliver health care. We believe that high-quality, safe health care is the result not just of individual excellence, but of well-designed systems and processes. We’re constantly collecting data, analyzing our health care processes and redesigning systems so that they’re more efficient and error-free.
Just as Johns Hopkins Medicine is a pioneer in innovative treatments and research breakthroughs, we’re also a leader in patient safety and quality. Our programs and strategies have been emulated by health-care organizations in the United States and abroad—and for good reason. Patients who come to Hopkins benefit from our vigilance to prevent errors and our commitment to continuously improve health care.
Johns Hopkins is committed to fulfilling the national patient safety goals set annually by the Joint Commission, an influential nonprofit agency that accredits health care organizations. These goals include such things as improved compliance with hand-washing guidelines, patient fall-prevention strategies, and medication safety measures.
