The Patient Safety Initiative
In the summer of 2006, NCPS introduced the Patient Safety Initiative (PSI).
PSI was established to stimulate creative approaches to complex patient safety issues, and many successful projects have been funded in the first two years of the program.
VA patient safety professionals have used PSI as an opportunity to develop projects with a demonstrable impact on their patient safety programs; projects with well-defined measures and strong rationales.
Decrease in fall rate by 25 percent — VA Medical Center, Augusta, Ga.
Increased flu vaccination rate: 51 percent to 67 percent — VA Medical Center, Tomah. Wis.