Hospital goes low, high tech to ensure patient safety

To ensure the count of medical sponges is correct in its operating rooms, Evans Army Community Hospital has started using radio-frequency ID sponges

Feature: Resolving Conflict and Professional Conduct

Patient Safety In Action: The Value of Partnership, Continued Learning

A decade of progress in Women’s health, cancer research

New discoveries at the Murtha Cancer Center have researchers encouraged about Women’s cancer research

Hospital's sterile-processing techs are 'Gladiators' of patient safety

Sterile-processing medical technicians are the multipliers of hospital safety who clean, disinfect and sterilize the hospital and dental clinic's surgical tools

2016 DoD PSP Awards Application Guidance

This document provides guidelines for all interested parties who would like to submit an application package for the 2016 Advancement toward High Reliability in Healthcare Awards Program. The awards program recognizes those who have shown initiative and commitment to the development of systems and processes that will lead the MHS toward a better,...

Patient Safety in Action: The I’M SAFE TeamSTEPPS® Checklist – An Exercise in Openness and Transparency with your Team

The connection between transparency and high reliability is one that touches many aspects of what we do as MHS patient safety professionals. We strive to be transparent in the way we share information with our patients – working with them as partners in their care and informing them of what we do openly and visibly. We are also transparent about our...

MHS Patient Safety Spotlight

The MHS Patient Safety Spotlight is a new resource designed to highlight best practices and interesting initiatives that come from the field and are worthy of being shared across the enterprise. This resource features data-driven examples of improvement and case studies that tackle specific problems with specific solutions.

DoD PSP Treasure Chest: August Edition

Welcome to the August edition of the DoD PSP Treasure Chest! Each and every month, we will be sharing resources to help you execute your day-to-day patient safety activities easily and effectively. Please visit us often and get access to tools and information developed with you, our committed MHS patient safety champions, in mind! This month we...

HRO Corner: The Patient Safety Culture Survey Resource Guide – An Overview

The DoD is on a journey to transform the Military Health System (MHS) into a high reliability organization (HRO) to ensure safe, reliable care for all of its patients and their families. This transformative shift is one that requires a laser-sharp focus by every one of us – leadership and frontline staff – to identify high-risk situations before they...

MHS Patient Safety Data Snapshot

The new MHS Patient Safety Data Snapshot is a monthly compilation of two types of patient safety data 1) Sentinel Event (SE) notifications submitted to the Patient Safety Analysis Center (PSAC); 2) Anonymous, voluntarily reported patient safety events via the web-based incident reporting system known as PSR.

Feature: Transparency, High Reliability and Patient Safety

On any given day, Military Health System (MHS) patient safety professionals are working tirelessly to ensure they provide the highest quality of care to their patients. Driven by a high level of dedication, MHS patient safety professionals know that our patients are the single most important part of our mission and we must serve our patients in an...

MHS Leadership Engagement Toolkit

The Leadership Engagement Toolkit was designed to help healthcare leaders assess gaps in their safety culture, engage key influencers for change, set goals for targeted improvement, implement proven safe practices, and reinforce key behaviors to ensure high-reliability performance for improvement. There are two sets of evidence-based best practices (...

Feature: TeamSTEPPS® and High Reliability: An Overview of the 2016 National TeamSTEPPS Conference

The 10th Annual National TeamSTEPPS Conference – an event designed to highlight strategies and techniques to effectively implement and sustain TeamSTEPPS in today’s ever-evolving health care environment – was held 7-10 June, 2016 in Washington, D.C. Welcoming over 700 health care industry professionals and experts, the National TeamSTEPPS conference...

Military Health System (MHS) Patient Safety Culture Survey Update

Starting in February through mid-April, Military Health System (MHS) staff at Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs) worldwide were asked to complete the 2016 MHS Patient Safety Culture Survey (Culture Survey). The purpose of the Culture Survey was to assess staff perceptions of patient safety at their MTFs.