Your DoD Patient Safety Program (PSP) is a complete program with the goal of creating a culture of patient safety and quality within the Military Health System (MHS). We encourage a systems approach to creating a safer patient environment; engaging MHS leadership; promoting collaboration across all three services; and fostering trust, transparency, teamwork, and communication.
Our Mission is to promote a culture of safety to end preventable patient harm by engaging, educating and equipping patient-care teams to put evidenced-based safe practices in place across the organization.
Our Vision is to support the military mission by building organizational commitment and capacity to implement and sustain a culture of safety to protect the health of the patients in our care.
We support the military mission by encouraging a culture of safety to protect the health of patients in our care.
- Leadership Engagement: Leaders are the champions of change. We offer solutions to engage, educate and equip the entire patient care team to be champions for patient safety and institutionalize evidenced-based safe practices.
- Teamwork and Awareness: Sharing information is the key to ensuring all DoD patient care teams have one vision for patient safety. We offer solutions that help teams continuously learn and develop skills to reduce risk and provide high quality care to patients.
- Alignment and Partnership: To reach a systems approach to improving patient safety, we partner and collaborate with leaders in patient safety that align with our mission including the MHS Quadruple Aim, the High Reliability Organization (HRO) Task Force, the Partnership for Patients and the National Quality Forum’s Safe Practices.
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4/2/2014
This Falls Sustainment Guide supports the 2012 - 2013 Military Health System (MHS) Partnership for Patients initiative to improve the quality and safety of health care in all Department of Defense (DoD) Medical Treatment Facilities (MTF). The purpose of this Falls Sustainment Guide is to provide the tools and resources to ensure a reduction in falls and harm from falls at your Military Treatment facility (MTF).
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This regulation directs standardized implementation of endorsed evidence-based falls risk assessment tools: the Johns Hopkins Hospital Fall Risk Assessment© (adult) and the Miami Children’s Hospital’s Humpty Dumpty Scale© (pediatric). In addition, this regulation requires incorporation of falls assessment documentation into the inpatient (Essentris) electronic medical record (EMR).
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2/13/2014
The Readmissions Implementation Guide is one of 10 harm-specific guides designed to assist you as you implement identified evidence-based practices to improve patient care.
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2/11/2014
The Falls Implementation Guide was created to support the Partnership for Patients, a national initiative sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services to reduce harm in health care facilities.
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The purpose of this regulation is to provide policy and recommendations that will help ensure minimal risk of fires associated with the performance of surgical procedures in any healthcare setting to include, but not limited to, the following: operating room (OR), office-based, ambulatory surgery, and intensive care unit type.
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1/24/2014
The lessons learned through the Military Health System (MHS) Adverse Drug Event (ADE) implementation process have led to the development of an improved Sustainment Guide. This sustainment guide includes the elimination of monitoring the therapeutic class of Sedatives, implementing processes to improve the integrity of data, clarification of definitions, and tracking data metrics to include clinically significant, preventable, and measurable harm associated with adverse drug events.
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1/22/2014
The Ventilator Associated Pneumonia and Ventilator Associated Events (VAP) Implementation Guide is one of 10 harm-specific guides designed to assist you as you implement identified evidence-based practices to improve patient care.
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This memorandum encourages commands to create "safe zones" around the patient experience where any staff member can speak up and patient safety comes first.
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6/17/2013
The Obstetrical Adverse Events Implementation Guide is one of 10 harm-specific guides designed to assist you as you implement identified evidence-based practices to improve patient care.
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This regulation outlines the activities of the Army Medical Department (AMEDD) Patient Safety Program (PSP) to identify and centrally report actual and potential events in medical/dental systems and processes and to improve patient safety and healthcare quality throughout the AMEDD.
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3/27/2013
The Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infection (CLABSI) Implementation Guide was created to support the Partnership for Patients, a national initiative sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services to reduce harm in health care facilities.
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2/14/2013
This guide is one of 10 harm-specific guides designed to assist you as you implement identified evidence-based practices to improve patient care.
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2/14/2013
The Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection CAUTI) Implementation Guide was created to support the Partnership for Patients, a national initiative sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services to reduce harm in health care facilities.
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Technical Document
2/14/2013
The Pressure Ulcers Implementation Guide is one of 10 harm-specific guides designed to assist you as you implement identified evidence-based practices to improve patient care.
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2/14/2013
The Surgical Site Infections Implementation Guide is one of 10 harm-specific guides designed to assist you as you implement identified evidence-based practices to improve patient care.
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