DoD Patient Safety Program eBulletin - March/April 2018 [HTML]

The Department of Defense Patient Safety Program eBulletin delivers patient safety updates, news, useful tips and resources to help you deliver the highest quality of care to your patients. This month, preview the Patient Safety Awareness activities and events, learn about one military treatment facility’s leading practices to improve their culture of safety, and learn how the National Capital Region is contributing to the high reliability transformation.

Contents

Announcements/Reminders

Feature: Patient Safety Awareness Week 2018

Patient Safety in Action: Fort Belvoir Community Hospital Customizes Leading Practices to Advance Quality and Safety of Care

HRO Corner: A Tri-Service Market Approach to Advancing Quality and High Reliability

DoD PSP Treasure Chest: March/April Edition

MHS Patient Safety Data Snapshot

MHS Patient Safety Spotlight

Upcoming Events

• In March, the Military Health System’s theme is National Brain Injury Awareness Month. Learn more about this theme.
• Patient Safety Awareness Week is almost here! Join us March 11-17, 2018. Please visit our PSAW web page for more information.
• National Doctor’s Day, National Healthcare Decisions Day and Medical Lab Professionals Week are among other awareness celebrations that are coming up. Follow the PSP Facebook page for related content.
• The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) Patient Safety Congress is May 23-25 in Boston. Learn more.
• The next eBulletin will publish in May 2018.
• Do you have questions about the Continuing Education process? We can help! E-mail us.
• Do you have an update from your facility? We’re always looking for good news stories and would love to hear from you! If you’d like to share an update, please contact us via e-mail or Facebook and one of our team members will contact you.

Feature: Patient Safety Awareness Week 2018

Many events and activities happening during 2018 Patient Safety Awareness Week for both health care professionals and patients to engage and learn more about patient safety. Read more 

Patient Safety in Action: Fort Belvoir Community Hospital Customizes Leading Practices to Advance Quality and Safety of Care

Fort Belvoir Community Hospital staff have customized leading practices for improving a culture of safety and made them their own. Read more

HRO Corner: A Tri-Service Market Approach to Advancing Quality and High Reliability

The National Capital Region military treatment facilities across all three services collaborate on quality improvement programs that help advance the Military Health System toward high reliability. Read more

DoD PSP Treasure Chest: March/April Edition

Welcome to the March/April edition of the DoD PSP Treasure Chest! Each issue, we share 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 for our committed MHS patient safety champions! Read more

MHS Patient Safety Data Snapshot

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

This publication provides an MHS enterprise-level snapshot of trends in SEs and JPSR events so that providers and health care administrators can help identify areas for patient safety improvement in their facility and throughout the MHS.

Visit the Patient Safety Learning Center* to access the latest MHS Patient Safety Data Snapshot, available on the 15th of every month.

*Please visit the Patient Safety Analysis Center page to access and download this publication. 

MHS Patient Safety Spotlight

The MHS Patient Safety Spotlight is a 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.

Visit the Patient Safety Learning Center* to access the latest MHS Patient Safety Spotlight, available on the 15th of every month.

*Please visit the Patient Safety Analysis Center page to access and download this publication.

Patient Safety Learning Circles:

In-person or web-based forums focused on a specific topic

TeamSTEPPS^® Webinar – American Hospital Association (AHA)

Please check our Calendar of Events for updates on this webinar.

The Joint Commission

There are multiple opportunities to attend accreditation and certification webinars offered by The Joint Commission.

Learn more

Mindfulness and Patient Safety – Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

March 8, 2018 from 2-3 p.m. EST

Learn more

Social Media in Healthcare: Lessons for the Digital World #KnowRisks #FindOpportunities – ECRI Institute

March 22, 2018 from 1-2 p.m. EDT

For more information on registering for this webinar, please e-mail TQMC@ECRI.org or call (610) 825-6000, ext. 5800.

Mobility Matters for Age-Friendly Care – Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

March 22, 2018 from 2-3 p.m. EDT

Learn more