In this Issue:
- Mapping our Future - Notes from the Interim Executive Director
- Upcoming 2018 MAPS Conference: Early Bird Deadline Sept. 11
- MAPS Strategic Work Plan Update: (1) Include Always: Community Conversations for Safe Care, (2) Engagement through Social Media and (3) Special Projects
- Thank you to Member Supporters
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Mapping our Future - Notes from the Interim Executive Director
Soon after joining the Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety (MAPS) in June, I could tell I was in an organization that is having a significant impact on health care safety. I’ve spent over 10 years working to improve patient safety; in federal government on the East Coast, in the private sector on the West Coast, and in multiple health systems in the Twin Cities metro area. Leading MAPS is one of the first times that I’ve experienced the joy and success of truly partnering with patients, residents, and families to improve safety. With this engagement, we are well-positioned to have an impact on the safety of care delivery in our Minnesota care community.
Excitement is brewing within MAPS because of a very intentional, new direction towards which we are headed. On this path, MAPS will support and motivate our health care communities to
Include Always
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We are charting a new course to engage patients, residents, and families in the safety improvement dialogue by elevating their voices for safety in all settings of care. Clinicians, leaders, and health care staff rightfully spend a great deal of resources and time to improve the safety of care. Let’s add to their knowledge another set of expert voices for making care safer – our patients, families, and residents. MAPS is supporting our health care communities to breathe new life into the phrase “nothing about us without us.” I invite you to learn more by reading about our
“Include Always: Community Conversations for Safe Care”
program. We're pleased to share we've already successfully hosted this program and it resulted in return invitations and even new patient volunteers for MAPS.
In addition to a strong strategic direction, MAPS is celebrating its successful first year as a subsidiary of Stratis Health. The goal for Stratis Health and MAPS to work together toward a common vision to advance safe care everywhere is being achieved both in the daily interactions of teams, as well as on broader collaborative projects. New collaborative work is kicking off in 2019 in preventing diagnostic error and expanding the use of open clinical notes into new care settings. Our two organizations strengthen each other’s capacity to advance patient safety across the care continuum. MAPS is grateful for the expertise and deep health care community roots of Stratis Health.
Finally, I warmly invite you and your teams to attend MAPS’ conference Oct. 25-26. It is shaping up to be one of the best yet. Bring your patient partners and advisors, as well as your frontline staff who are in safety-champion roles. I look forward to seeing you there.
We sincerely appreciate the support of our health care systems and communities to make our safety engagement and improvement work possible.
− Catherine Hinz, MHA
Interim Executive Director
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Early Bird Registration Ends September 11.
October 25 & 26, 2018
Minneapolis Marriott Northwest
The theme this year is “Reigniting our Passion for Safe Care”. The five general session speakers and 12 breakout sessions will cover a wide range of topics around patient safety, patient and family engagement, and other related and timely issues.
Conference brochure and registration information.
Please note the discounted rate for patients, family members, and residents, as we warmly welcome all those within our care communities. This includes those who serve as patient partners, advisors, or roles like chairs of resident councils.
We strongly encourage attendees from across all care settings including acute care, post-acute care (skilled nursing, short-term rehab, assisted living, adult day services), and ambulatory (clinic and specialty practices).
Early Bird Registration Special Deadline: Sept. 11 (next week)
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MAPS Strategic Work Plan Update
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This Minnesota movement is changing the way people think and talk about patient safety and medical errors, as well as take action to prevent them. Developed by MAPS, we are helping our health care community understand why medical errors are a public health issue, and how these errors affect health care delivery systems, clinicians and health care workers, and patients/families/residents. Working on the same team, we can make a difference to improve health care safety.
Schedule your Patient Safety Information Session, an in-person experience run by MAPS staff. Safety specialist Catherine Hinz and patient engagement specialist Lisa Juliar can help your board, leaders and medical staff, quality/safety committees, and patient/family advisory councils (PFACs) better understand the state of safety and how patients and families can be engaged to improve care. We aim to:
- Create an understanding of patient safety and why errors occur in our complex environment.
- Identify why it is important to include patients and families in work that has an impact on quality and safety.
- Practice in your role as expert partners in safe care delivery.
We can come to your regularly scheduled meetings and will modify timing and activities as appropriate to meet your needs. Participants will leave with a certificate of attendance. Currently available free to members. Email
MAPS
to start planning your Patient Safety Information Session.
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Engagement through Social Media
The effort to Include Always to improve health care safety is active on social media. Like and follow for tips on engagement, notice of events, news articles, and general information on patient, resident, and family engagement topics.
Please like us on
Facebook
and follow us on Instagram and Twitter @includealways.
Special Projects
MAPS is planning for significant work in 2019 in the areas of (1) diagnostic error research and prevention, (2) partnering to expand the use of open clinical notes into new care settings, and (3) participating in collaborative discussions to advance a culture of safety in aging services, among other safety initiatives.
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Thank You Member Supporters!
We sincerely thank all of the organizations who support MAPS. Please see our
website
for a complete list of current MAPS member supporters.
Please be on the lookout later this year for your invitation to support and partner with MAPS in 2019.
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