OPSI Best Practice Award

 

Created by the Ohio Patient Safety Institute’s (OPSI) Board of Trustees, the OPSI Best Practice Award recognizes a program that has demonstrated a focus on improving patient safety in a health care setting, while incorporating regional and national patient safety benchmarks and remaining unique to the Ohio health care market.

 

The OPSI Best Practice Award is presented annually to an Ohio health care provider. The 2013 awards will be presented at OHA's Quality Summit at the OHA Annual Meeting on June 12, 2013 in Columbus.  

 

The goals of this award are to recognize outstanding efforts among Ohio health care providers who:

 

-Improve patient safety

-Develop innovative programs to improve patient safety

-Create best practices for other Ohio health care providers

-Develop a culture of collaboration that improves patient safety

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An award committee will review all applications and select the award recipient, subject to approval by the OPSI Board of Trustees.  View Award Criteria

 

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All submissions become the property of the Ohio Patient Safety Institute and may be used in OPSI's Learning Library activities to share best practices.

 


 

 

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Congratulations 2012 Winners:

 

Riverside Methodist Hospital

Implemented an innovative program to prevent infections that occur from the use of a device in neurosurgery that relieves raised intracranial pressure and hydrocephalus. Read more

 

Summa Akron City Hospital

Implemented a program to improve the safety of induction and augmentation of labor, which account for over half of all births at most institutions. Read more

2011 Winner
University Hospitals Case Medical Center
Implementation of a program to
equip medical residents with improved experience and skills in quality and safety initiatives.

2010 Winner
Aultman Hospital
Reduction of catheter-associated blood stream infections in the NICU

2009 Winner
The Children's Medical Center of Dayton
Designed and implemented a Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) program in the pediatric population

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  • Implementation plansurable goal established, maintained and sustained
     

  • Regional and national benchmarks researched; identified
     

  • Replicability
     

  • Partnerships and multidisciplinary approach