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The I AM Patient Safety award is an annual contest that recognizes and celebrates healthcare staff for their individual or collective commitment to and influences on patient safety. It is a chance for us to celebrate the things that go right each day in healthcare to make our patients safer. We will also highlight two runners-up in each category to honor more patient safety heroes for their extraordinary work. We at the Patient Safety Authority (PSA) invite you to nominate individuals or teams who have made a difference in patient safety.

​Award Categories

    Executive Director's Choice

       1.    Ambulatory Care/Surgery Facility 

• The winner will be an individual or a team who advanced surgical safety

  • ​Examples include developing an innovative intervention to prevent surgical site infections, creating a process to prevent wrong-site surgeries, and involving patients in an improvement project

      2.    Improving Diagnosis

• The winner will be an individual or a team who enhanced the diagnostic process or made considerable effort to reduce diagnostic error​ ​
  • ​Examples include improving patient/family communication around the diagnostic process; expanding the diagnostic team with nonproviders, e.g., nurses, therapists, techs, and patients; crafting technological solutions to reduce misdiagnosis; and improving the diagnosis and management of a medical condition
    

      3.    Individual Impact

• The winner will be an individual who made a significant impact on a patient or their facility​
  • ​Examples include taking steps to provide exceptional patient care, providing a heartfelt moment for a patient/colleague, creating a fun/innovative care environment, and stories that makes you say “Wow!"​

      4.    Long-Term Care Facility 

• The winner will be an individual or a team who advanced patient safety at a long-term care facility 
• ​Examples include identifying and communicating a safety concern, initiating a new program/process to prevent infections, involving residents in a patient safety initiative, and reducing the rate of a healthcare-associated infection or other safety-related metric

      5.    Nationwide Warriors

• Open to any individual or team in the United States    
• The winner will be an individual or a team who went above and beyond to advance patient safety, developed innovative harm reduction strategies, or created a nurturing care environment for their patients

      6.     Physician Offices

• Open to medical offices independently licensed or part of a larger health system
• The winner will be an individual or a team who demonstrated the importance of patient safety in the physician office setting

      7.     Safety Story

             Near misses are circumstances that could have caused patient harm but did not 

•  The winner will be an individual or a team who intervened before an injury occurred
• Examples include reporting an event that catalyzed facilitywide change, implementing a new inspection process following equipment failure, and identifying a potentially catastrophic situation

      8.     Sepsis

• The winner will be an individual or a team who advanced the diagnosis or treatment of sepsis
• Examples include developing a new/better process for early recognition, creating a more robust treatment model, and implementing a successful initiative to reduce sepsis mortality

     9.     Time-Outs

• The winner will be an individual or a team who best used or innovated time-outs
• Examples include using a time-out to prevent an adverse event, implementing bedside/procedural time-outs, and innovating surgical time-outs

     10.    Transparency and Safety in Healthcare

• The winner will be an individual or a team who improved transparency to advance patient safety
• Examples include demonstrating commitment to transparency by leadership, broadly disseminating lessons learned from an event, designing and implementing a new process to link disclosure and system improvement, and employing an integrated team approach to safety and transparency 

Judging

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Judges select individuals and teams from nominations, submitted by healthcare facilities throughout Pennsylvania and throughout the country, for their individual and/or team commitment to imprving patient safety.

• Evident commitment to patient safety
• Focus on high-level changes (for example, barriers and forced functions) and replicability
• Indicative of strong patient safety culture in the facility
• Initiative taken by individual/group

Past Winners

2022 Patient Safety Winners​

2021 Patient Safety Winners 

2020 Patient Safety Winners 

2019 Patient Safety Winners

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