MAPS PSO PT. Safety Champion

“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.” – Bob Feller. Perhaps this sounds like a typical day in healthcare.

Midwest Alliance for Patient Safety wants to celebrate staff who go above and beyond! Lift up your staff by nominating them for a MAPS Patient Safety Champion award. Nominations can be submitted year round by the organization's MAPS PSO Coordinator! Each annual Patient Safety Champion recipient will be recognized at the MAPS Annual Culture of Safety Workshop in October. This workshop is our largest event for member organizations to collaborate on improving patient safety and discuss supporting the organization's culture. Awardees will be acknowledged in a press release from IHA and featured on the MAPS website. He or she will also receive an individual patient safety champion trophy, a patient safety champion pin and personalized patient safety champion certificate. The organization is given a larger trophy and a certificate to display their pride in initiating outstanding patient safety efforts.

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We are looking for champions of patient safety who:

Show a passion and commitment to patient safety
Identify opportunities to improve patient safety
Encourage colleagues to practice safe patient care
Exemplify and promote the organizations safety culture
Go above and beyond their role in making sure patients are safe

Patient Safety Champion Honorable Mention of 2020

Pinckneyville Community Hospital (PCH) was recognized as an honorable mention for embracing and supporting the new PCH Good Catch Program. Diedra Restoff, RN embraced training staff to actively report and share good catch learnings.

Pictured left to right: Randall Dauby, CEO; Eva Hopp, CNE; Diedra Restoff, Nurse Manager, Cancer Care and Infusion Clinic; Rachel Grunloh, Quality Coordinator; Blake Thornton, Director of Quality and Risk Management and MAPS PSO Coordinator

Recipients Include!

2020 Patient Safety Champion
Dupage Medical Group

2019 Patient Safety Champion
Rush Copley Medical Center

2018 Patient Safety Champion
Morris Hospitals & Healthcare Centers

2017 Patient Safety Champion
OSF Saint Anthony’s Health Center

Nomination Guidelines: Learn more about the nomination process.

MAPS Coordinator Tips: Consider nominating your patient safety heroes, employees of the month, good catch recipients or quality/risk warriors.

MAPS PSO Patient Safety Champion Nominee Form

Please select your nomination category:	Individual Nominee Team Nomination
MAPS PSO Organization:
Full Name of Individual Nominee:
Title of Nominee:
Email Address of Nominee:
Phone Number of Nominee:
Full Name of Team Nomination:
List full names of team members using semicolons between names:
Nominee Supervisor's Name:
Supervisor's email address:
MAPS PSO Coordinator's Name:
MAPS PSO Coordinator Email:
Brief Description of the "good catch" or patient safety improvement project:	Maximum of 500 characters.
Upload file:

Thank you for submitting your nomination. Please note that the form description is limited to 500 characters. We are requesting that you upload a file to provide additional details. Feel free to send us an email directly with any additional information to Crystal Lathen at clathen@team-iha.org. Our MAPS PSO team will contact you with any questions. We appreciate your commitment to patient safety.

If you have any additional questions, please contact Carrie Pinasco at 630-276-5845 or Crystal Lathen at 630-276-5544.

Patient Safety Champion Program