MAPS PSO Patient Safety Champion

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others. - Lewis Carol

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!

Utilize our Program to Support Your Staff and Patient Safety Efforts!

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 & beyond in their role to ensure patients are safe

Announcing 2023 MAPS PSO Patient Safety Champions

OSF HealthCare Sacred Heart Medical Center

Tessa Pacion, RN

Fairfield Memorial Hospital

Front row left: Jennifer Young
Front row middle: Hattie Schoepf

Front row right: Rachel Jennings

Back row left: Luke McDaniel
Back row right: Merri Corbett-Mercer
Not pictured: Bobby Bridgeman, Dawn Murbarger

NEW for 2023!

MAPS PSO 2023 Patient Safety Ambassador
Kristie McDaniel - Ferrell Hospital
Retha Elston - KSB Hospital

Patient Safety Champion Honorable Mention 2021

OSF Home Care was acknowledged as an honorable mention for a "great catch" in identifying the need for a medication clarification to safely discharge a patient. Kelley Messmer's discovery prevented a patient from developing irreversable kidney damage.

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

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

Please select your nomination category:

Individual Nominee
Team Nomination

MAPS PSO Organization:

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Email Address of Nominee:

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List full names of team members using semicolons between names:

Nominee Supervisor's Name:

Nominee Supervisor's Email:

Name of Nominator:

Nominator's Email:

MAPS PSO Coordinator's Name:

MAPS PSO Coordinator Email:

Brief Description of the "good catch" or patient safety improvement project:

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Past Recipients Include!

2022 Patient Safety Champion
OSF Health Care
McDonough District Hospital

2021 Patient Safety Champion
FHN Memorial Hospital
Northwestern Medicine - Lake Forest Hospital

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

Each annual Patient Safety Champion recipient is recognized at the MAPS Annual Culture of Safety Workshop in October. Awardees are acknowledged in a press release from IHA and featured on the IHA and MAPS website. They 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 customized trophy and a certificate to display their pride in outstanding patient safety efforts.