MARYLAND PATIENT SAFETY CENTER INC

Programs

1. Healthcare workplace violence - the governor and the maryland general assembly provided funding to create a public service campaign to educate our fellow marylanders about the risks that many healthcare workers face every day as they care for our families, friends and neighbors. The request of the maryland general assembly was for the maryland patient safety center to implement the public relations campaign. The campaign was developed in collaboration with the maryland health care commission and the maryland hospital association.

   $719,479 spent
   34% of program spending

2. Annual patient safety conference - the annual patient safety conference brings together over 850 healthcare professionals and nationally recognized speakers and presenters to learn and exchange best practices related to current issues in patient safety.

   $448,557 spent$113,583 earned by the program
   21% of program spending

3. Education - the maryland patient safety center builds capacity to improve patient safety and quality in maryland via education and outreach, offering conferences, in-person, and virtual educational offerings that help assure that maryland hospitals and other healthcare organizations actively participate each year with the maryland patient safety center.

   $275,513 spent$33,820 earned by the program
   13% of program spending

4. Medication safety - the organization supports hospitals and other healthcare organizations to prevent medication errors and adverse drug events via a conference, other educational offerings and programs.

   $107,761 spent$4,187 earned by the program
   5% of program spending

5. Patient safety consultation - the organization offers a comprehensive approach to patient safety improvement. The consultant program offers mpsc experts to do more in-depth, organization-specific review indicators and other data, as well as key policies and use of evidence-based patient safety tools and interventions, quality and patient safety structures. These offerings will help impact change in acute and non-acute facilities for safety and quality for all patients.

   $75,043 spent$40,988 earned by the program
   4% of program spending

6. Perinatal/neonatal collaborative - the collaborative is designed to support hospitals and other outpatient or community settings addressing foundational issues related to perinatal and neonatal safety and quality, including safe standards, teamwork, communication, and other evidence-based interventions.

   $120,995 spent$93,690 earned by the program
   6% of program spending

7. Caring for the caregiver - this program is based on the johns hopkins hospital peer support program for healthcare providers known as the resilience in stressful events or rise program. A "train the trainer" model with support and coaching from the rise staff, this program provides timely support to healthcare employees who are "second victims" of stressful, often patient-related events.

   $158,845 spent$165,250 earned by the program
   7% of program spending

8. Adverse event reporting - the organization partners with healthcare providers in maryland to collect and analyze data on adverse events and near misses. The data are used to explore patterns and trends related to patient safety.

   $69,346 spent
   3% of program spending

9. Maternal mortality review (mmr)-the organization provides administration for the maternal mortality review program for the maryland department of health. The grant-funded work includes the request for records, abstraction of data, preparation of case reviews, entry of data into the database, and coordination of mmr meetings. The organization also convened an annual maternal mortality summit to share knowledge and best practices.

   $5,004 spent$5,243 earned by the program
   0% of program spending

10. Maternal health equity - the maryland patient safety center supports state health improvement goals to improve safety and equity for mothers and babies with education and improvement programs addressing pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality and perinatal and neonatal safety. One such program, b.I.r.t.h. Equity maryland, includes tools for non-obstetric providers to address the substantial disparity in maternal morbidity rate for black-and all-- birthing people in maryland.

    $3,000 spent
    0% of program spending

11. Continum of care - the mpsc envisions a future where healthcare is safe and equitable for every patient, family member, and healthcare worker, across the care continuum. This is an area of strategic development for mpsc. This program will perform development and outreach for programs and services in non-acute hospital settings (e.g. Urgent care centers, post-acute care settings, etc.). In fy25, this included convening urgent care centers across the state around improving pediatric sepsis recognition and treatment protocols; highlighting work around reducing readmissions for patients recovering from sepsis by using a protocol in conjunction with post-acute care facilities; assessing the root causes of calls to 911 from assisted living facilities; and reporting findings from our statewide collaborative to illuminate surface contamination in long-term care facilities.

    $68,834 spent
    3% of program spending

12. Maternal health innovation program (mdmom and mhip) - the maryland maternal health innovation program (mdmom) aims to improve maternal health across the state of maryland by coordinating innovation in the areas of maternal health data, training and resource availability. Mdmom is a collaboration between johns hopkins university, maryland department of health and the maryland patient safety center. It is funded by the health resources and services administration. The maryland patient safety center has been-and has been recently renewed-- a grantee under the mdmom maternal health innovation program.

    $67,658 spent
    3% of program spending

13. Other - includes a wide range of consulting and advisory services on various topics.

    $348,761 earned by the program

The 13 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,120,035.