Director's Award for Patient Safety

Purpose

This award recognizes service that has significantly advanced the IHS mission and vision through work focused on the goals and objectives in the IHS Strategic Plan. This work significantly enhanced patient safety through

• Risk recognition, reporting, and mitigation
• Implementation and/ or sustainment of Total System Safety
• Innovation and improvement contributing to the achievement and sustainment of high reliability principles

Eligibility:

All IHS employees or teams of employees, including Tribal employees and contractors. Teams may consist of employees from the same organization or from a number of different organizations.

Criteria:

• Exceptional initiative and leadership in carrying out projects to implement and sustain Total System Safety
• Significant displays of courage in the advancement of a culture of safety through recognition/ reporting of a significant risk to patient safety leading to mitigation or elimination of the identified risk
• Innovation efforts in the implementation of tools that lead to significant improvements in the ability to provide high quality health care and improve health outcomes
• Outstanding contributions towards quality/ process improvement that measurably increased patient safety