The Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA) Patient Safety Excellence Award honors superior performance in preventing adverse health events. The award is given to hospitals that are actively participating in one of MHA's safety campaigns - SAFE from FALLS, SAFE SKIN, SAFE COUNT, and SAFE SITE - and achieve 90 percent or higher of campaign roadmap steps.

Each quarter, participating hospitals measure their progress in implementing the roadmaps. Hospitals qualify if they reach the 90 percent benchmark during that timeframe. For this round of winners, issued in January 2010 and publicized in March), 28 hospitals earned the recognition. Each quarter MHA, will announce any new qualifiers.

"Hospitals that receive these awards are to be commended - the bar is set very high," said MHA Patient Safety Vice President Tania Daniels. "Hospitals that qualify have achieved measurable and meaningful progress toward implementing best practices to drive down adverse health events."

Hospital Winners
Click for a list of current and past award-winning hospitals in each safety category: [DOC]. More information about each campaign is located below.

SAFE SKIN Hospitals winning SAFE SKIN awards: [DOC] Excellence Awards fact sheet: [DOC]. SAFE SKIN fact sheet: [DOC] SAFE SKIN Campaign road map: [PDF] SAFE from FALLS Hospitals winning SAFE from FALLS awards: [DOC] Excellence Awards fact sheet: [DOC]. SAFE from FALLS fact sheet: [DOC] SAFE from FALLS Campaign road map: [PDF] SAFE SITE Hospitals winning SAFE SITE awards: [DOC] Excellence Awards fact sheet: [DOC]. SAFE SITE fact sheet: [DOC] SAFE SITE Campaign road map: [PDF] SAFE COUNT Hospitals winning SAFE COUNT awards: [DOC] Excellence Awards fact sheet: [DOC]. SAFE COUNT fact sheet: [DOC] SAFE COUNT Campaign road map: [PDF] (Click here to view some of the award winner photos.)