Med Safety structure in a multi-hospital health system

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Fri, 10/14/2016 - 13:56
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Karin Terry
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Med Safety structure in a multi-hospital health system

I was the Medication Safety Officer at the largest hospital in our system, and I was the only medication safety officer in our system. We just went through structure changes, and I am now over medication safety at all of our hospitals.
I'm trying to get ideas on how best to tackle communication, process improvement, etc.

I was hoping to get some feedback regarding the structure of medication safety programs at other Health Systems with multiple hospitals. If you have any insight into this, I would greatly appreciate it!

For example:
-Does each facility have a facility-based MSO or liaison that reports to the System based MSO?

-Is there just one med safety officer for the entire system?

-How is information regarding events/near misses shared from one hospital to another within the same system for learning purposes?

-Are there multiple layers of Medication Safety at the System level?

-Any other information you want to share?

Thanks!
Karin Terry
OSF Healthcare
Peoria, IL

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