About Us

Mission Statement

To advance quality care and prevent patient harm.

Vision Statement

Everyone knows their health care is safe.

Mission

To help improve health care quality in Michigan through cost-effective improvements in patient safety, including medical errors, across all health care settings.

Goals

Provide leadership and share knowledge on patient safety issues in Michigan.
Develop and/or support systemic approaches to identifying and learning from errors with a focus on continuous improvement.
Encourage the establishment of performance standards for patient safety, medical error reporting and continuous improvement; and encourage the provision of positive incentives for improved performance.
Support a culture of safety by encouraging the implementation of safety systems in health care organizations.

Membership

MH&SC membership is diverse, and includes representatives from health care plans, health care providers, employer and consumer groups and the Michigan Department of Community Health . The coalition anticipates the need to work with other entities and experts (academics, legislators, legal, systems, and data analysts) to carry out the actions specified by the coalition.

Activities

The coalition’s work is focused on:

implementing the State Commission on Patient Safety recommendations
convening collaborative workgroups focused on targeted patient safety practices based on performance data collected in Michigan and national patient safety surveys
coordination of patient safety activities with other groups – such as health care information technology - to help communicate issues related to patient safety to key stakeholders and the public and avoid duplication of effort.

Bylaws

View our bylaws as a PDF file.