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, awarded in April, 25 hospitals earned the recognition. Each quarter MHA will announce any new qualifiers (the next round of winners is due to be announced in August).

"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."

Click here for a current list of award-winning hospitals for each category. More information about each campaign is located on the bottom of the Web page.