Who We Are

MAPS PSO is a non-profit organization that strives to be the leading PSO for Illinois healthcare organizations. Through our affiliation with IHA, we offer expertise and insight into the challenges facing healthcare providers across the state. MAPS PSO leverages that insight to deliver a comprehensive program to enhance patient safety and quality healthcare for all patients. MAPS PSO offers members opportunities to exceed standards of quality care through expert clinical staff and services. We focus on PSO education, strong patient-focused operations, and performance improvement.

What Drives Us

We’re committed to our members. They drive us to achieve an exceptional patient safety program that supports their efforts to enhance quality care and patient safety. Helping healthcare organizations realize better results for their patients is at the heart of what we do. We are also driven by a desire to provide patients with the best care possible. Safer care and optimal health outcomes matter to all of us. 

What We Do

MAPS PSO helps healthcare organizations promote and foster a culture of safety and create a secure environment where patient safety event information can be collected, aggregated, and analyzed to identify and reduce the risks and hazards associated with patient care. We also support our members with the information and requirements they need to know to develop operational plans for Patient Safety Evaluation System policies and Patient Safety Work Product in order to maximize the privileges afforded by the federal Patient Safety Act.

The MAPS Advantage

MAPS PSO provides full privileges and confidentiality, secure adverse event data-collection solutions, peer networking and learning, and educational resources to improve patient care. Joining MAPS PSO would fulfill a key requirement of the Affordable Care Act while benefiting your facility in numerous ways. 

Key benefits:

• Full privilege and confidentiality protections for MAPS-reported events
• Peer and professional insights into why patient safety events occur and how to prevent them
• Newsletters, webinars and conference calls discussing trends, lessons learned and best practices
• Supportive training and expertise to complement your Patient Safety Evaluation System policies and staff needs

Education and other deliverables:

• Confidential Safe Table events
• Culture of Safety Workshops 
• Annual Patient Safety Focus: Top 10 Issues white paper
• Educational webinars and Legal updates
• MAPS PSO Coordinator calls
• Patient Safety Alerts and E-newsletter

By joining MAPS your facility would be part of an active PSO community of like-minded patient safety professionals. Learn how MAPS PSO can support your efforts to enhance patient safety.

To learn more about MAPS PSO, contact us at 630-276-5657 or MAPSHELP@team-iha.org.