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Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality

Our Work Within Johns Hopkins Medicine

The Armstrong Institute was created to reduce preventable harm, patient outcomes and experiences reduce waste in healthcare delivery.

Within Johns Hopkins Medicine, we help coordinate safety and quality improvement efforts across our corporate health system, such as programs to reduce preventable complications and infections to symposiums to discuss recent developments in patient safety research. While some of these efforts are focused on internal audiences, many of these events and programs are open to those outside of Johns Hopkins Medicine.

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Speaking Events | Education, Training and Healthcare Delivery Solutions | Awards

Clinical Operations

The Clinical Operations team at The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality is focused on ensuring and supporting the safest and highest quality of care throughout Johns Hopkins Medicine.

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Speaking Events

The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality hosts events throughout the year on a variety of topics related to patient safety, quality and experience. These conferences, symposiums and grand rounds present novel research developments within the patient safety and quality field. Through these events, we aim to bolster the collective knowledge of clinicians within Johns Hopkins Medicine and around the world and improve healthcare outcomes for all patients.

Conferences, Symposiums and Summits

These events are held annually and cover a broad spectrum of topics related to patient safety and quality, including venous thromboembolism, inpatient hospital activity and mobility and diagnostic excellence.

Grand Rounds Series

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The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality’s Grand Rounds Series is a recurring event, each focusing on a particular patient safety and quality topic with keynote presentations from experts from around the world.

Education, Training and Healthcare Delivery Solutions

The Armstrong Institute offers a range of educational courses, programs and solutions that are available to healthcare professionals everywhere. These services aim to empower clinicians through curriculum and partnerships on patient care, research workflows, reporting systems, teamwork and communication and how to establish programs to help patients and clinicians.

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Patient Safety Awards

E. Robert Feroli Award

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The E. Robert Feroli Award for Excellence in Medication Safety commemorates the innumerable ways Bob has made patients safer at Johns Hopkins Hospital, throughout the Johns Hopkins Health System and across the world. This annual award presented by the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at the annual Quality, Safety, and Service Summit acknowledges an individual or group from the Johns Hopkins Health System for their outstanding work on a project or initiative that resulted in a significant and sustainable systems changes that improve the safety and quality of the medication-use process.

Sean Berenholtz Award

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Dr. Sean Berenholtz was an esteemed professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality for Johns Hopkins Medicine. Sadly, Sean lost his life to pancreatic cancer in 2024.  He helped found the Armstrong Institute and made an indelible mark on the field of patient safety, quality and service and we are committed to carrying on his legacy.

In Sean’s honor, the Armstrong Institute has created the Sean Berenholtz Award to recognize colleagues who embody the values that he modeled and applied in his everyday work as a person, colleague, mentor and healthcare provider.