Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety

Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety

Strategic Alliance Overview

Background

The Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety (MAPS) was established in 2000 as an all-volunteer coalition,and has evolved to a small but stable 501c3 nonprofit, incorporated in 2012with an executive director, part time operational support and temporary, expert staff to oversee MAPS projects. At its creation in 2000, MAPS was focused on safety in the acute care setting.However, when MAPS incorporated, it did so with a deliberate expansion of its strategic focus to embrace safety across the continuum.

MAPS has over 100 member organizations from across the health care continuum and across the state. MAPS’ vision is “safe care everywhere”, and seeks to scale their efforts through a strategic alliance with another organizationto achieve a broader impact.

In service to their vision, MAPS current strategic priority is to strengthen relationships between patients and their care teams to foster patient safety. MAPSfocuses on multiple levels of engagement (from direct care, to organizational design, to policy), and focuses on factors influencing engagement (patient beliefs, literacy, education, organizational policies, culture and best practices) and society (social norms, expectations, regulations, and policy).MAPS is seeking a willing partner that could enhance MAPS’programmatic and operational capacitiesand help advance the safety vision. This document provides an overview of MAPS key organizational assets and the main goals MAPS hopes to accomplish through a strategic alliance/partnership including the desired characteristics and capabilities of an ally.

MAPS Key Organizational Assets

• Leadership:
• Board of directors are top leaders from diverse healthcare-related organizations
• Staff expertise in patient safety
• 15-year history of patient safety engagement and accomplishments

• Stable membership base of more than 100 consumers, providers, associations, insurers, hospitals, health systems, long term care organizations, government agencies, and private corporations
• Maintains trust through neutrality between consumers, government, and providers (i.e., MAPS does not want to be confined to hospital patient safety alone, nor perform regulatory functions)

MAPS Partnership Goals

• Gain administrative efficiencies
• Strengthen relationships between individuals and their care teams to foster safe care

Desired Partner Characteristics

• Not for profit alignment
• Collaborative
• Willing to invest in working toward MAPS vision of Safe Care Everywhere
• Long-term interest in strengthening relationships between individuals and their care teams to foster safe care
• Ability to build trust and maintain neutrality through sensitivity to real and perceived biases or conflicts of interest

Desired Partner Capabilities

Programmatic

• Connection or ability to connect to consumer interests

Operational

• Finance and accounting
• IT Support
• Communications, especially social media
• Event planning solutions
• Contract management
• Funding development including grant and membership