About the Department of Quality, Safety and Risk Prevention
The Department of Quality, Safety and Risk Prevention (QSRP) equips and empowers Vanderbilt Health faculty and staff at our Main Campus, Regional Hospitals and Ambulatory Divisions to offer care that is safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable and patient-centered.
We are focused on providing high-quality care at Vanderbilt Health through doing the right thing for our patients to reach desired health outcomes while also preventing errors or adverse events and reducing risks. The various teams within QSRP foster knowledge sharing to extend best practice use, reduce variability and facilitate improvements in outcomes throughout our health system.
QSRP is focused on strengthening Vanderbilt Health’s mission of personalizing the patient experience through our caring spirit and distinctive capabilities through our QSRP Strategic Plan.
Our Strategic Plan is comprised of the following domains:
- High Quality Care: Integrated, patient-centered, evidence-based, high-quality care for all
- Safety and Accountability: Quality, safety and healthcare improvement by each team member
- High Reliability: Safe, effective, efficient, high value and reliable processes
- Improvement Science: Innovate, research, share, teach and translate improvement science
- Excellence: Pursuit of excellence amongst national top performers in quality and patient safety
Please look around our site to learn more about QSRP or contact us with any questions.
Sincerely,
Jenny M. Slayton, DNP, RN
Senior Vice President
Quality, Safety and Risk Prevention