Patient Safety
Our Commitment to Safety
Your safety is our priority at our hospitals in San Antonio, Texas. Our goal is to make you feel safe and secure while you are a patient in one of our hospitals. Every member of our staff is dedicated to:
- Providing you with a safe, healthy and secure environment
- Performing their jobs carefully and completely
- Using safe and effective practice and technologies
- Responding to your wants and needs in a timely manner
- Ensuring timely communications between caregivers and patients by answering questions about your treatment and your health, providing you with specific information about your care and explaining changes about your treatment
MHS's Organizational Mission is to promote and support the health status of the community by providing and constantly improving the delivery of quality, innovative healthcare services in a cost-effective way, while providing charitable care to people in our region. Our vision is greatness for Methodist Healthcare System by "Serving Humanity to Honor God."
Patient Safety Goals
Our standard of commitment is to put our patients first, to improve on our processes and technology so we can prevent and detect error in the most efficient manner possible. Our goal is to use data effectively in order to identify and measure improvements.
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices has a web site with information on medication safety alert, error reporting, products and services, self assessment and news & events. Please click here if you would like to view this information: www.ismp.org
Contact us if we can be of further assistance in strengthening our goals towards patient safety at Methodist Healthcare facilities.
