Training and Events

Patient Safety Training

Patient safety is defined as “the absence of preventable harm to a patient and reduction of risk of unnecessary harm associated with health care to an acceptable minimum.” According to the World Health Organization, approximately one in every ten patients is harmed in health care and more than 3 million deaths occur annually due to unsafe care. The Maryland Patient Safety Center convenes key stakeholders, provides education, and facilitates opportunities for networking and collaboration with the purpose of building workforce capacity to improve healthcare quality and patient safety.

Everyone plays a role in creating environments, processes and systems that support safe patient care. MPSC will help to ensure that the tools for patient safety and quality are made available to a wide audience, including patient safety officers, healthcare leaders, as well as front-line nurses, physicians, staff, and other members of the care team. Register for the courses and events below to learn implementable, effective, and practical applications for healthcare workers to improve patient safety systems and processes.

Patient Safety Forums

Patient Safety Forums provide an opportunity to come together on key topics in patient safety, to learn, share and exchange best practices and implementation challenges. Forums include a one-hour presentation, followed by 30-minutes of facilitated discussion, and a post-event Maryland Patient Safety Center Learning in Action document.

Patient Safety Forums are open and FREE to MPSC members only and are held virtually 1:00 – 2:30pm EST.

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Additional events, webinars, forums, and protected roundtable discussions available in three high-priority areas of focus:

Click Here for Emergency Department Courses

Click Here for Perinatal/Neonatal Courses

Click Here Medication Safety Courses

July 8-10, 2025 · Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification

The Lean Sigma Black Belt course and certification is intended for Lean Six Sigma Green Belts who have demonstrated their knowledge initiating and completing at least one project. In the Lean Sigma Black Belt course, these participants will gain further knowledge to lead efforts to reduce process variations and improve results.

The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt course requires pre-requisites for participation. Each interested participant must submit in at least two weeks prior to the scheduled course–and receive approval from the course instructor.

Submit proof of your Green Belt Certification to MPSC along with the detailed project details below.

- Project Charter
- Show Baseline Data, Benchmark or Target Data, Outcome and Process Metrics
- Show Bar or line graph with baseline data, last three months data to show the progress with trend line. Also draw the target line.
- Process Maps – current and future
- Gap Analysis – identify gaps and probable solutions
- Test of Changes / Pilot Runs in Bar Graphs / Line Graphs
- Implementation Plan
- Communication Plan
- Prepare a 40+ slide presentation, “Introduction to Lean Six Sigma”

Once the above documentation has been received, reviewed and approved by the Lean Sigma Black Belt instructor, the participant will be provided the registration link. Approval is at the sole discretion of the Lean Sigma Black Belt instructor, who will maintain industry standards, and not be unreasonably withheld.

MPSC Members: $799 I Non-Members: $1,500

MPSC operates a listserv for healthcare professionals with an interest in patient safety. The listserv offers a network for shared and experiential learning and is used by MPSC to share upcoming events and information specific to safety in this specialty. MPSC members may use the listserv to pose questions to the group in order to garner feedback, solutions, and gain consensus on topics related to quality care delivery, adverse events, and general patient safety policies and procedures. Please contact mpsc@marylandpatientsafety.org to be enrolled.