PreP 4 Patient Safety is a pilot project funded by a contract with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) which provides tools for state medical and nursing boards to work with hospitals and other health care organizations to identify, remediate and monitor health care practitioners (now limited to physicians and nurses) with deficiencies that do not rise to the level of disciplinary action. This improves patient safety by allowing organizations and licensing boards to work together to identify providers with clinical deficiencies in a non-punitive environment.

if you'd like to know more about the Institute of Medicine's Error In Medicine Report, and other basics of the patient safety movement, this is the place to find out...we even have annotated links for you to visit other patient-safety sites.

this section of the site outlines the basic elements of all PREP 4 Patient Safety pilot programs, and has background information on introducing the PREP 4 Patient Safety program concept to your Board or healthcare organization.

this is the place to get information about how other State Medical and Nursing Boards have "customized" PreP 4 patient Safety to meet the realities of their own states. You can review and download documents you'll need to implement PreP 4 Patient Safety, from CAC and other states.

subscribe to our e-mail technical assistance bulletin, view back issues, discuss problems or solutions in implementing and managing PreP 4 Patient Safety, and get information on remediation resources, all from this section of the web site, or contact us for information you don't find here