Institute for Safe Medication Practices
Institute for Safe Medication Practices
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More about this organization
Mission
See Schedule O The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is the nation's only nonprofit, charitable organization devoted entirely to medication error prevention and safe medication use. It provides independent, proven recommendations for the safe use of medications to healthcare professionals, government agencies, accrediting organizations, the pharmaceutical industry, and consumers.
About
Education:ISMP considers education to be a core component of its mission, and offers a variety of valuable educational resources for healthcare practitioners and consumers, including frequent webinars, continuing education sessions at some of the nation's largest professional meetings, workshops, lectures, posters, videos, and patient brochures. A wide range of free tools for healthcare practitioners, such as lists of high-alert drugs and potentially dangerous abbreviations, are available on www.ismp.org. In addition, ISMP hosts medication safety fellowships and onsite mentoring programs for medication safety officers and international healthcare practitioners. ISMP's consumer website, www.consumermedsafety.org, gives individuals the ability to receive customized safety alerts for the medications they, their family members, and their friends take, along with advice from leading safety experts and information and guidelines on safe medication use.
Interesting data from their 2019 990 filing
The filing specifies the mission of the non-profit as “To advance patient safety worldwide by empowering the healthcare community, including consumers, to prevent medication errors. we accomplish this through our interdisciplinary efforts to: collect and analyze reports of medication-related hazardous conditions, near-misses, errors, and other adverse drug events. disseminate timely medication safety information, risk-reduction tools, and error-prevention strategies. educate the healthcare community and consumers about safe medication practices. collaborate with other patient safety organizations, educational institutions, governmental agencies and other healthcare stakeholders. advocate the adoption of safe medication standards by accrediting bodies, manufacturers, policy makers, regulatory agencies, and standards-setting organizations. conduct research to provide evidence-based safe medication practices.”.
When explaining its duties, they were described as: “See schedule o the institute for safe medication practices (ismp) is the nation's only nonprofit, charitable organization devoted entirely to medication error prevention and safe medication use. it provides independent, proven recommendations for the safe use of medications to healthcare professionals, government agencies, accrediting organizations, the pharmaceutical industry, and consumers.”.
- The state in which the non-profit is authorized to operate legally is PA.
- According to the filing, the address of the non-profit for the year 2019 is 200 Lakeside Drive, Horsham, PA, 19044.
- The non-profit has reported 31 employees on their form for the year 2019.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $553,527.
- The organization has 13 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1994.
- The organization pays $2,041,171 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $0 in fundraising expenses.