The Mid-Atlantic Patient Safety Organization Announces the 2026 Minogue Award Winners
The Johns Hopkins Health System Named 2026 Minogue Award Winner for Patient Safety Innovation
The Mid-Atlantic Patient Safety Center (MPSC) is honored to announce that The Johns Hopkins Health System has been named the 2026 recipient of the Minogue Award for Patient Safety Innovation in recognition of its initiative, Hardwiring Medical Device Safety: A Systemwide Model for Collaboration, Recall Management, & Equity.
The Minogue Award for Patient Safety Innovation recognizes healthcare organizations that demonstrate bold leadership and measurable impact through innovative, system-level approaches to improving patient safety. The Johns Hopkins Health System was selected for its comprehensive, collaborative model to strengthen medical device safety, improve recall management, and embed equity into device-related safety processes across the system.
“This work reflects what patient safety looks like at its best—deeply collaborative, system-designed, and focused on solving problems at their root,” said Stephanie Peditto, President & CEO of the Mid-Atlantic Patient Safety Center. “The Johns Hopkins Health System has created a model that not only improves safety within its own organization but also offers valuable lessons for health systems across the region and beyond.”
About the Minogue Awards Program
The Minogue Awards program honors a spectrum of excellence in patient safety. In addition to the Minogue Award for Patient Safety Innovation (first-place submission), the program includes the Distinguished Achievement Award (second place) and Circle of Honor for Patient Safety Excellence recognitions for additional outstanding projects. Together, these awards celebrate meaningful innovations improving care across the Mid-Atlantic region.
2026 Minogue Award Recipients
Minogue Award for Patient Safety Innovation
Johns Hopkins Health System
Distinguished Achievement Award in Patient Safety
Sinai Hospital
Circle of Honor Awards
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Adventist HealthCare Home Care Services
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Adventist HealthCare Rehabilitation
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Carroll Hospital
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Greater Baltimore Medical Center
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Sinai Hospital
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University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center
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University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center
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UPMC Western Maryland
This year’s awardees were selected from nearly 50 submissions reviewed by a panel of healthcare experts. All winners will be recognized during a special awards reception held in conjunction with the Mid-Atlantic Patient Safety Conference in April.
Named in honor of William Minogue, MD, FACP—Maryland Patient Safety Center’s first President and Executive Director—the Minogue Awards were established by the Center’s Board of Directors to recognize Dr. Minogue’s enduring commitment to patient safety and to honor organizations making a demonstrable difference through innovation.
Congratulations to all the 2026 Minogue Award winners.
At MPSC, we believe the future of patient safety depends not on asking individuals to work harder, but on designing systems that make it easier to deliver safe, equitable care. We must shift toward systems that anticipate risk, support the workforce, and are built for resilience.
Too often, when harm (or a near miss) occurs, root cause analyses focus narrowly on frontline decisions or procedural lapses—missing the broader systems and design failures that allow harm to occur. Better RCAs look beyond policies and protocols to ask deeper questions: Why was the task hard to do safely? How did the design of the device, workflow, or environment contribute? Did the event depend on a staff member remembering or perceiving something in a loud/busy/distracted environment? Who was at the table when the solution was developed? The most meaningful safety improvements come when we expand the circle of responsibility—engaging not just clinicians, but also designers, manufacturers, architects, IT, engineers, and administrators in building safer care systems from the ground up.
This year’s Minogue Award sought submissions that reflect projects that hardwire safe and equitable care into systems solutions that reduce harm not by depending on perfect human performance, but by hard-wiring improvements to technology, processes, environment, and culture.
We invited healthcare organizations across the Mid-Atlantic to submit innovative patient safety initiatives for the 2026 Minogue Award. The 2026 Award winners submitted projects that:
Design safety into systems, processes, environment culture, and technologies
Reduce reliance on individual vigilance or heroism
Expand the ecosystem of safety partners beyond clinical teams
Strengthen the way we identify and respond to root causes of harm
2026 Patient Safety Awards Celebration & Dinner: April 20, 2026
We’re excited to announce that the 2026 Minogue Awards Reception will be bigger, more inclusive, and more celebratory than ever before.
This annual event honors the outstanding achievements of healthcare organizations who are leading the way in patient safety. All categories of Minogue Award winners—from the Minogue Award winner, to the Distinguished Achievement Award and Circle of Honor winners—will be recognized in one uplifting celebration.
A Regional Celebration of Patient Safety Excellence
For the first time, the reception will be open to a broader audience, welcoming not only healthcare leaders and staff, but also partners, supporters, and community members who share in our mission of making care safer for all patients.
Plan to join us for an inspiring evening of recognition, networking, and celebration.
Please stay tuned for more information about next year's awards. We look forward to learning–and sharing–how your work is advancing the future of safe, equitable, and systems-based care.
If you have any questions or need further information, please email: MPSCAwards@marylandpatientsafety.org
