About - Clinical Simulation and Patient Safety Center

The Ochsner Clinical Simulation and Patient Safety Center is located at 1401 Jefferson Highway on the North Campus of the Ochsner Medical Center in the Center for Academic Excellence. Our new facility provides 8,300 square feet of space and access to state-of-the-art simulation technology for healthcare training designed to improve the quality of healthcare while reducing the likelihood of medical errors.

Improving and protecting safety for patients is our number one priority. The center is designed to be a multi-disciplinary, interprofessional training center with simulation-based educational deliverables focusing in TeamSTEPPS, a teamwork system that promotes patient safety and quality through the advancement of teamwork. It offers a powerful solution to improving collaboration and communication, with key initiatives that transform the culture within health care. It is an evidence-based program aimed at optimizing performance among teams of health care professionals, enabling them to respond quickly and effectively to whatever situations arise. The simulation center trains attending physicians, fellows, residents, medical students, advance practice providers, allied health professionals, and other healthcare professionals with deliverables ranging from basic-skills training, competency-based education, to technologically advanced procedural innovations.

The mission of the Ochsner Clinical Simulation and Patient Safety Center is to improve patient safety and clinical outcomes through delivery of high-quality experiential integrated team-based learning to the Ochsner Health System, Ochsner Health System Partners, and the communities each serve.

To engage practicing medical professionals and clinical students, residents, and fellows, in the full spectrum of a technology-rich clinical simulation environment that advances clinical practice and delivery of error-free and safe patient care through inter-professional and trans-disciplinary learning.

To promote the highest quality health, safety and satisfaction of our patients by providing our learners an immersive, innovative, safe learning environment rich in ethics, virtues, collaborative teamwork, respect, and honesty;

To provide learner-focused simulation training designed to enhance clinical knowledge, skill proficiency, competency acquisition and maintenance, risk assessment, situational awareness, decision-making, crisis-management expertise, critical transitions of care and further knowledge acquisition

To design, develop, and implement simulation training scenarios that fully incorporate state-of-the-art training techniques and equipment.

Become the recognized regional leader in the delivery of simulation training focused on high-quality effective care and patient safety to industry health care partners and the community that lack the facility, equipment and personnel of their own to do so.