About Us
The James and Sylvia Earl Simulation to Advance Innovation and
Learning Center (SAIL), is a world-class medical simulation and
training facility in Annapolis, Md., located a few miles from the
Chesapeake Bay. The Center is part of Anne Arundel Medical Center, a
not-for-profit, independent hospital.
The mission of The Earl SAIL Center is to promote the provision of
safe care for patients through advanced training that is ahead of the
rest of the country and usually available only in major academic
medical centers. About 80 percent of all U.S. health care is delivered
in non-academic, private centers. The Earl SAIL Center is critical to
achieving and maintaining national patient safety goals as new medical
technologies continue to emerge at an ever increasing pace.
Additionally, as part of its mission and infrastructure, The Earl
SAIL Center is designed to foster the creation, co-development and
evaluation of intellectual property in a more cost effective, efficient
and incentivized fashion than academic medical centers. The Earl SAIL
Center provides an environment dedicated to conducting world-class
clinical research, training the next generations of health care
providers, and facilitating efforts that will ensure excellence in the
medical practices of the future.
The Center hosts teleconferences, monthly national multi-center
teleconferences, lectures, research, and large group sessions for
resident surgical education, all of which help to develop staff skills
and knowledge.
The Earl SAIL Center serves not only the medical profession, but it
also provides tours and educational opportunities for area school
children, the community, patients, families and organizations dedicated
to health care improvement and patient safety.