Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

Patient and family advisors are valuable partners in efforts to reduce medical errors and improve the safety and quality of health care. This handbook will assist you in using patients and family input to improve processes.

An article published by the American Hospital Association shows hospital improvements on key patient safety and quality measures since the COVID-19 pandemic.

A guide organizations can use to review the goal of each domain, specific attestations that are expected to me made for compliance and applicable resources to that can be used to help either determine compliance or develop processes to meet the attestations. The resources provided are both LHATF and national resources. Live links are included to access the resources.

This self-assessment tool is a companion to the Safer Together paper and the Implementation Resource Guide. The tool is separated into four foundational areas and is intended for healthcare delivery organizations to use for learning and to track progress over time.

This National Action Plan was developed from knowledge of the National Steering Council for Patient Safety (NSC) to illuminate collective insights on patient safety improvement. Patient Safety Structural Measure arises from the information in this document.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement convened the National Steering Committee for Patient Safety as a collaboration among 27 national organizations committed to advancing patient safety.

Performance improvement can strengthen an organization's strategies. These processes determine areas in need of improvement, reconstruct and improve processes to provide safe, high-quality care. Improving Quality Performance Measures supplies tools to assist with improvement projects identified in the organization.

To provide safe, quality care, an organization requires a plan to improve processes continuously. Quality Improvement Programs originate from a team managed by leadership implementing various strategies to achieve success. Staff involved in these details realize the effects these processes bear on a facility. Below is a collection of tools that can benefit personnel to enhance practices consistently.

Due to the rise of opioid overdoses, it is vital to implement a plan to manage these circumstances. Strategies to prepare staff response, prevent overdose and attend to an overdose patient can be viewed below.

Recommendations, tools, sample policies and protocols can be found in Opioid Prescribing Best Practices. This data distributes information on chronic pain, pain experienced by specific age populations and particular requirements involved with these medication's dispensing.

Education is crucial to the prevention of an overdose. The following presentation shares concerns related to the risks, patient monitoring and development of policies. This material prepares staff to maintain safety with the administration of opioids.

Provided are a variety of resources focusing on patient safety in the outpatient/office practice setting.