Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

Information on numerous programs available to fund Maternal Child Programs to improve care and access.

Toolkit by AHRQ. It helps to improve patient safety, team communication, and quality of care for mothers and thier newborns.

Flyer from The Joint Commission that provides pointers and education for caregivers to prevent the spread of infection through hand hygiene.

This checklist from the NFPA helps guide for inspection for swinging fire door assembly.

CDC Resources to supplement efforts to prevent oversdose or substance abuse harm.

National Helpline for treatment referral available 24 hours daily,

Quality patient care in a physician's office is an important piece of today's healthcare services Provided is a resource focusing on payment structures.

Measuring processes related to patient safety is important in determing the effectiveness of the processes. This section contains tools that can be used to measure effectiveness of a variety of processes using different methods such as nursing accountability and risk assessment.

It is important to proactively address potential risk and compliance issues in the office practice even though occurance is rare. These resources focus on terminating the physician-patient relationship, closing a medical practice and other risk and compliance issues.

Evaluating the current patient safety program is a good way to identify gaps between current practice and best practices. Below are multiple tools that can be used to evaluate the current state of patient safety in your organization against best practices.

Rounding is an effective patient safety and satisfaction tool, but it can be a daunting task to achieve. Provided in this section are tools to help develop rounding processes that provide meaningful information to inform patient care.

Communication breakdowns can be a root cause in many adverse events in healthcare. Therefore, developing processes to improve communication among staff is an important aspect of any patient safety program. Tools are provided in this section to help improve communication at critical transfers of patient care.