Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

This form is required by all employees receiving workers’ compensation benefits in the state of Louisiana for supplemental earning benefit claims. The 1020 form should be submitted on a monthly basis to report the claimant’s previous month’s earnings.

Risk management services designed specifically to address the safety needs of schools, school nursing programs including school based health clinics and special education programs to help you identify risk, understand best practices and implement cost effective strategies to mitigate risk.

The Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a proactive risk tool to help predict which steps in a process have the highest likelihood of
leading to an adverse event. This tool allows a team to intervene and make changes to a process before something negative happens to a patient, visitor or staff member. This example is simply a starting point — designed to be customized to your individual organization.

The Joint Commission's recent Sentinel Event Alert discusses the elimination of racial and ethnic disparities causing mortality and morbidity in pregnant and postpartum patients.

The Joint Commission's Quick Safety Newsletter: Issue 67, discusses how mental health conditions are the leading cause of pregnancy-related deaths.

AWHONN has adapted the SBAR tool to promote respectful and inclusive patient communication and care.

Coding the medical record when a human trafficking victim is treated in a healthcare faciltiy is an important part of performance improvement. Proper coding of human trafficking can help reveal trends in occurrence and aid in development of support services and new programs aimed at prevention.

Once a human trafficking victim has been identified and treated in a healthcare facility, it is imperative to notify the victim of the national human trafficking hotline and provide appropriate resources.

Maintaing compliance in credentialing is a very important function for healthcare organizations and providers. The process needs to be hardwired to ensure that all regulatory requirements are met. These resources provide compliance techniques in the credentialing process for healthcare organizations.

Online resources are available for healthcare providers who are interested in human trafficking education and information.

This resource provides a step-by-step focus on healthcare credentialing processes.

Research has determined that marijuana can benefit specific medical illnesses. The following information describes the Medical Marijuana Program in Louisiana. It defines marijuana, discusses the packaging requirements related to the purchase of cannabis and its usage for designated medical conditions.