Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends these best practices to reduce the risk of fires occurring during surgical procedures.

A checklist to help the risk manager or safety director identify hazards that lead to slips, trips, and falls. The items in the checklist are designed around common causes of visitor falls within and outside of an organization. Use this checklist as a routine rounding tool.

Sample outcome measures that can be used to measure the success of your SPHM program. This document contains both examples of short and long term measures that can be put in place. Each sample measure includes what it is expected to evaluate and the numerator and denominator that should be collected to calculate the compliance.

LMGMA provides resources for medical practices and their leadership in Louisiana including educational events, networking opportunities and problem solving solutions.

LSNA provides resources for Registered Nurses consisting of information, events, professional development and health policy.

LHATF provides insurance solutions for healthcare facilities and physicians throughout the state of Louisiana. The insurance solutions consist of professional liability, general liability and workers' compensation resources and patient, employee and physician resources.

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.

The environment of care in healthcare organizations focuses on anywhere patients are treated. The main objective in the environment of care arena is to provide a safe and effective environment for patients, employees and visitors. These resources focus on environment of care safety in healthcare organizations.

Fire Safety is an important focus in the overall environment of care in healthcare. Provided are resources focusing on fire safety and prevention.

Ensuring an environment is free of infection control risks is important for healthcare organizations. The resources provided include tools focusing on infection control processes in healthcare organizations.

Proactively rounding can identity environmental opportunites for improvement. The checklist can be utilized in all areas of healthcare facilities.