Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

An article from PS Net, that discusses the scientific research surrounding zero harm and the barriers to achievement. The commentary includes a debate on the feasibility of zero harm as a goal.

A great document to educate Board members. This Sentinel Event Alert was originally published in 2017 but was revised and republished in 2021. It addresses the role of leadership in the culture of safety and provides steps that can be implemented to achieve leadership engagement.

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.

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.

Attention to medication safety is of the utmost importance in the ED due to the variety of patient conditions and age groups being treated. Resources are provided to address safe use of medication, as well as moderate and conscious sedation in the ED.

This section contains information related to regulations and compliance issues that may impact the ED.

The ED plays an important role in an organization's interdisciplinary emergency preparedness plan. Resources in this section are provided to support the ED's unique role in emergency preparedness.

Patient monitoring devices will transmit a high number of alerts each shift and provide a layer of patient safety. However, if ignored or turned off by healthcare providers, this can possibly cause patient safety incidents. Information is provided to ensure healthcare providers are focusing on clinical alarm safety.