Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

Joint Commission provides national patient safety goals each year that are based on emerging patient safety issues that can affect patients in the following areas: ambulatory care, behavioral health, criticial access hospitals, home care, acute care hospitals, laboratories and office-based surgery centers.

The AHRQ provides a tool to evaluate and assess the understanding of patient educational materials.

IHI provides assessment tools for patient safety process improvement measures.

The VA Center for Patient Safety provides an assessment tool to assist healthcare organizations in conducting an objective assessment of their patient safety processes and program.

The Maternal Opioid Misuse Model provides strategies to combat the opioid crises in the maternal health population.

The CDC provides resources on opioid overdose facts and prevention strategies along with resources to raise awareness.

Although it is healthcare's goal to maintain a safe environment at all times, violence remains a significant concern today. It is vital to implement processes to prevent workplace violence. Security practices can include an array of methods. The following documents provide best practices and alternative approaches that may be applied when handling violent encounters.

Reducing the risk of encountering an active shooter situation is important to any business, especially healthcare. These resources provide tools on how to plan what to do in the event of an active shooter/violent situation.

Acitve shooter events are increasing more and more across the U.S. and the experts have developed tools to help the lay person identify a potential active shooter as a risk reduction strategy.

Healthcare organizations should take the possiblity of an active shooter event occuring in their facility very seriously. These resources provide key tactics on managing violent and disruptive behavior as a risk reduction process.