Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

This resource is a guide to creating quality improvement teams and how these teams can be effective in your organization.

This resource helps healthcare organizations make patient care safer by improving care transitions. It is composed of a variety of strategies, change concepts and actionable items that any organization can implement based on the need or services provided to improve patient safety.

Patient and family engagement is an area of increasing importance to healthcare organizations. Healthcare organizations that include patients and their family members in a quality improvement program benefits all involved. This resource provides guidance on how to improve patient and family engagement in an organization’s quality and safety program.

This resource from OSHA provides tools and programs for heathcare facilities implementing safe handling programs.

The Society of Critical Care Medicine provides an educational presentation on identifying and addressing the signs of sepsis.

Link to the CDC Surviving Sepsis page that contains patient and clinician resources on dealing with sepsis.

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.

Active shooter training is vital for all staff in a healthcare organization as they are the eyes and ears of the facility. These resources help ensure staff are trained and prepared to address violent/aggressive behavior/situations.