Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

This resource guides healthcare organizations in the step-by-step process of assessing and improving the quality and safety of care provided to patients. Resource information is flexible and modifiable based on the organization’s size and services offered.

Readmissions are very common, expensive and somewhat preventable. A common cause of readmissions is the result of ineffective discharge processes. This resource provides guidance on how organizations can improve the discharge process, and therefore, the chance of readmissions.

A resource guide addressing patient handling with the goal of providing necessary tools for occupational health professionals to implement a safe patient handling program.

Safe patient handling programs pay for themselves. This resource provides information on the effectiveness and cost savings of safe patient handling programs.

This document provides information from leading hospitals that have implemented and benefitted from safe patient handling programs.

A PowerPoint presentation presenting a sample model for a safe patient handling and movement program.

It is essential to understand a security program. These resources help build and sustain a security program in healthcare. Sources delve further into risk considerations of law enforcement's presence in the emergency room and guidance to infant abductions.

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.