Becker's ASC

Patient Safety Tool: Sample Patient Safety Monthly Reporting Plan

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s National Healthcare Safety Network offers a free, downloadable patient safety monthly reporting plan. The monthly reporting plan was designed to help ...
HealthLeaders Media

Expert Reflects on New Patient Safety Action Plan: 'Healthcare Organization Leadership Is Integral'

The new patient action plan stresses leadership, patient and family engagement, workforce safety, and learning systems. A new "action plan" to advance patient safety addresses fundamental elements of ...
Becker's ASC

Patient Safety Tool: Sample Fire Safety Plan

The Minnesota Health Department offers a free, downloadable sample fire safety plan for healthcare organizations. The six-page form allows healthcare providers to specify its purpose for a fire safety ...
Medscape

How a National Patient Safety Plan Can Help Clinicians

The safety of the healthcare workforce is one of four foundational areas in a new national report on patient safety, highlighting how intertwined the well-being of patients remains with those who care ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Patient Safety Tool: Sample Healthcare Waste Management Lesson Plan

A free sample curriculum for healthcare waste management training is available from the Global Environment Facility through its Healthcare Waste Project. The sample curriculum, which was developed in ...
Fierce Healthcare

Lucian Leape: Put patient safety at top of your 2010 strategic plan

Part I of a two-part series -- In November 1999, the Institute of Medicine released its groundbreaking report, "To Err is Human," which found that medical errors were to blame for 98,000 patient ...
HeraldNet

Gregoire pitches patient safety plan

OLYMPIA — Gov. Chris Gregoire on Friday proposed tougher policing of health care professionals and more transparency of hospitals’ patient safety records. The governor, who has made expanded health ...
Becker's Hospital Review

AHA Comments on ONC’s Health IT Patient Safety Action Plan

The American Hospital Association has sent a letter commenting on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s Health Information Technology Patient Safety Action and ...
Fierce Healthcare

HIMSS, AHA support ONC's patient safety plan

Both the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and the American Hospital Association sent letters to National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari this week commenting on ONC's ...
The News-Gazette

Blagojevich unveils patient safety plan

Gov. Rod Blagojevich issued an executive order on Thursday creating a new Division of Patient Safety and proposed computerizing prescriptions to help prevent errors. "If we're successful, our patient ...
Computer Weekly

Digital Clinical Safety Strategy adds to NHS patient safety plan

The UK government has published a Digital Clinical Safety Strategy with the goal of ensuring digital technologies in health and care are safe, while using those tools to improve patient safety. The ...