Please join us to participate in an AHA Physician Alliance and HRET HIIN Culture of Safety collaborative virtual event focused on... read more

Violence from patients and visitors is categorized as Type II workplace violence by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health... read more

The Culture of Safety change package is intended for hospitals participating in the hospital Improvement Innovation Network (HIIN) project led by the Centers for Medicare... read more

Hospitals and health systems are committed to making their communities and workplaces a safer place. The key is preventing violence within... read more

Is your hospital prepared for a natural or human-made disaster? How do you focus on quality patient care and harm reduction during a disaster... read more

In hospitals across the US, creating a culture of safety can seem like a daunting and near impossible task requiring more resources than you have, human behavior... read more

HRET celebrated Patient Safety Awareness week from March 11-17th, 2018. In honor of this observance week, HRET requested hospitals to submit stories showing dedicated... read more

Has your hospital made the connection between culture of patients safety and culture of workforce... read more

The Safety Across the Board approach has evolved since its inception and this resource will provide conceptual context in understanding and... read more

Has your hospital developed an integrated approach to eliminate disruptive behaviors in the workplace? Such behaviors include inappropriate comments,... read more

Despite heavy investments in improvement that emphasize the concepts of process and tools, results of most efforts the... read more

In hospitals across the US, creating a culture of safety can seem like a daunting and near impossible task requiring more resources than you have,... read more

Dr. Sharon Inouye, founder of the Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP), discusses a troubling underlying assumption: keeping... read more

The PIAA publication for the medical professional liability community provides useful tips and specific steps for avoiding misdiagnosis for... read more

The National Academy of Sciences brief details the imperative need for a focus in the health care field on diagnostic error. Learn more about the definition of diagnostic... read more

The American College of Healthcare Executives and the National Patient Safety Foundation's Lucian Leape Institute released this guide as a resource to... read more

This leadership virtual event, facilitated by Jackie Conrad and Betsy Lee of Cynosure Health, defines psychological safety and describes principles... read more

Following the National Academy of Medicine’s report in 2015, Improving Diagnosis in Medicine, attention has dramatically increased regarding reducing the all too... read more

The Culture of Safety Top Ten Checklist: Date of Last Safety checklist. The purpose of this checklist/ tool is to review current or initiate... read more

Developed by the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council, hospitals are encouraged to use this guide to learn how to survive... read more

This guide is intended to address an incident involving an active shooter in a confined and populated area. Hospitals may customize this document for their specific requirements. To... read more

This guide is intended to protect patients, staff and visitors during an active shooter incident. Hospitals can use this document as a checklist to ensure all tasks are addressed and... read more

This OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) form serves as a sample of what might be used or modified by employers to help identify potential workplace... read more

OSHA definition: Workplace violence is any act or threat of physical violence, harassment, intimidation or other threatening disruptive behavior that occurs at... read more

This presentation highlights the Hospital Improvement Innovation Network's journey to reducing harm across the board. The work of two... read more

This is 2017 AHA Rural Conference Coffeyville Regional Medical Center’s storyboard video that highlights a Culture of Safety improvement... read more

This is Yampa Valley Medical Center’s storyboard video that highlights a Culture of Safety improvement project at their facility in Steamboat... read more

As a result of the hospital survey on patient safety culture (HSOPS) in 2014, St. James Parish Hospital leadership identified opportunities to... read more

Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, located on the New Hampshire seacoast, is a full-service innovative hospital with a focus on patient safety and... read more

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and Safe & Reliable Healthcare collaborated to produce this white paper describing a framework for safe,... read more

This Post Fall Huddle Pocket Pocket guide is for facilitator and participants of post fall huddles. Click the link below to view or download this resource. View Resource

View Bacon County Hospital storyboard video that highlights a Culture of Safety improvement project at their facility in Alma, Georgia. Download Storyboard

View Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center storyboard video that highlights a Culture of Safety improvement project at their facility in Jasper, Indiana. Download Storyboard

View DeKalb Regional Medical Center storyboard video that highlights a Culture of Safety improvement project at their... read more

View Carilion New River Valley Medical Center’s storyboard video that highlights a Culture of Safety improvement project at... read more

The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality sponsored the development of these patient safety culture assessment tools for hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory... read more

At Indiana University Kokomo, student nurses receive specialized training in preventing medication errors through a partnership with the Purdue College of Pharmacy.  This article describes the training efforts. View Resource

Does your organization link efforts to improve worker safety with patient safety? Because a culture of safety is the foundation for both, these... read more

This tool was designed primarily for users of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Surveys on Patient Safety Culture. The... read more

A new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality finds that the rate of avoidable complications affecting patients in hospitals leveled off in 2014 after three years of decline. Read the full report here. View Resource

The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) convened an expert panel in 2015 to assess progress in the field of patient safety since the 1999 IOM To Err is Human report. The... read more

These guidelines reflect the variations that exist in different settings and incorporate the latest and most... read more

This magazine article reveals how three hospitals developed a culture of safety by focusing their improvement work on high reliability principles through... read more

This toolkit outlines resources to systematically monitor and reduce lateral and patient and family violence in the workplace. Please click the link below to visit this page to download or view this resource. View Resource

This toolkit is a series of checklists designed to help risk managers develop proactive and reactive responses in the following violent/harassment scenarios:... read more

This report examines best practices around RCAs and recommends guidelines to help health professionals standardize the process and improve... read more

Consumers Advancing Patient Safety offers a collaborative learning network to support advancement of Safety Across the Board (SAB). SAB has 4... read more

The National Quality Forum's Safe Practices for Healthcare and the Leapfrog Group both mandate safety culture assessment. The Agency for Healthcare Research and... read more

The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety article describes the integral role HCO leaders have in diagnostic... read more

This paper will discuss the ways health IT and health IT developers can support health care organizations’... read more