Safety Collection
Check out our ten most recent safety pieces below. Peruse our entire safety repertoire here.
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The Leader's Role in Optimal Systems of Care
The importance of leadership and culture to improve patient care is cited and emphasized so routinely, it might seem cliché, but it’s nonetheless true: Failures to improve care experience and outcomes are almost always traceable to the top.Read More -
The Vital Role of Executive Rounding in Promoting a Culture of Safety in Hospitals
In the complex, dynamic environment of healthcare, maintaining a culture of safety is of paramount importance.Read More -
The Surprising Benefits of a Patient Blood Management Program
We need to examine a central cause affecting patient outcomes and financial inefficiencies: siloed healthcare software and data.Read More -
Driving Safer Care With Better Margins Through Connected Healthcare Operations
We need to examine a central cause affecting patient outcomes and financial inefficiencies: siloed healthcare software and data.Read More -
Ensuring That Telehealth Equals Quality Care
For reasons of necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare quickly turned to telehealth. This mode of care increased 154% during the early stages of the pandemic and rapidly accelerated to levels 38 times higher than in 2019. Today, the uses of telehealth encompass phone and video consultations, mobile health tools, text messaging portals, remote patient monitoring, tele-diagnostics for imaging and pathology, and more.Read More -
It Starts With a Conversation: Tackling Gender Equity in Healthcare Leadership
Once the healthcare sector’s common challenges are recognized, we as an international hospital leadership community can begin to address them.Read More -
Two Patient Safety Lessons for a Post-Pandemic Age
A strong safety system should allow us to take risks and distinguish what was inevitable from what was avoidable.Read More -
The 2 Big Myths About Using AI in Healthcare
Danielle Walsh, MD, FAAP, FACS, a professor of surgery and vice chair of Surgery for Quality and Process Improvement at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington, believes there are two big myths about using AI in healthcare: that physicians don’t want AI and that patients don’t want AI.Read More -
The Science of Safety Culture
As part of its approach to instilling a comprehensive patient safety culture through continuing education, MedStar Health, Columbia, Md., has built an extensive internal simulation program over the past two decades with three large simulation labs, a mobile simulation center and vans that bring simulation equipment into its hospital and outpatient environments.Read More
ACHE and Healthcare Executive Safety Collection
We're serious about establishing a culture of safety at ACHE and within our broader healthcare community. This continually growing collection of Safety content was curated with you in mind.
Journal of Healthcare Management: Safety Journal Articles
Check out the "Safety" articles from the Journal of Healthcare Management. Articles include:
- Patient Safety Climate A Study of Southern California Healthcare Organizations
- Creating a System of Consistent Safety in the Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin Health Network
- The Three-Legged Stool: Why Safety, Quality, and Equity Depend on Each Other
- Partnering to Lead a Culture of Safety
- and so much more