Workplace Safety
Hospitals engage in an array of collaborative activities designed to improve the quality and safety of the care they provide. A safe practice environment for staff, patients and families is imperative to the delivery of quality care.
These AHA organizations help improve quality and safety in hospitals and health systems across the nation. Explore their resources:
Workforce Library
AHA divisions devoted to advancing workforce issues:
Advocate Aurora Health, dual headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., and Downers Grove, Ill., made event reporting a top priority by recognizing it as a strategic organizational goal. Staff developed an internal formula to standardize safety event reporting data and compare incident levels throughout 100…
Between 2019 and 2020, Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) in
California put in place a multifaceted workplace violence prevention plan to
protect its health care personnel from aggressive and violent behavior.
Tony Slonim, M.D., president and CEO of Renown Health and a member of AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence member advisory group, explains how hospitals and health systems are working to build safer workplaces and health care settings as elevated tensions lead to increased reports of altercations in…
Workplace Violence and COVID-19: An Environmental Scan
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
1 - 2 p.m. Eastern; noon - 1 p.m. Central; 10 - 11 a.m. Pacific
A collaboration between the American Hospital Association
(AHA) and the International Association for Healthcare Security
and Safety (IAHSS) to recommend action steps for hospital
leaders to build a safer workplace
The Department of Health and Human Services announced workplace guidance on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s applicability to disclosures and requests for information about whether a person has received a COVID-19 vaccine.
Lunch & Learn Series: Top Safety Challenges During Occupied Healthcare Renovations: Expert Solutions
Join us and a panel of industry experts as we discuss solutions for common safety challenges during occupied healthcare renovations. From common pre-planning challenges like ICRA collaboration to challenges which often emerge within the first weeks of a project, such as dust and debris containment…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a laboratory alert concerning the production of cyanide gas when molecular transport media is exposed to bleach.
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The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) in June 2019 released several new and revised pharmacy compounding standards. Specifically, USP published the final revised version of general chapter (Pharmaceutical Compounding of Sterile Preparations) to accompany the previous released general chapter (…