Employees Reveal Your Safety Culture
A hospital’s culture of safety grows out of its employees’ values, attitudes, perceptions, and behavior patterns. You’ll find essential resources to help you develop a better safety culture at your organization.
The Press Ganey Safety Culture Solution enables you to create an environment of internal transparency, where team members feel comfortable and encouraged to talk about near-misses and potential risks to a patient's safety.
Want to learn more? Check out these additional resources on the importance of safety culture.
Resources
Safety Culture ROI Calculator—Understand the financial implications of common adverse events, including the CMS-determined “never events” effective August 2008 as well as adverse events currently under review for 2009 implementation on the CMS no-pay list.
Safety Culture Toolkit—information spefically designed to help safety culture clients maximize their improvement efforts.
Industry Information
Safety and Satisfaction: Where are the Connections? (Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare)
Safety Culture Solution—Frequently Asked Questions
The Cost of Nosocomial Infections (Press Ganey Research)
Aviation's Gift to Health Care (ABC News)
Ten Keys to Creating a Safe Patient Environment (Health Nsights)
Hospitals' Dirty Secret (Modern Healthcare)
True Patient Safety Begins at the Top (Physician Executive)
Press Ganey's online analysis tool allows you to drill down into your data and comments and helps engage staff throughout the organization in the improvement process.