The Speak Up campaign provides sets of materials to enable patients and families to engage in making their health care experiences as safe as possible. Topics covered include safe surgery, pain management, medication safety, and most recently, how preventive care helps to keep patients healthy and out of the hospital. Each topical package includes infographics, videos, and distribution guidance. Some written materials are available in Spanish.

The Eisenberg Award honors individuals and organizations who have made key contributions to patient safety and quality improvement. The awards are presented at the National Quality Forum's annual policy conference in Washington, DC. This website provides information on all the recipients and the application process. The 2023 award submission cycle is open through August 21, 2023. 

A series of patient safety brochures, videos and infographics directed toward specific areas of care that encourages patients to take an active role by asking questions and addressing problems with their providers. Topics include preventing falls, medication safety, and safe surgery. Available in both English and Spanish.

… This website provides sentinel event data reported to The Joint Commission, which includes information on sentinel events … with event type by year from 2018 through 2022. … Joint Commission. … Joint Commission …

The annual Eisenberg Award recognizes leaders and organizations who have made substantial contributions toward patient safety and quality improvement. The 2022 honorees are Jason S. Adelman, MD, MS, North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA) and Parkland Health, Dallas County, Texas. The awards were presented at the National Quality Forum's annual conference on February 20, 2023, in Washington, DC.

The National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) are one of the major methods by which The Joint Commission establishes standards for ensuring patient safety in all health care settings. In order to ensure health care facilities focus on preventing major sources of patient harm, The Joint Commission regularly revises the NPSGs based on their impact, cost, and effectiveness. Major focus areas include promoting surgical safety and preventing hospital-acquired infections, medication errors, inpatient suicide, and specific clinical harms such as falls and pressure ulcers. The 2023 goals, which include a goal to improve health equity, are now available.

The Eisenberg Award recognizes individual and organizational accomplishment toward patient safety and quality improvement. The 2021 honorees are Hardeep Singh, MD, MPH, Prime Healthcare Services, Ontario, California, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, and Mark R. Chassin, MD, FACP, MPP, MPH. The awards will be presented virtually during the National Quality Forum's annual meeting in July.

The Eisenberg Award honors individuals and organizations who have made critical achievements toward patient safety and quality improvement. The 2020 honorees are Dr. David Gaba, Veterans Health Administration Rapid Naloxone Initiative, Washington, DC, and Northwestern Medicine Academy for Quality and Safety Improvement, Chicago IL. The awards will be presented virtually during the National Quality Forum's annual meeting in July.

… Manual for Hospitals. CAMH. Oakbrook Terrace, IL: Joint Commission; January 2021:PS1-PS46. … Joint Commission …

Root cause analysis has been widely adopted as a strategy to investigate events, despite questions regarding its effectiveness in health care. This revised pubication provides information about updated approaches to root cause analysis with an emphasis on idenitification of causal and contributing factors. It highlights the use of failure mode and effects analays as a complementary sentinel event examination strategy that enables design of proactive and reactive improvements.

… Healthcare, Nashville, Tennessee. … Oakbrook Terrace, IL; Joint Commission: May 13 2020. …

… prevent the event from occurring.  … Oakbrook Terrace, IL: Joint Commission: October 2019. … Suicidal patient slips through the cracks. Oakbrook Terrace, IL: Joint Commission: October 2019 …

Maternal safety in the United States is gaining momentum as a system-level patient safety concern. This report reviews the new Joint Commission Provision of Care, Treatment, and Services (PC) standards developed to improve the reliability of maternal care. Actions for improvement include patient risk assessment for conditions at admission and role-specific education for staff and providers who treat maternal patients regarding hemorrhage processes and procedures.

… annual conference on March 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. … Joint Commission. … Joint Commission …

Workplace violence in health care can affect the safety of both staff and patients. This resource collection highlights federal, state and professional organization materials exploring workplace violence and strategies to reduce its presence and impact in health care.

… are available upon request.  … Oakbrook Terrace, IL: Joint Commission. … The Joint Commission …

… annual conference on March 12, 2018 in Washington, DC. … Joint Commission. … Joint Commission …

… in improving work environments to support safety. … Joint Commission Resources. Oak Brook, IL: Joint Commission; 2017. ISBN: 9781599409474. … Joint …