Help Advance Patient Safety with Safer Together
The COVID-19 pandemic put enormous stress on the healthcare delivery system and shed light on its vulnerabilities. Rapid changes to systems and processes in response to the crisis—along with shifting guidelines, staffing shortages, and burnout—have exacerbated existing patient safety risks and introduced new ones. While moving forward may feel daunting, these experiences offer countless opportunities to learn, adapt, and build stronger systems of care.
Organizational capacity to manage risk and address safety issues on an ongoing basis is essential to making our healthcare systems safer. Safer Together: A National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety provides a clear path to advance patient safety in organizations across the continuum of care and practical tools to guide the work. Safer Together addresses a key issue hindering patient safety progress over the past 20 years: everyone is approaching patient safety independently, and learning is siloed within organizations. Effective implementation of evidence-based best practices requires a shared framework. Safer Together provides that shared framework, focusing on the systems and infrastructure organizations have in place rather than specific solutions to individual problems.
Tools from Safer Together
Self-Assessment Tool: A tool that provides a helpful starting point for prioritizing your patient safety improvements efforts
Implementation Resource Guide: A resource for implementing the national action plan recommendations and to track your patient safety improvement efforts over time
Learn more about the Safer Together: National Action Plan and Get the Tools