Culture of Safety
Report shows hospitals outperform pre-pandemic levels, boosting patient safety, care experience and workforce resilience.
In session two of the AHA Affinity Forum Elisa Arespacochaga, Vice President of Clinical Affairs and Workforce, AHA, and Andrea Greco, Senior Vice President of Health care Safety, CENTEGIX discuss how vulnerabilities to safety can severely impact the caregiver and patient experience. Learn how…
Workplace violence continues to threaten health care professionals, but mitigating the risk may come with complex challenges. In session one of the AHA Affinity Forum Elisa Arespacochaga, Vice President of Clinical Affairs and Workforce, AHA, and Andrea Greco, Senior Vice President of Health care…
In this “Safety Speaks” conversation, CommonSpirit Health's Beth Miller, system director, patient safety-performance improvement, and Austin Peterson, system director, patient harm prevention, discuss how safety transparency benefits both patients and providers, and how a CommonSpirit Health…
In session three of the AHA Affinity Forum Elisa Arespacochaga, Vice President of Clinical Affairs and Workforce, AHA, and Andrea Greco, Senior Vice President of Health care Safety, CENTEGIX discuss how workplace safety is an evolving risk. Even after security enhancements are implemented, there is…
Join the AHA and Centegix for a 3-part series of interactive virtual panel discussions on key aspects of workplace safety in health care
In this episode, I talk with Steve Diaz, M.D., chief medical officer at MaineGeneral Health in Augusta and an AHA board member. Steve is an emergency medicine physician by training and has been involved in many of MaineGeneral’s health care quality and safety initiatives.
The governing board is instrumental in providing leadership and support for the culture of safety in hospitals and health systems. In this conversation, Jamie Orlikoff, the AHA’s national adviser on governance and leadership, discusses how trustees can affect a culture of safety.
In this new “Safety Speaks” conversation, Harry S. Smith, board chair of Valley Health System and member of the AHA Committee on Governance, discusses how their organization rearranged its governance system to ensure that quality and patient safety standards were being met across the board.