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.

White Papers

Safety Culture and the Disconnect between Front-line Staff and Administrators

Webinars

2009 Harvard Forces of Change - Organizational Disconnects

Keeping the Momentum for Patient Safety

The Five Ws of Safety

Pulse Reports

2009 Safety Culture Pulse Report - This first of its kind report analyzes the perspectives of over 42,000 employees from health care facilities across the United States.

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 specifically 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)