March 2018 Patient Safety 1 2 3 Together in Safety National Patient Safety Awareness Week March 11-17, 2018 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 American Association of Poison Control Centers http://www.aapcc.org 11 Daylight Saving Time Begins 12 13 14 15 16 17 National Patient Safety Awareness Week March 11-17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Institute for Healthcare Improvement/National Patient Safety Foundation http://www.ihi.org/topics/patientsafety/pages/defa ult.aspx http://www.npsf.org/ National Poison Prevention Week March 18-24 25 26 27 28 29 30 National Doctors Day Passover begins at Sundown Good Friday 31
April 2018 Prevent Disease Public Health Prolong Life Promote Health Easter April Fool s Day 1 Theme: Behavioral Health 2 Theme: Communicable Disease 3 4 National Public Health Week April 2-8 Theme: Environmental Health Theme: Injury and Violence Prevention 5 6 Theme: Ensuring the Right to Health 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 7 Public Health 15 16 17 18 19 National Volunteer Week April 15-22 20 21 IHI/NPSF http://www.npsf.org/?page=public_health_crisis 22 Tax Day * OPSI Audio Conference 23 24 25 26 27 28 National Public Health Week https://www.nphw.org/nphw- 2018 Earth Day National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Ohio Department of Health http://www.odh.ohio.gov/localhealthdistricts/lhdm ain.aspx World Health Organization Health Topics http://www.who.int/topics/en/ 29 30 * Technology Improved Safety Rounding in Behavioral Health Register for the OHA Annual Meeting This Month
May 2018 Improve Diagnostic Safety 1 2 3 4 5 World Hand Hygiene Day 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 National Hospital Week May 6-12 National Nurses Week May 6-12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 National Nursing Home Week May 13-19 https://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patientsafety/diagnostic-safety/index.html Mother s Day 20 21 Ramadan Begins Armed Forces Day 22 23 24 25 26 The National Academies of Sciences http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/reports/20 15/Improving-Diagnosis-in-Healthcare.aspx Victoria Day (Canada) IHI/NPSF Patient Safety Congress May 23-25 27 28 29 30 31 Memorial Day
June 2018 Risk Management Recognize and Identify Risks *A Multidisciplinary Approach to High Reliability in the Prevention of Suicide in the Hospital 3 4 5 6 OHA Annual Meeting June 4-6 1 2 7 8 9 Comprehensive Approach to Management RISK MANAGEMENT Summit 10 11 12 13 14 * OPSI Audio Conference Ramadan Ends Flag Day 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 American Society for Healthcare Risk Management http://www.ashrm.org Ohio Society for Healthcare Risk Managers http://ohiohospitals.org/oshrm/ Father s Day Healthcare Risk Management Week June 19-23 First Day of Summer 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
July 2018 Opioid Safety 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Independence Day 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspectives/perspective/21 5/patient-safety-and-opioid-medications 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Institute for Safe Medication Practices http://www.ismp.org/tools/bestpractices/tmsbp-forhospitals.pdf http://www.ismp.org/tools/default.aspx Ohio Governor s Action Team Prescribing Guidelines (Mental Health & Addiction Services MHA) http://mha.ohio.gov/default.aspx?tabid=828 29 30 31 Work on OPSI Best Practice Application
August 2018 Culture of Safety *Improving Anti- Psychotic Medication Safety In Children & Adolescents 1 2 * OPSI Audio Conference 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 https://www.ahrq.gov/sops/quality-patientsafety/patientsafetyculture/hospital/index.html 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Institute for Healthcare Improvement http://www.ihi.org/resources/pages/changes/deve lopacultureofsafety.aspx The Joint Commission https://www.jointcommission.org/assets/1/18/sea_ 57_Safety_Culture_Leadership_0317.pdf 26 27 28 29 30 31 Work on OPSI Best Practice Application
September 2018 Fall Prevention 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Labor Day 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Falls Toolkit https://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/hospit al/fallpxtoolkit/index.html Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown 16 17 18 World Sepsis Day 19 20 21 22 Center For Disease Control and Prevention Falls Toolkit http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/falls Ohio Department of Health http://www.odh.ohio.gov/safesleep/ Yom Kippur begins at sundown Falls Prevention Awareness Day First Day of Fall 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Ohio Hospital Association http://ohiohospitals.org/safesleep Ohio Perinatal Collaborative https://opqc.net/ NATIONAL INFANT MORTALITY AWARENESS MONTH 30 Work on OPSI Best Practice Application
October 2018 Healthcare 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 OPSI Recommended Resources https://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patientsafety/hais/index.html Center for Disease Control https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/ Health Information Translations https://healthinfotranslations.org Institute for Healthcare Improvement http://www.ihi.org/ihi/topics/improvement/improve mentmethods/howtoimprove/ Columbus Day 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Infection Prevention Week October 14-20 Sweetest Day 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 National Healthcare Week October 21-27 National Association for Healthcare http://nahq.org/about/healthcare-qualityweekqualityforum.org NATIONAL HEALTH LITERACY & NATIONAL PHARMACY MONTH 28 29 30 31 Halloween Work on OPSI Best Practice Application
November 2018 Pressure Injury Prevention 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Daylight Saving Time Ends Election Day 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 (Hospitals) https://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/hospit al/pressureulcertoolkit/index.html Veterans Day World Wide Pressure Injury Prevention Day 18 19 20 21 22 World Prematurity Day 23 24 (Long Term Care) https://www.guideline.gov/summaries/summary/12 381 NATIONAL HOME CARE AND HOSPICE/PALLIATIVE CARE MONTH Thanksgiving 25 26 27 28 29 30 Remember: OPSI Best Practice Application Submissions Due December 21, 2018
December 2018 Hand Hygiene 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Hanukkah begins at sundown National Influenza Vaccination Week December 2-8 National Hand Washing Awareness Week December 2-8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Center for Disease Control https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/index.htm World Health Organization Five Moments http://www.who.int/gpsc/tools/five_moments/en 16 17 18 19 20 21 Deadline OPSI Best Practice Application Submissions 23 24 25 26 First Day of Winter 22 27 28 29 Christmas Eve 30 31 Christmas Day Kwanzaa begins New Year s Eve
January 2019 Patient and Family Engagement 1 2 3 4 5 New Year s Day 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 https://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/hospit al/engagingfamilies/index.html 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Health Research & Educational Trust In Partnership with American Hospital Association https://www.aha.org/system/files/hpoe/reports- HPOE/2015/pfe-compendium.pdf Martin Luther King Jr. Day 27 28 29 30 31 The Joint Commission https://www.jointcommission.org/guide_to_patient_ and_family_engagement_in_hospital_safety_and_ quality_/
February 2019 Alarm Safety 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Chinese New Year 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 https://innovations.ahrq.gov/qualitytools/alarmsafety-resource-site 17 18 Lincoln s Birthday Valentine s Day 19 20 21 22 23 The Joint Commission http://www.jointcommission.org/standards_informa tion/npsgs.aspx President s Day Washington s Birthday 24 25 26 27 28 AMERICAN HEART MONTH