Ohio Patient Safety Institute

▪ Medication safety brochures
▪ Medication cards
▪ Brownbag toolkit
▪ Order materials

▪ Ohio Surgical Verification
    Protocol
  ▪ Anesthesia awareness sample
    policy
▪ Key steps poster
▪ Time-out wet erase board
▪ "The Vital Patient" brochure

▪ Abbreviations
▪ Patient ID/Wristbands
▪ Infection
▪ Skin Integrity
▪ Fall Precautions

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The Ohio Patient Safety Institute is...
The Ohio Patient Safety Institute is the leader and catalyst in transforming healthcare into a reliable safe delivery system.

What's New...
Speaker's Bureau
OPSI is seeking speakers to populate their new Speaker's Bureau. - Find out more!

MRI Safety Teleconference
June 25, 2008, Dr. Emanuel Kanal
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Dr. Kanal will speak on the ACR Guidance Document for Safe MR Practices 2007, which has been adopted by the Joint Commission. - Find out more!

Anticoagulation Therapy Collaborative
This program will help organizations initiate or continue their planning and implementation of strategies to assure safe use of high risk medications as well as the attainment of National Patient Safety Goal 3E. View news release

2008 High Stakes Communication Teleconference Series
July 9, 2008 - Sandy Cornett,
Health Literacy
Sandy is the Director of The Ohio State University AHEC Health Literacy Initiative. For 21 years Dr. Cornett served as Program Manager of Consumer Health Education at OSU and in 1996 she established a Center for Health Information within hospitals where a large quantity of materials are available for patients, families, staff, and the general public. - Find out more!

OPSI to Apply for PSO Status
OPSI will seek Patient Safety Organization status. Learn more about PSO Status.

Healthcare 411
News Series from AHRQ

Standardization of Color Wrist Bands
View a toolkit and other implementation materials. Hospitals are asked to implement the change by September 2007. View a press release regarding standardization.

Learning Library
A collection of effective quality and patient safety practices submitted by Ohio hospitals. Submit practices

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Surgical/procedural
Communication
Clinical
Medication Admin.

Patient care comm.
Technological
Cultural/human factor