The Safety Playbook: A Healthcare Leaders Guide to Building a High-Reliabi [Paperback]

Transform your healthcare organization into a high-reliability, patient-centered system.Each year, medical errors cause over 200,000 deaths in the US.The Safety Playbookoffers a practical guide for healthcare leaders to build a high-reliability organization focused on eliminating preventable medical errors and improving patient outcomes.This guide provides a clear process for building a safety program, emphasizing transparency, communication, and teamwork. Learn how to develop internal safety experts, implement effective tools, and foster a culture of safety. Discover how to engage leaders, improve patient outcomes, and reduce costs. This book is for board members, executives, clinical leaders, and quality/safety/risk management staff seeking to create a safer, more reliable healthcare environment.

• Review the current rate of medical errors and explore proven solutions.
• Discover how transparency about errors and their causes makes a successful safety program possible.
• Learn how developing internal safety experts saves time and money.
• Examine safety tools and practices used effectively in high-reliability industries.
• Understand why communication is the top cause of medical errors and how to improve it.

John Byrnes, MD,is a nationally recognized expert in healthcare quality and safety. He has more than 20 years of experience leading, designing, and implementing quality and safety programs throughout the United States and Europe. During his recent 11-year tenure as chief quality officer at Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, Michigan, the organization received more than 100 quality awards, was ranked three times as one of the nation’s top 15 health systems, and received multiple top-50 and top-100 hospital designations.