**WHAT’S NEW for June 2014

• Article of the Month
  
• Building a Strong Safety Culture in Your Hospital[®] The Source, June 2014, Vol 12, #6, Pg 9 [Recommended for: GB, LDR, PI] – TJC is clearly striving to be a leader in the effort to bring high reliability to health care.  To that end they have clearly identified what they believe are the 3 critical factors for doing so… Robust Process Improvement, Leadership and a Culture of Safety. The latter two are the focus of this article that provides 8 leadership strategies for advancing development of a strong safety culture as required by LD.03.01.01. We highly recommended this article for all Leaders and PI Directors. Click ‘REVIEW’ below to read our full summary of this article.  Click ‘FULL ARTICLE’ below for more details on the 8 strategies.  Note: this article references 2 very useful tools, the AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture and James Reason’s Culpability Model/Decision Tree. Click on ‘COMMENT’ below to share with us whether or not your facility uses either tool and if so, would you recommend them?
  
• Click here for our REVIEW; the FULL ARTICLE; to share a COMMENT.

**RECOMMENDED READING:

1. PR: Revised Opioid Treatment Program Requirements for BHC  Ftxt   [REF: BHC]
2. TS: Tracer: Assigning Clinical Responsibilities in a CMHC  Ftxt  [REF: BHC-HR]
3. TS: Building a Strong Safety Culture in Your Hospital  Ftxt  [REF: GB, LDR, PI, SFT]
4. TS: CJCP™: Accreditation Participation Requirements  Ftxt  [REF: CJCP, JCSC]
5. TS: Influenza Vaccination Measures  Ftxt  [REF: IC, PI]
6. EC: C&E: Automatic Sprinkler Systems – EC.02.03.05  Ftxt  [REF: EOC]

**USEFUL UPDATES, LINKS & DOWNLOADS:

• AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture
• James Reason’s Culpability Model/Decision Tree
• EC020305(EP7)_MainDrainTestingTable
• EC020305(EP10)_FDC Inspection checklist
• Latest TJC Blogs: Physician Leader Monthly – Leadership Blog
  

**SupporTips

• S-Tip#18: Checkout the Checklists (& Worksheets) – A number of times the articles we review contain sample checklists or worksheets that can help facilitate your compliance process or at least its documentation. Too often, these tools are not made available for direct download. You could always use the sample to create your own version.  However, in the interest of optimizing your time, we will sometimes adapt these tools for you and make them available via a link in the the article review or in the download section above.  You can also let us know if you would like our assistance in finding or adapting a worksheet or tool you have read about.  And don’t forget to send a copy of any such tool you have found particularly helpful so we can share it with others!
  

** Key: Ftxt=Full Text Link PR=Perspectives (JcE), TS=The Source (JcS), EC=EC News (JcE), CM=CMS, JO=JC Online, TP=JC Topics **[More Abbreviations] **