On behalf of the 5,600 plus members of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management, welcome to Healthcare Risk Management Week! This year’s theme, “Getting to Zero™ through the Power of One” highlights ASHRM’s ongoing initiative to help eliminate preventable serious safety events. Our goal will take a collective effort but will happen one person, one leader, one organization at a time. Be sure you and your team are in the game because we’re all in-it-to-win-it for ourselves and our organizations, but more importantly for our patients and their families. We invite you to join us in furthering our goal of Getting to Zero™ during Healthcare Risk Management Week and throughout the year!
Healthcare Risk Management (HRM) Week, June 18-22, 2012, is ASHRM’s annual campaign to raise awareness about the critical role risk management and patient safety professionals play in helping to eliminate preventable serious safety events. Throughout HRM Week, ASHRM is offering tips and solutions that risk managers and patient safety experts can employ to help prevent some of the most common serious safety events, many of which are aligned with the Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) Initiative. Join ASHRM as we celebrate HRM Week and “Getting to Zero™ through the Power of One”—one person, one leader, one organization at a time.
NEW HRM Week eGroup on ASHRM Exchange
What are YOU planning for YOUR organization's HRM Week celebration? Join the NEW HRM Week eGroup on the ASHRM Exchange and get/share ideas with your peers. Click here to join today and get the discussion going!
Now Available: Recorded HRM WEEK WEBINAR: Why Children's National Reduced Serious Safety Events by Nearly 80 percent and How You Can Too
Children's National's experience demonstrates that there is great potential in driving down preventable harm by combining process improvement with behavioral and human factor driven change. In other words, an empowered nurse or doctor, or even environmental service worker, has a significant capacity for communicating and responding to his or her environment in a manner that improves reliability of performance and reduces the risk of missteps or patient harm. Children's National refers to that potential as the "Power of One" — the collective effort that will help "Get to Zero" but will happen one individual, one leader, one organization at a time. If you missed this webinar, you may now purchase a recorded version of the program. If you attended the live webinar but would like to view it again, ASHRM will email you the link to the recorded program. Click Here for more details
2012 HRM Week Quiz is no longer available.
Watch for the 2013 HRM Week Quiz coming soon!
ASHRM HRM Week Toolkit
To help you spread the word about the value that healthcare risk managers provide to your organizations and patients, ASHRM is offering a NEW complimentary communications toolkit in support of HRM Week.
Toolkit materials include:
Healthcare Risk Management Solutions for Top Reported Sentinel Events
Healthcare Risk Management (HRM) Week, June 18-22, 2012, is ASHRM’s annual campaign to raise awareness about the critical role risk management and patient safety professionals play in helping to eliminate preventable serious safety events. Throughout HRM Week, ASHRM is offering solutions that risk managers and patient safety experts can employ to help prevent some of the most common serious safety events, many of which are aligned with the Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) Initiative. Join ASHRM as we countdown to zero during HRM Week. To explore solutions for the top-reported sentinel events and help your organization in "Getting to Zero™ through the Power of One," Click Here...
Just Launched: Risk Management Pearls for the Emergency Department, 2012 Edition
Just in time for HRM Week, ASHRM will release the 2012 edition of Risk Management Pearls for the Emergency Department. This updated ED Pearls details best practices for ED intake, evaluation and discharge processes, and provides methods for communicating with stressed patients. It explains how providers can remain compliant with the EMTALA law, guides them in managing patients transported through the EMS network, and explains complex insurance coverage issues. Click Here to order ED Pearls.
Other Pearls titles offering important risk management tips for HRM Week include:
Also, look for the 2012 edition of Pearls for Behavioral Healthcare Across the Continuum, coming soon.
New! "Guide to Starting a Healthcare Enterprise Risk Management Program"
"A Guide to Starting a Healthcare Enterprise Risk Management Program" is the complete resource for HRM professionals looking to start an enterprise risk management program. The guide includes two eBooks. Read More...
We hope you find the HRM Week resources useful and that you use them all year long. Please continue to read eNews for the latest healthcare risk management news and check back for HRM Week updates.
We welcome your stories and observations from HRM Week. Please share ideas and comments via the ASHRM Exchange or email ashrm@aha.org. Have a great HRM Week!
Barton Certificate in Healthcare Risk Management
The Barton Certificate Program in Healthcare Risk Management, a cornerstone of ASHRM’s risk management professional development opportunities, covers key aspects of risk management while providing continuing education credits. In 2012, the program was significantly revised to provide interactive, learner-centered content, allowing participants to work through healthcare risk management scenarios, make critical decisions, and receive expert mentoring and coaching from a panel of distinguished faculty members and healthcare risk management experts. Click Here...
CPHRM Exam Prep Course
Helping You Prepare for the Premier Credential in Healthcare Risk Management and Patient Safety
The Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management (CPHRM), the premier credential for the risk management profession, is administered by the American Hospital Association's Certification Center, which determines eligibility requirements, exam content, testing procedures and other aspects of the credential and oversees the examination process, Learn More...
Patient Safety Curriculum Certificate Program
Now an Interactive Workshop to Assist Patient Safety and Healthcare Risk Management Professionals in our Joint Progress Toward "Getting to Zero™"
ASHRM’s Patient Safety Curriculum Certificate Program is designed to help healthcare risk management and patient safety professionals understand and apply their key contributions to support improved patient care and outcomes. This dynamic program consists of two sessions; participants may register for one or both. Participants who complete both sessions will earn a Patient Safety Curriculum Certificate.
Patient Safety Track and ASHRM Annual Conference & Exhibition
Aligning risk management and patient safety initiatives is integral to a comprehensive program to guide the delivery of safe, high-quality patient care. Those who attend sessions in the Patient Safety track will learn from the experiences of frontline risk managers and patient safety experts. This track will include inventive systems utilized in the ambulatory, hospital, physician office, post-acute care and aging services environments. Conference speakers will share innovative ideas and strategies in areas such as medication safety, electronic medical records and communications during transitions of care to advance efforts to eliminate serious safety events to help support the mission of "Getting to Zero™". The 2012 ASHRM Annual Conference & Exhibition will be held Oct. 7-10, 2012 in Washington D.C., National Harbor. Registration opens mid-May.Register by August 24 to receive the Early Bird discount!
Professional Development
ASHRM offers a wide range of resources in the ASHRM Online Store to assist in your professional development in healthcare risk management. Check out these NEW ASHRM products:
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To view all our products and publications, Click Here...
NEW! ASHRM Patient Safety Portal
ASHRM has launched its NEW Patient Safety Portal that includes links to valuable tools and resources you can use all year. ASHRM will continue to update the Patient Safety Portal content, and will be your go to resource for Patient Safety information to help you and your organization "Get to Zero™." Click Here to go to ASHRM's NEW Patient Safety Portal!
ASHRM University
With more than 25 courses available, ASHRM University is accessible education for the time-challenged healthcare risk management and patient safety professional. ASHRM webinars also are archived on ASHRM U with 24-hour access. Courses include:
To start earning credit toward fulfillment of the requirements of ASHRM designations of Fellow and Distinguished Fellow, and toward CPHRM renewal, Click Here...
ASHRM Exchange
Staying on top of the healthcare risk management field is easier when you use ASHRM Exchange to connect and share with your fellow healthcare risk managers. ASHRM Exchange is a members-only benefit that allows you to network with other ASHRM members and find out about the latest industry news. Log in Today...
Check back for exciting new HRM week updates! For more information, contact ashrm@aha.org.