Health Care Risk Management Week (HRM Week)
HRM Week recognizes and celebrates health care risk professionals who play a pivotal role in ensuring safe and trusted patient care and safeguarding the well-being of staff. Each year ASHRM offers special educational events, resources and activities designed to shine a light on different risk management areas and honor the impact our members make within the health care community.
ASHRM HRM Week is Sponsored by 
Announcing ASHRM’s 2025–2027 Strategic Plan: Shaping the Future of Health Care Risk Management
ASHRM is excited to launch its 2025–2027 Strategic Plan during HRM Week, a time dedicated to celebrating and advancing the profession. This ambitious new plan charts a path forward by embracing innovation, strengthening leadership, and amplifying advocacy across the field of health care risk management. Developed in collaboration with members and risk professional leaders, the plan is designed to deliver timely insights, expand ASHRM’s global reach, and enhance member value at every career stage.
HRM Week Live Webinar Highlighting Risk Professionals
- JUNE20
Top 10 ERM Trends and Risks
Uncover the most pressing challenges in Enterprise Risk Management for 2025, understand why these issues are crucial today, and learn effective strategies to mitigate identified risks.
HRM Week Activity
A printable, fun word search for the entire team:
Download and share with your team to highlight terms that represent risk management.
Celebrate with Themed Gifts
HRM Week gifts are an easy way to show your appreciation for your team and raise awareness of the risk management profession. These new gifts are now available to order.
Discover Risk Management Tools & Resources
Celebrate HRM Week with a spotlight on essential tools designed to support safer care, stronger teams, and smarter risk strategies. Whether you're on the frontlines or in leadership, there's something here to help empower your organization during HRM Week and beyond.
Special Edition of the Journal of Health Care Risk Management
HRM Week
Delve into the latest insights and strategies in health care risk management, exploring topics ranging from social risk and health inequity to violence in the workplace, alongside practical guides for mitigating audit log-related risk and cultivating leadership skillsets for high-reliability organizations.
You can purchase CE credits for the following articles (read them and complete a short quiz to claim your credit):
- Integrating enterprise risk management to address AI-related risks in health care: Strategies for effective risk mitigation and implementation
- Beyond error: A qualitative study of human factors in serious adverse events
- A guide to mitigating audit log-related risk in medical professional liability cases
- The necessary leadership skillsets for the high-reliability organization framework adoption within acute health care organizations
ASHRM White Paper to Help You Stay Resilient
Strategies for Promoting Risk Management Professional Resilience
This white paper addresses the emotional and psychological challenges faced by health care risk management professionals. It highlights the negative perceptions and emotional burdens these professionals endure, often leading to significant stress and burnout.
Celebrate 25 Years of Risk Professionals Getting Certified
Earn the Certified Professional in Health Care Risk Management
Join in and become a Certified Professional in Health Care Risk Management (CPHRM) to demonstrate your experience and expertise in health care risk management. The CPHRM is the profession's top certification and is a prerequisite for many of the best jobs in the field.
HRM Week Promotional Templates
Use these downloadable promotional templates to enhance your HRM Week communications. These materials can help guide you in raising awareness of the importance of risk management and patient safety professionals.
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This tip card provides four ways which health care workers can play a critical role in patient safety. Print and distribute this card to your coworkers. Download Tip Card
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Answers to frequently asked questions about the health care risk management profession to share with your colleagues and help them discover what HRM week is all about. Download FAQs
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Information about what risk professionals do, their qualifications, their involvement when crises occur, and how they advance safe and trusted health care. Download Key Messages
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Share this document with an associate who is interested in the health care risk profession. This overview defines what risk professionals do, how to become a risk professionals and why health care risk management is a rewarding career. Download Overview
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Utilize our PPT template to create a presentation showcasing your work and the significant impact of the health care risk profession. Download Template
Podcasts: Health Care Risk Professional Journeys
Joann Wortham-Moody, RN, DNP, JD, CPHRM
Joann Wortham-Moody, ASHRM’s Risk Professional of the Year, is a global thought leader whose career spans nursing education, health care risk management, law, and business leadership. As an author, consultant, and executive director, she’s made a lasting impact across the field. In this interview, she shares her journey and key insights.
Josh Hyatt, DHS, MBE, MHL, DFASHRM, CPHRM, CPPS, HEC-C
Josh Hyatt discusses his career in risk management, as a bioethics expert, and an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. He shares his experience working with ASHRM and as a speaker and author.
Katherine Du Fresne, RN, MSN, CPHRM
Katherine Du Fresne discusses her journey from being a nurse to being a risk manager and her time working as a risk management consultant. She'll also elaborate on her position as the Executive Director of Clinical Risk Management for Indiana University Health.
Rodney Melton, MHA, BSN, RN, CPHRM
Join Rodney Melton, Manager of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management at Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas, Texas on his journey from an EMT to a health care leader. Listen in as Rodney shares insights into industry challenges and what he has learned over 20 years in the profession.
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