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Working together with your healthcare team, ASP provides infection prevention technologies and solutions that are used to sterilize and disinfect the surgical instruments used in the hospital and help keep you safe from sickness-causing germs and bacteria.
Educational Resources
The Healthcare and Patient Partnership Institute
Read moreLearn how healthcare providers and patients and families can work together to effect safer delivery of care, help realize better expected medical outcomes, reduce risk and liability, reduce medical costs and advance an authentic culture of safety throughout the U.S.
Interactive Map Ranking U.S. Hospitals by Patient Experience
Read moreWant to see how hospital patient experience stacks up across the country? A new map can help you do just that. Bob Hayes, PhD, chief customer officer at TCELab, has color-coded hospitals across the United States based on their Patient Advocacy Index score in a new, interactive map
Consumer Reports:How to Choose a Hospital
Read moreBefore checking into a hospital, check out this "how-to" on selecting a good hospital.
Healthcare Performance Tracking Tool
Read moreHHS has launched a new Web-based tool intended to make it easier for consumers to monitor and measure the nation's healthcare system's performance. Compare trends across measures and compare national trends with those at the state and regional level.
Compare Hospitals - The Leapfrog Group
Read moreCompare hospitals on overall patient safety ratings and safety of selected procedures.
Compare Hospitals – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Read moreAnother interactive Web site to compare hospitals on various performance measures.
Compare Hospitals - Cal Hospital Compare
Read moreEnables you to compare selected hospitals on dozens of measures, including infection prevention, intensive care mortality rate and overall patient experience. The site, run by the California HealthCare Foundation, offers the option of searching by hospital name, location or medical condition.
Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work – U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Read moreWhen you feel sick, antibiotics may not be the answer for every illness. This site helps you know when antibiotics work and when they won't.
List of the top 40 Quietest Hospitals, as Rated by Patients
Read moreThe following hospitals obtained the 40 highest scores on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems rating for "Percent of patients who reported that the area around their room was 'always' quiet."
Getting Safer Care– Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Read moreGet information on how to prevent common medical errors, get quality care, and educational information when using hospitals and clinics.
Hand Washing: Clean Hands Save Lives
Read moreKeeping hands clean through improved hand hygiene is one of the most important steps we can take to avoid getting sick and spreading germs to others.
Hand Washing: Clean Hands Save Lives– U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Read moreKeeping hands clean through improved hand hygiene is one of the most important steps we can take to avoid getting sick and spreading germs to others.
Healthcare Organization Quality Check – The Joint Commission
Read moreAllows consumers to search for accredited and cerified organizations by city and state, by name or zip code. Download free hospital performance measure results.
Healthcare Providers Rate Card - Informed Patient Institute
Read moreRates the usefulness of online doctor, hospital, and nursing home report cards.
Making Care Safer – U.S. Deparment of Health and Human Services
Read moreProvides information on how to prepare your hospital stay for success, eliminate all-cause harm, and hospital enagement networks.
Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections – U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Read moreBefore you visit a hospital as a patient or visitor, check out these tips to ensure safety for you and your loved ones.
Safe Care Campaign
Read moreFounded by Victoria and Armando Nahum in 2006 after 3 different members of their family were infected in 3 different hospitals in 3 different states in just 10 months’ time. Their son, Joshua died from an infection acquired in the hospital, but not until after gram negative bacteria in his skull caused so much pressure around his brain that it pushed part of his brain into his spinal column, making him a permanent ventilator-dependent quadriplegic.
Safe Injection Practices: Safe Injection Practices Coalition
Read moreRaises awareness among patients and healthcare providers about safe injection practices. The campaign aims to eradicate outbreaks resulting from unsafe injection practices.
Safe Patient Project - American Healthcare Association’s Patient Care Partnership Consumer’s Union
Read moreView disclosures of healthcare outcomes (such as hospital-acquired infection rates and incidents of medical errors) and information about healthcare providers (such as complaints against and license violations of physicians and hospitals). The campaign also works to improve drug safety by ensuring that consumers have full information about prescription drugs (such as in direct-to-consumer ads and access to clinical trial results), by strengthening oversight of the FDA and by ending practices that create conflicts of interest (such as drug company gifts to doctors)
Speak Up: Prevent Errors In Your Care–The Joint Commission
Read moreHow to talk to your doctor about any worries you have about your safety and ask them what they are doing to protect you.
The Innovation Center– Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Read moreLearn the latest ways CMS is delivering care that improves care and health while lowering costs.
Vital Signs – U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Read moreIssues include colorectal and breast cancer screening, obesity, alcohol and tobacco use, access to health care, HIV testing, seat belt use, cardiovascular disease, teen pregnancy and healthcare-associated infections, asthma, and foodborne disease.
Vaccinations - How To and When
Read moreAn innovative new Web site to help parents and other consumers learn about the most effective way to protect themselves and their children from infectionous diseases and learn about immunization.
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