Healthcare setting guides
Safety and quality guides for every healthcare setting
Each care setting has its own risks, regulations and ways of working. These guides set out the requirements for each setting, what to prioritize first and how safety reporting and quality improvement fit the way your teams work.
Start here
- By healthcare settingQuality improvement tools built for community hospitalsHow community hospitals can run safety reporting and quality improvement with a small team: the CMS requirements and what to prioritize first.
- By healthcare settingSafety reporting for outpatient clinics and ambulatory surgery centersSafety event reporting for outpatient clinics and ambulatory surgery centers: ASC QAPI rules, ASCQR measures, Universal Protocol and first priorities.
- By healthcare settingStandardizing quality improvement across multi-site health systemsHow to standardize safety reporting and quality improvement across hospitals and sites: unified QAPI options, shared taxonomy and site-level autonomy.
Put it into practice
Programs that turn this guidance into everyday work
Safety ReportingEvery setting needs safety events routed to the right review team and tracked to action.Explore Safety Reporting →
Quality ReportingGive each quality measure an owner and a review cadence, rolled up across sites and service lines.Explore Quality Reporting →
Improvement ProjectsTurn what reporting reveals into A3s and PDSA cycles with measures attached.Explore Improvement Projects →
More guides
The challenges, regulations and first priorities for each care setting.
- Patient safety for rural and critical access hospitalsSafety reporting and quality improvement for rural and critical access hospitals: CAH QAPI requirements, MBQIP, and what a small team should do first.
- Improvement management for academic medical centersManaging quality improvement across departments, service lines and training programs: ACGME expectations for residents, CLER findings and first priorities.
- Quality improvement for home health agenciesSafety reporting and quality improvement for home health agencies: QAPI, OASIS-E2, the expanded HHVBP model and what a field-based team should do first.
- Safety and quality reporting for nursing homes and long-term careIncident reporting and QAPI for nursing homes: 2-hour and 24-hour reporting rules, state surveys, Five-Star, SNF VBP and what to prioritize first.
- Quality improvement for hospice and palliative careQuality improvement and safety reporting for hospice and palliative care: hospice QAPI, HOPE, CAHPS Hospice and events in the context of goals of care.
- Safety reporting for behavioral health and psychiatric facilitiesSafety reporting for psychiatric and behavioral health settings: restraint and seclusion rules, ligature risk, IPFQR measures and first priorities.
- Quality improvement for rehabilitation facilitiesQuality and safety for inpatient rehabilitation: IRF QRP measures, Section GG functional outcomes, falls during therapy and what to prioritize first.
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