Optimizing your Perioperative Supply Chain: A Guide to Improvement Projects
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Informed by hospitals undertaking improvement projects and written by a committee of subject matter experts, this guide is designed to help executives and a cross-disciplinary team of hospital staff successfully complete their own perioperative supply chain improvement project
To download individual chapters, click here.
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Suicide Risk Assessment: A Resource Guide for Health Care Organizations
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On September 23, 2011, the OHA, in partnership with the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI), released: Suicide Risk Assessment: A Resource Guide for Health Care Organizations.
The first resource of its kind, the guide is designed to assist health care organizations with standardizing the process of high-quality suicide risk assessment by presenting a framework for suicide risk assessment and identifying suicide risk assessment tools.
To access the background document, click here.
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OHA Expense Policy Guidelines, 2011
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The Hospital Expense Policy Guidelines have been developed as a useful framework to guide hospitals in developing their expense policies in the areas of personal business expenses, hospitality, and corporate events. They have been updated to align with the 2011 BPS Expenses Directive.
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OHA Primer: A Practical Guide for Hospitals Preparing for FIPPA Implementation
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On January 1, 2012, Ontario hospitals will become subject to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA). The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) has developed this Primer to help hospitals prepare for their FIPPA accountabilities. Specifically, this document lists action items and priorities for hospitals to accomplish over the next two months.
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Leading Practices in Emergency Department Patient Experience
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The Leading Practices in Emergency Department Patient Experience Review is a worldwide review of factors that influence the Emergency Department (ED) patient experience and a portfolio of promising improvement strategies supported by evidence from literature and key informant interviews.
To access the Snapshot of Worldwide Leading Practices in Emergency Department Patient Experience, click here
To access the Improving the Emergency Department Patient Experience: A Guide to Developing Rapid Improvement Surveys, click here.
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Leading Practices for Addressing Clinical Manager Span of Control in Ontario
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Leading Practices for Addressing Clinical Manager Span of Control (SOC) in Ontario identifies key leading practices and strategies that health care employers can consider to assist in alleviating negative impacts of large manager spans of control on staff and patients.
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OHA HR Benchmarking Guidebook
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The OHA Human Resources (HR) Benchmarking Guidebook is one among several resources the OHA has developed as part of its efforts to establish a provincial HR Benchmarking Program for health care in partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Saratoga.
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A Guidebook to Patient Safety Leading Practices: 2010
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The 2010 Patient Safety Leading Practices Guidebook - Advancing Patient Safety through Ideas and Innovations, aims to highlight and share innovative patient safety initiatives in Ontario hospitals, focused on four themes: boards and leadership, teamwork and
communication, transparency of data and accountability, and patient and family and engagement.
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Medical Devices Licensing Issues: A Primer
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This primer provides information regarding the hospital responsibilities and requirements of the Medical Devices Regulations under the Food and Drugs Act about licensing and the safe use of medical devices.
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Patient Safety: Leading Practice in Ontario, 2008
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Offering a diverse range of excellent projects by Ontario hospitals in the area of patient safety.
All leading practices in this Guide were thoroughly assessed by an expert review committee comprised of representatives from Accreditation Canada, Health Insurance Reciprocal of Canada (HIROC), the OHA, and the OHA’s Patient Safety Leadership Council.
The Guide showcases projects from a range of organizations including large teaching hospitals, medium-sized community hospitals, and small and rural organizations.
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Patient Safety: Leading Practice in Ontario, 2006
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This Guide offers insight into innovative initiatives from hospitals across Ontario, and provides examples of practical, effective patient safety strategies that hospitals can explore, learn from and potentially initiate within their own facility.
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