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Optimizing a Business Case for Safe Healthcare: An Integrated Approach to Safety and Finance

This toolkit equips patient safety and finance leaders with tools and a collaborative approach to make a compelling business case for organizational investments to advance patient and workforce safety initiatives.

Highlights

  • Developing the business case for safe care
  • Guidelines to assess organizational readiness for a safety initiative, gather information and data, draft a business case for the work, and deliver a presentation to decision makers
  • Readiness checklists
  • Business case template and sample
  • Presentation template and sample
  • Additional resources

Patient and workforce safety should be a core value of healthcare organizations, but given limited resources, investments in safety must be weighed against other priorities. Collaboration of safety and financial leaders is essential to creating and presenting a solid business case for safety work.

This toolkit includes specific recommendations and practices for safety and finance leaders to develop a business case for safety, and provides a framework for advancing patient and workforce safety.

  • The main document offers guidelines to assess organizational readiness for a safety initiative, gather information and data, draft a business case for the work, and deliver a presentation to decision makers.
  • Associated tools and templates are included to help organize and present the work.
     
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