Patient Safety Improvement Toolkit

Are you starting a patient safety improvement program at your dialysis facility or looking for ways to reenergize staff to focus on safety issues? The Keeping Kidney Patients Safe web site's Patient Safety Improvement Program Toolkit can help. This toolkit includes information, planning tools and promotional materials to assist you in planning and executing a safety improvement program to help fulfill the CMS Conditions for Coverage for End Stage Renal Disease Facilities.

	Patient Safety Improvement Plan Basics (PDF 55 Kb)
	Staff Activity Planning Guide (PDF 106 Kb)
	ESRD Patient Safety Annotated Bibliography (PDF 236 Kb)
	MAC and Forum of ESRD Networks Conditions for Coverage Toolkits

	Keeping Kidney Patients Safe Posters
	Patient Safety Articles for nephrology practice or patient newsletters
	Keeping Kidney Patients Safe Screensaver for staff computers
	Dialysis Safety: What Patients Need to Know is a take-home resource for dialysis patients. The tool should be printed, either double- or single-sided, and assembled as a booklet. Please make the brochure available to your patients. This tool may be customized. For example: it is possible to insert your facility's name and contact information on the cover and last page. You may type your information where you see "click here to enter facility information". You may also cover this area with a sticker.