Scoring Hospital Safety
Here is a consumer's checklist to score your hospital's safety on a scale of 1 to 10. Remember that even if your hospital scores 10, you will need to take some measures to protect yourself or your loved ones.
| Hospital Checklist |
Score (1 for yes, 0 for no) |
| Balanced budget |
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| Good labor relations |
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| All corridors clear |
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| Free of foul odors |
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| Care plan conferences include patient or family |
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| Operating room staffed twenty-four hours/day |
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| Nursing recruitment and retention program |
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| Staffing prescheduled with adequate numbers |
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| Zero tolerance for patient trauma |
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| Patient satisfaction survey forms provided |
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| Patient satisfaction survey forms provided |
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| Total score | |