Patient safety

Promoting a culture of safe care

• Patient safety comes first
• Patient safety is every patient's right
• Patient safety is every employee's responsibility
  

You can review the patient safety measures that we are monitoring and our performance below

Your role in getting safe care

You are the most important member of your health care team. When you visit our clinics and hospitals we encourage you to speak with your physicians and other team members to clarify information and instructions. Your care team will share with you additional education materials and instruction sheets, or they'll refer you to the wealth of information that is currently available on our website.  

The more you understand your care, the better and safer it will be. Participating in your care is easy.

• Follow these important steps when you visit our medical offices or hospitals.
• Stay up-to-date with your personal health information on kp.org and email or call your doctor if there is anything you think is out of date or in error. kp.org allows you to view most test results, check past visit information, email your doctor with non-urgent questions*, make routine appointments, request prescription refills, and more.
• Visit other websites to learn more about patient safety:
  
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement
  • National Quality Forum
  • The Joint Commission
  • The Leapfrog Group
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services