Quality Improvement & Patient Safety

AHS Improvement Way (AIW) is a common organization-wide approach for solving problems, making improvements and managing change based on LEAN and Six Sigma principles.

AHASTI offers a variety of First Aid, CPR and pre-hospital courses in Alberta.

We collaborate with decision-makers to tackle difficult questions about how to organize, finance, manage and deliver high-quality, affordable, patient- and family-centred healthcare for Canadians. We are confident that by working with partners we can reshape healthcare in Canada to improve its quality and results. That’s why we work at the nexus of health policy and delivery—the point where meaningful breakthroughs happen with direct benefits to patients. - See more at: http://www.cfhi-fcass.ca/AboutUs.aspx#sthash.u6yAZBgI.dpuf

A not-for-profit organization that exists to raise awareness and facilitate implementation of ideas and best practices to achieve a transformation in patient safety.

We are a team of individuals with many different skills committed to helping Saskatchewan’s health system make care better and safer for the people of Saskatchewan.

We find opportunities to improve patient safety and health service quality for Albertans.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.

ASQ is a global community of people passionate about quality, who use the tools, their ideas and expertise to make the world work better.

The CDC A-Z Index is a navigational and informational tool that makes the CDC.gov Web site easier to use. It helps you quickly find and retrieve specific information. The A-Z index is structured so that synonyms, acronyms, and cross-referencing provide multiple ways for you to access the topics and features on CDC.gov. The index includes common and scientific terms to meet the needs of consumers as well as health professionals

​​Find alerts, advisories, and recommendations from patientsafety, quality​, and healthcare organizations from around the world.

The Healthcare Value Network unites healthcare leaders who share a commitment to providing high-quality, cost-effective care through the application of lean concepts. Our members develop peer-to-peer relationships, share knowledge, conduct real-world experiments and access the best resources to accelerate their organization’s lean transformation

IHI is a leading innovator and driver of results in health and health care improvement.

Tools and resources for safe medication practices.

An organization aimed at providing research and pragmatic solutions to enable organizations from any industry to learn the tools and techniques for managing quality and performance excellence.

The Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc. (LEI) is a nonprofit education, publishing, research, and conference organization that develops hypotheses about lean thinking and experiment to see which approaches work best in the real world, writes up and teaches what they discover, providing new methods for organizational transformation.