Awareness is growing about medical errors, dangers and tragedies stemming from poor quality health care – but, first learning about the true scope and severity of errors, risks, harm and costs is often stunning to most people.
Without effective training or tools, the risks can be significant for deaths, disabilities, injuries, prolonged recoveries and initial and ongoing financial losses.
Survival Guide for Better Health Care training and tools are designed to help employees and their families avoid medical errors, complications and other forms of poor quality care that can be prevented.
HPN’s health care safety resources and services include:
- Survival Guide for Better Health Care manual and DVD (with main program plus 30 key topics/stories)
- Group-specific resource reminder (e.g. 800#s, web site), Ask-the-Doctor visit tools and wallet cards
- Worksite trainers, train-the-trainer and mail options
- Support for strategy development, customization, implementation and evaluation
Features & Benefits
Survival Guide resources empower and help employees and families:
- Build effective health teams – with a good main doctor
- Improve visits with doctors to improve quality of care, efficiencies and results
- Avoid medical test/diagnostic-related errors, unwanted risks and complications
- Prevent medication/supplement errors, needless risks and complications
- Prevent surgery-related errors, infections and complications
- Improve use of key resources available through the employer and health plan
- Avoid financial and other losses – personal, family, health plan and employer
Results & Returns
With Survival Guide resources and intiatives, your organization can:
- Help employees and family members improve the use and quality of health care, prevent needless medical errors, risks, complications, related tragedies and related expenses, missed work (absenteeism) and loss of income
- Avoid financial losses due to medical errors, poor care, lack of proper planning, other health care consumer competencies and related consequences
- Realize added savings via improved quality of care, healing and consumer skills
- Conserve health care funds by avoiding errors, poor care and related costs – to free up dollars for needed quality care and to offset rising health costs
Materials Include
For every employee / family
- Survival Guide for Better Health Care
– 50 page manual with pocket folder
- DVD w/ Main Program & 30 Bonus Chapters
- Reminder Page: Our Resources &
1st Stop Web Site ... for Better Health Care
- Ask-the-Doctor Visit Tools & Wallet-Cards
- Program Evaluation
Training Options
At the worksite
• 30-60 minute programs via HPN trainers
• Train-the-trainer, empowering your trainers to deliver the resources effectively
• New hire support kits & e-Learning
Direct to the home and famiily
• Direct mail
• DVD, e-Learning & other resources
Customization Options
- Remider Page & Doctor Visit Tools are the most cost-effective way to reinforce & promote group specific support resources
– e.g., EAP, DM & nurse line 800#s & web
site – available via the employer & health plan
- Guide & DVD can also be customized
- To maximize strategy success, add:
See related summaries.
Order Information
With order quantities for less than 500 employees/families:
- Consider using our online HPN Store
- Or if you prefer, call us at 1.630.941.9030
Please contact us at 1.630.941.9030 or by email:
- For larger organizations, rates, quotes and orders
- To explore customization options and needs
- To explore implementation support options
- When shipping outside the U.S.
- If you have any questions
We look forward to hearing from you.
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