Medical Safety

4. enforces safety standards in the workplace
6. not-for-profit organization that works to ensure healthcare organizations provide quality care
7. responsible for Medicare and Medicaid
9. regulating the safety of food and drug
10. When a professional medical provider could have done something to treat a patient but didn’t do so, even though they knew it might harm the
11. the methods the facility uses to carry out its policies.
12. Any unanticipated event in a healthcare setting resulting in death or serious physical or psychological injury to a patient

1. A rule made and maintained by an authority
2. Being legally responsible for causing harm.
3. Promoting the safety and comfort of a person by adapting the
5. Principles that direct the facility’s activities
8. Failure to take reasonable care or steps to prevent loss or injury to another person
13. The agency that protects human health and the environment