Patient Safety Tips

You can help make your health care experience safer. That’s the idea behind a number of OHA and partner initiatives that look at educating patients about being active partners in patient safety. Often it’s a just matter of asking a few simple questions.

To learn more about what you can do, choose from the links below.

Your Health Care - Be Involved: Acute Care Sector

OHA’s five common sense tips engage and encourage patients to become more involved in their health care.

Your Health Care - Be Involved: Home and Community Sector

OHA’s five common sense tips engage and encourage patients to become more involved in their health care.

 Clean Hands Protect Lives

OHA and Ministry of Health and Long Term Care's campaign is designed to educate patients about the importance of hand washing.

CPSI provides leadership and coordinates activities necessary to build a culture of patient safety.

Ministry of Health and Long Term Care - Patient Safety

This site features information for patients, health care professionals and the public on patient safety issues.