The 2014 Guidelines for Health Care Facilities: Design and Construction of Hospitals and Outpatient Facilities will address the need to create safe environments to promote safe medication use. As a major patient safety consideration, the Health Guidelines Revision Committee is dedicated to supporting all facets of this process. The speaker will link the safety rule’s importance to CMS' Value-Based Purchasing Program, which will begin in 2013. Attendees will learn about new ideas, equipment, and techniques in medication safety. This session will enable attendees to:

Discuss facilities-based environment basics for promoting safe medication use in an effort to reduce the risk of medication errors.
Name three medication safety practices that are supported by implementing the 2014 Guidelines.
Discuss and explain the importance of the physical environment and the correct application of medication safety initiatives.
Employ strategies to reduce the number of patient medication errors.