Care Planning

Care Planning and Checklists!

Care planning is an essential component to care and to ensure that you understand the care that you receive. The Department of Public Health & Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) has a wonderful tool that provides questions to ask - your doctor, surgeon, phamacist etc. or you can create a customized checklist of questions to take with you.

The Joint Commission on Accredition of Health Care Organization's (JCAHO) SpeakUP Initiatives has a number of helpful and informative brochures ranging from preventing infection during your stay to research studies.

Helpful Links

Questions Are the Answer — AHRQ's web site offers prebuilt questions to ask regarding your care and enables you to create customized checklists to print and take with you!

SpeakUP- JCAHO's brochures (in PDF) offer helpful information on a variety of health related topics.