Additional Resources on Home Use Devices
Educational Tools
- TSA: Travelers with Disabilities and Medical Conditions
- Home Use Devices Booklet: How to Prepare for and Handle Power Outages for Medical Devices that Require Electricity (PDF - 5.1MB)
- Brochure - Home Healthcare Medical Devices: A Checklist
- Home Healthcare Medical Devices: Blood Glucose Meters - Getting the Most Out of Your Meter
- Brochure - Home Healthcare Medical Devices: Infusion Therapy - Getting the Most Out of Your Pump
- Be Smart with Sharps Pamphlet (PDF - 986KB)
- Safe Sharps Disposal Label (For Garbage Container) (PDF - 926KB)
- Safe Sharps Disposal Label (For Recycling Container)
- Safe Sharps Disposal Medication Insert (PDF - 2.2MB)
- Sharps Container Poster (PDF - 2.7MB)
- Patient Lifts Safety Guide (PDF - 3.8MB)
- For Patients Engagement
Federal Government
- Home Health Quality Initiatives (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
- A Patient Safety Threat - Syringe Reuse (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- CDC's Healthy Homes Initiative
- Questions are the Answer (AHRQ)
- Infusion Pump Improvement Initiative
- Administration for Community Living
Outside Organizations
- American Association for Homecare
- National Association for Home Care & Hospice
- Caregiver Action Network
- Joint Commission - National Patient Safety Goals
- Community Health Accreditation Program
- Accreditation Commission for Health Care, Inc.