Your hospital’s refusal to bargain with the Minnesota Nurses Association over safe nurse to patient ratios puts patient care at risk. Be a patient advocate. Speak out today.
What to Look For
- Incomplete documentation – Missing or incomplete patient records, policies, and staff training records.
- Infection control lapses – Lapses in hand hygiene, sterilization, ventilation, air-exchange rates, filtration, and humidity/temperature control.
- Medication errors – Problems with medication storage, labeling, or administration.
- Environmental safety hazards – Unsafe physical environments, including blocked fire exits and improperly stored hazardous materials.
- Medical neglect – Adverse events tied to poor staffing, including hospital-acquired infections (CAUTIs, CLABSIs, VAP), pressure injuries, falls, IV infiltrations, and other nursing-sensitive indicators.
Share your patient safety concern
The Joint Commission
Report a Safety Event about a Health Care Organization
DNV Healthcare
For North Memorial Robbinsdale, Maple Grove, and St. Luke’s.
File a complaint against a DNV Healthcare accredited healthcare organization
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Office of Inspector General
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services EMTALA violations
MN Department of Human Services: Minnesota Adult Abuse Reporting Center (MAARC)
This form is only for use by mandated reporters. It is not anonymous.
MN Department of Health: Office of Health Facility Complaints
Submit an email to MN Department of Health
Minnesota Statute 181.932 DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION BY EMPLOYEES. Subdivision 1. Prohibited action. An employer shall not discharge, discipline, penalize, interfere with, threaten, restrain, coerce, or otherwise retaliate or discriminate against an employee regarding the employee’s compensation, terms, conditions, location, or privileges of employment because: (4) the employee, in good faith, reports a situation in which the quality of health care services provided by a health care facility, organization, or health care provider violates a standard established by federal or state law or a professionally recognized national clinical or ethical standard and potentially places the public at risk of harm