UAB Medicine New Employee Guidebook UABHR-273_0405_RD5-SR-CMYK_ƒ-single | Page 13

Corporate Compliance
Corporate Compliance provides guidance for our organization to conduct business
with integrity and in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws and regulatory
requirements. You will be required to undergo annual training.
How do you report a compliance issue? Contact the UAB Ethics Hotline by calling 1.866.362.9476
or visit uab.edu/ethics. All reports are strictly confidential.
Risk Management
UAB Medicine maintains an Office of Risk Management to make Owning It easy by
reporting incidents such as mistakes or patient falls. This office also helps deal with
legal matters such as lawsuits, living wills, patient consent, and more.
How do you report an adverse event? Call 205.996.SAFE or visit riskmgt.hs.uab.edu.
Department of Quality and Patient Safety
The Department of Quality and Patient Safety helps assure safe, timely, efficient, effective,
equitable and patient-centered care for those we serve by facilitating process improvement
teams, adverse event investigation, data and process analysis, and education.
Employee Health
The Office of Employee Health helps you stay healthy so you can keep our patients healthy.
Employee Health assists with yearly TB tests, needle sticks, and vaccinations, including
the annual flu vaccine.
The Joint Commission
An independent, not-for-profit organization that accredits and certifies health care
organizations in the United States. Joint Commission Accreditation is a symbol of quality.
HIPAA
We also follow all federal standards for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act of 1996.
Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Diversity, inclusion, fairness, civility, and mutual respect are defining features of our culture
at UAB Medicine. Every day, we seek ways to actively promote and recognize principles of
fairness and equity in relation to, and across, intersections of race, age, color, disability, faith,
religion, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, social class, economic
class, ethnicity, gender identity, gender expression, and all other identities represented
among our employees, patients, and families.