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# Healthcare Whirlwind Model Posters

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**Patient safety incidents**, near misses, and unsafe conditions are constantly occurring within healthcare organizations, even if most go unreported. For years, healthcare has relied on the **Iceberg Model** to illustrate that the visible problems are only the "tip of the iceberg," while the majority remain hidden beneath the surface.

At **ADNPSO**, we’ve taken this model further by flipping it upside down to create the **Whirlwind Model**, designed to operationalize the complexities of patient safety. The **Whirlwind Model** provides a comprehensive visual of the key functions, compliance efforts, and collaborative processes that must be aligned to deliver **safe patient care**.

Unlike a linear path from admission to discharge, patients encounter countless interactions with healthcare professionals and navigate thousands of process steps, each presenting opportunities for errors and defects. By embracing this complexity and executing coordinated, well-designed care strategies, organizations can effectively reduce **patient risk and harm**. A critical step in this process is properly categorizing **patient safety data** and uncovering the root causes of systemic issues, as highlighted in our [**patient safety data analysis**](https://www.americandatanetwork.com/patient-safety/patient-safety-analysis-other-events-reveal-3x-higher-mortality-rate-among-key-findings/) article.

**Ready to implement these insights into your organization’s safety strategy?** Download the **Healthcare Whirlwind Model Posters** to visualize and communicate the steps necessary for safer, more coordinated care. Start leveraging these tools to reveal and address hidden risks in your facility’s processes today.

### Healthcare Whirlwind Model Posters

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Since 1994, we’ve made it our mission to be the company you can trust to understand your healthcare quality and patient safety needs and to develop customized solutions and services to meet them. We serve healthcare providers across multiple care settings, including hospitals from all across the country, ranging in size from 10 beds to 800. Our suite of services and data applications, which are consistently updated to meet ever-changing guidelines, includes: a [Core Measures & Registries Data Abstraction Service](https://www.americandatanetwork.com/data-abstraction/), a [Core Measures Application](https://www.americandatanetwork.com/core-measures/), a [Patient Safety Event Reporting Application](https://www.americandatanetwork.com/patient-safety-event-reporting-application/), a [Clinical Benchmarking System](https://www.americandatanetwork.com/clinical-benchmarking/), and [Performance Reporting System](https://www.americandatanetwork.com/prs/).

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