Hospital Readiness Self-Check
Ten questions on workplace violence prevention, your secure physical environment, Texas law, and AI governance — scored against the frameworks surveyors and regulators actually use. See your readiness band and your top gaps instantly; the detailed report follows by email.
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Healthcare and social assistance workers experience workplace-violence injuries at roughly five times the all-industry rate — 14.2 cases per 10,000 full-time workers vs. 2.9 across all industries.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Workplace Violence 2021–2022 (national figures)
$18.27B
The total annual burden of violence to U.S. hospitals — $3.62B in pre-event prevention and preparedness plus $14.65B in post-event costs, covering community and workplace violence.
Source: American Hospital Association, The Burden of Violence to U.S. Hospitals (June 2025, measuring 2023 costs)
How it works
- Answer 10 questions — Yes, Partially, or No — across four domains. About three minutes.
- See your score free — your readiness band and your three biggest gaps, right here.
- Unlock the detailed report — per-domain scores, what “good” looks like for each gap, and a 90-day action sequence, delivered through our short request form.
No account. Your answers stay in this browser — only the form at the end is sent to us.
Your top gaps
This self-check is general information, not legal, compliance, or accreditation advice. It does not determine Joint Commission or Texas compliance. G&F Consulting is an independent advisory firm; no guaranteed outcomes.
Get the detailed report
Your band and top gaps above are free. The full report — the part you can take into a leadership meeting — is delivered through our short request form, the same one used on our hospital security resource page.
- Per-domain scores across all four domains, so you can see exactly where the exposure concentrates.
- What “good” looks like for your highest-priority gaps, grounded in the actual standards and statute.
- A 90-day action sequence — sequenced first moves, owners, and evidence to collect.
Having trouble with the form? Email info@gftotalsolutions.com and we’ll send it directly.
Your detailed report
Scores by domain
Highest-priority gaps — and what “good” looks like
Your 90-day action sequence
Sequenced for a hospital leadership team: close the legal and governance basics first, build the evidence habit second, then harden and validate.
The frameworks behind this self-check
- NPG 2a — Preventing Workplace Violence (NPG.02.04.01)
- The Joint Commission’s National Performance Goals chapter for hospitals and critical access hospitals took effect January 1, 2026, replacing the National Patient Safety Goals chapter — 14 measurable goals under Accreditation 360. The chapter introduces no new requirements; it consolidates existing ones into a continuous-performance framework. NPG 2a carries forward the workplace violence prevention expectations: leadership oversight, a designated individual reporting patterns and trends to the governing body, data collection and analysis, post-incident response, training at hire, annually, and at role change, and a non-punitive reporting culture.
- NPG 11 — Secure Physical Environment
- A secure physical environment is one of the 14 National Performance Goals. This self-check asks about it in general terms — controlled access to sensitive areas, location-level security risk assessment, and duress/RTLS systems validated in practice — because readiness is demonstrated by evidence those systems work, not by the fact that they were installed.
- Texas Chapter 331 — Workplace Violence Prevention (SB 240, 2023)
- SB 240 of the 88th Legislature (2023) created Texas Health & Safety Code Chapter 331. It took effect September 1, 2023, with compliance required by September 1, 2024. Covered facilities, including hospitals, must adopt, implement, and enforce a written workplace violence prevention policy and plan, maintain a workplace violence committee (or use an authorized existing committee) that reviews the plan at least annually, provide annual training, and make the plan available on request to providers and employees. There is no filing with DSHS — enforcement sits with HHSC, and violations are treated as licensing-law violations.
- RUAIH — Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare
- The Joint Commission’s voluntary certification for the responsible use of AI in healthcare, announced June 1, 2026. It is organized around five areas: governance; effective data management; risk and bias reduction; monitoring, evaluating, and validating; and transparency, education, and training. It certifies an organization’s governance — not individual AI products — and it is voluntary, not mandatory. Governance is cheapest to build before an AI system is deployed, not after.
- Sources: Joint Commission, National Performance Goals chapter (effective Jan 1, 2026) and HAP NPG Report (NPG.02.04.01); Joint Commission RUAIH certification announcement (June 1, 2026); Texas SB 240, 88th Legislature (2023), Health & Safety Code Chapter 331; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Workplace Violence 2021–2022; American Hospital Association, The Burden of Violence to U.S. Hospitals (June 2025).
Want a second set of eyes on your gaps?
Book a free 45-minute readiness call with G&F Consulting’s Physical Security & AI practice. We’ll walk your self-check results, pressure-test the evidence behind them, and map the first moves — no obligation, and no sales script.
This self-check is general information, not legal, compliance, or accreditation advice. It does not determine Joint Commission or Texas compliance. G&F Consulting is an independent advisory firm; no guaranteed outcomes.