In a healthcare environment, risk management focuses on threats or harmful situations through identification, analysis, reduction and prevention. Quality improvement focuses on performance and ways to improve it based on standards that are constantly reviewed and improved. Both are essential in any healthcare situation. Both programs work cooperatively to provide a safe environment and a high standard of patient care. Good leadership, promoting a culture of change and safety, and teamwork are essential to implementing quality improvement and risk management in the organization. Leaders and the governing body must demonstrate commitment to the processes and set their expectations for all stakeholders. The leadership team should ensure that the team's attention is focused on the organization's core business of providing care and treating patients in a safe, high-quality clinical environment. There are several tools that can be used for quality improvement and they also apply to the analysis of risk problems. These are quality measurement, benchmarking, RCA, FMECA and so on