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New! 2/4/2010 Read RN feedback from a recent LifeWings training project at Community Regional Medical Center (CRMC) in Fresno, California.

 

New! 1/3/2010 LifeWings congratulates our clients who were selected for the 2009 List of Top Hospitals from the Leapfrog Group. We have had the honor of working with eight of the 45 hospitals selected who are "delivering the best quality care in the nation while attaining the highest levels of efficiency." The survey is the only national, public comparison of hospitals on issues including mortality rates for certain common procedures, infection rates, safety practices, and measures of efficiency.  These LifeWings client hospitals were selected.

  • California Pacific Medical Center - Davies Campus

  • California Pacific Medical Center - California Campus

  • California Pacific Medical Center - Pacific Campus

  • University of California Davis Medical Center

  • Rush University Medical Center

  • Vanderbilt University Hospital

  • Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

  • The Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt

 

9/17/09 Read about LifeWings client Oakwood Hospital and their CRM/patient safety improvement plan in Outpatient Surgery 1st Annual OR Excellence Awards.

 

8/31/09 The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert urging leaders to do more to prevent medical areas  "...Leadership is a critical function in promoting high quality, safe health care... When a sentinel event occurs in a health care organization, inadequate or ineffective leadership is often one of the contributing factors..."  Read more

 

8/20/09 Congratulations to LifeWings' clients Memorial Hospital Miramar and Memorial Hospital West for being Consumer Reports’ "Top-Five Highest Rated South Florida Hospitals." Ratings can be seen at Consumer Reports but a subscription is necessary to see details.

 

7/07/09 Read about LifeWings' client Memorial Hospital and their latest accomplishment Memorial Regional Hospital Honored for High-Quality Patient Care and Operational Efficiency by Premier Healthcare Alliance —One of Only 23 Hospitals Recognized Nationwide

 

4Article on Patient Safety Goals for Pediatrics

 

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LifeWings can help you improve:

 

Patient Safety

Improve patient safety with the LifeWings Patient Safety Improvement Program. This comprehensive program helps your facility adopt and sustain a culture of safety for better patient and financial outcomes. Our program, successful in more than 85 organizations and featured in more than 30 major media outlets, consists of:

 

·         A thorough risk assessment of your facility, staff, and procedures;

·         Leadership and organizational development to ensure your leadership team has the skills to permanently sustain the culture change;

·         Customized, site-specific safety tools to hardwire improved performance;

·         In Situ simulation to provide world class skills training and performance improvement;

·         Comprehensive measurement systems so you can monitor and continually improve results.

 

Training is provided at your facility by experienced patient safety facilitators. Organizations that have used the LifeWings program have consistently experienced improvements in patient safety, employee satisfaction, fewer medical errors, and lower malpractice costs. Learn more

 

Nurse Retention

Better nurse retention is a critical goal for many of our clients. By implementing the LifeWings systems at your facility, you will be able to reduce nurse turnover and improve employee satisfaction. The LifeWings system includes implementing the LifeWings Patient Safety Improvement Program with a special emphasis on physician-nurse communication, teamwork skills training, and safety tools designed with significant input from your nursing staff. Learn more

 

HCAHPS Performance

LifeWings shows you where and how to direct your efforts and resources to ensure your hospital’s good standing in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey  (these results are also included in the Joint Commission Quality Check website). LifeWings can help improve your HCAHPS performance by:

 

·         Improving communication and teamwork among your physicians, staff, and patients.

·         Reducing undetected and uncorrected medical errors that affect your patients and their perception of your care. 

·         Improving the reliability and efficiency of your patient care processes

·         Dramatically improving physician satisfaction

·         Reducing nurse turnover so your patients benefit from consistent care.

 

Learn more about how we can help your hospital improve your HCAHPS scores.

 

The LifeWings Guarantee

LifeWings systems consistently provide significant improvements for many of the leading healthcare institutions in the nation. The methodology behind our training is based on best practices adapted from the safest industry in the world, aviation and has been so successful that we are able to guarantee that your facility will meet its improvement goals. Learn more.

To learn more about how LifeWings can help your organization improve contact us now.

 

 

 

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Recent feedback on LifeWings Patient Safety Programs:

 

“It’s more organized. Reports are better. We are trying to work as a team better than before doing the LifeWings.”

Nurse, Emergency Department, Benedictine Hospital, Kingston, NY 2009

 

“It’s [LifeWings] helped out on the quality of care; I think it’s helped out how thorough we’ve become and how we weren’t maybe so much in the past. I think it’s cut back on a lot of errors as far as patient care.” Technician, Emergency Department,, Benedictine Hospital, Kingston, NY 2009
 

“"If the Joint Commission rolls in here next week like they’re supposed to, I‘m going to be looking a lot better than I would have a month ago."
Nurse, Emergency Department,, Benedictine Hospital, Kingston, NY on improvements after LifeWings training.
 

 
 

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