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Your Hospital Can Get Life-Changing Results From Implementing The LifeWings Patient Safety System:

• Total elimination of wrong surgeries

• Statistically significant improvement in attitudes of care givers toward using teamwork and communication to provide better care¹

• 75% improvement in pre-procedure antibiotic administration

• 50% improvement in observed to expected mortality ratios

• 40% decrease in Class 1 surgical infections

• 57% improvement in observed to expected mortality with patients with risk of mortality of less than 10%

• Improvement in employee satisfaction

• 50.1% reduction in surgical counts errors²

• 51% improvement in OR turnaround times

• Reduction in nurse turnover to less than 2%

• Reduction in nurse-physician occurrence reports

• Improvement in patient satisfaction survey results

• Improvement in adherence to diabetes treatment protocols and clinically significant improvements in patient outcomes³

• Decrease of patient visit time by 10 minutes³

• Reduction in time-to-train for new hire employees³

• Approximately 50% decrease in open claims files for potentially compensable events
   

  ¹Eric L Grogan, MD, MPH, Renée A Stiles, PhD, Daniel J France, PhD, MPH, Theodore Speroff, PhD, John A Morris Jr, MD, FACS, Bill Nixon, MA, F Andrew Gaffney, MD, Rhea Seddon, MD, C Wright Pinson, MD, MBA, FACS. "The Impact of Aviation-Based Teamwork Training on the Attitudes of Healthcare Professionals." The American College of Surgeons 2004; Vol. 199, No. 6.

  ²RM Rivers,Diane Swain, and Bill Nixon “Using aviation safety measures to enhance patient outcomes,” AORN Journal  2003; 77:158.

  ³Taylor, C.R., Hepworth, J.T., Buerhaus, P.I., Dittus, R., Speroff, T. (September, 2005).Using Crew Resource Management to improve diabetes care in a primary care setting.  Proceedings of the 2nd Safety Across High-Consequence Industries conference.  St. Louis, MO.

The Benefits Of The LifeWings System:

• A better environment for your physicians to practice medicine, thus improved physician satisfaction;

• A better work environment for your nurses and staff, thus improved employee satisfaction, less nurse turnover, lower replacement and “agency” costs;

• Better care for your patients, thus improved patient satisfaction leading to improved market share;

• Fewer undetected and uncorrected errors by your care givers leading to safer and better quality care for your patients and thus fewer malpractice claims;

• Improved processes leading to increased efficiency and thus greater profitability;

• A hardwired, embedded system providing enduring results due to permanent behavior change of your staff and providing a ROI on your training investment for years to come;

• Improved communication and teamwork between your management staff and your physicians;

• A comprehensive system to help you meet IHI, The Joint Commission, NQF, and ACGME safety goals and core competencies;

• A system to provide over 25% of the points you need to gain Leapfrog certification;

• Safer care with better quality of outcomes and with less cost and higher profitability;

• Guaranteed results.

Who We Are And What We Do:

LifeWings Partners LLC is a team of physicians, nurses, pilots, former astronauts, physician executives, and insurance experts that have adapted, for use in healthcare, the same teamwork training concepts and safety tools that have made commercial aviation so safe and reliable.

By implementing for healthcare organizations the training and safety tools from aviation and other high reliability organizations, LifeWings has improved the safety, quality, and profitability of over 75 clients, representing over 30,000 physicians, nurses, staff and administrators.

Our clients include hospitals, clinics, ASC, insurance carriers, and hospital management companies. Hospital departments trained include Perioperative Services, Surgical Services, Trauma, Emergency Medicine, Cath Labs, Lab services, OB/GYN, Labor Delivery, Day Surgery, Intensive Care Units, Sterile Processing, Family Practice, Executive Staff, and Plant Services.

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