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"Thank you so much for everything you did in the Hardwired
Safety Tools workshop. The feedback from the participants has been extremely
positive. One of the participants said it was THE most productive meeting she
has ever been to. They really enjoyed the creating and designing the Tools."
Dawn Tanner RN BSN
Director of Quality and Risk Management
Patient Safety Officer
Oakwood Southshore Medical Center
“I’ve implemented check sheets for all the emergency room
technicians that are done every shift. That’s worked out quite well because
supplies are there, things are much more organized, there’s a better report
amongst the technicians during shift changes.”
Technician, ED, Benedictine Hospital, Kingston, NY
After 2009 LifeWings Training
"Guided by the safety improvement successes in the
aviation industry, our approach to medical mistakes needs to change from the
mode of 'name you, blame you, shame you' to sharing information so that an error
is not repeated. Like the patients that they care for, health care professionals
are human, and humans are not perfect—this is something we cannot change.
However, we can change the system in which providers care for patients.
Research—much of it sponsored by our Agency—has shown that system improvements
can reduce the error rate and improve the quality of health care."
John M. Eisenberg, M.D., Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Reduce Medical Errors with
Tools and Checklists
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Reduce Medical Errors in Your Hospital with
Effective Tools and Healthcare Checklists
Although the media
interest in healthcare checklists is at a fever pitch, LifeWings has been helping
hospitals nationwide develop and
effectively implement life-saving surgical and healthcare checklists since 2001. We based our
methodology for these
critical tools on the same foundation behind
aviation safety tools and our clients have achieved
remarkable results. The
reliability
 of
implementing checklists in high-risk situations is well documented. Following
are just a few current reports:
Healthcare and
Surgical Checklists Can
Improve Your Hospital's Quality and Financial Performance
Standout medical
institutions and LifeWings clients like Vanderbilt, Rush, and UCLA
have been successfully implementing safety tools like checklists for their
physicians and nurses for years. Hospital executives say using surgical checklists have
more benefits than just safety. Dr. Stanley W. Marks, Senior Vice President &
Chief Medical Officer for six hospitals in the Memorial Healthcare System in
Hollywood, FL says, “Not only have we made our hospitals much safer than they
already were with our surgery checklists, our patients are more satisfied with
their care and our physicians love working here because of our commitment to
their patient’s safety.”
Other than safety, the
most important benefit cited by healthcare leaders is the lower costs that come
with better safety. By using healthcare checklists, administrators have discovered that
staff make fewer costly mistakes, are less wasteful with medical supplies, and
more efficient with their time. Says Dr. Marks, whose hospitals have used
aviation-based checklists for three years, “Once we saw how our system began to
run even more reliably and with fewer delays, we realized checklists were the
right thing for our patients and the right thing to do for our bottom line.”
LifeWings
Works With Your Teams To Select, Develop, and Implement the Best Tools and
Checklists for
Improvement at Your Hospital
Implementing standardized
healthcare checklists may provide some improvement but we have found that each facility has
unique challenges and processes. By performing thorough risk assessments and
collaborating with your teams, we can help you uncover where the greatest needs
for checklists exist and gain buy-in from all levels to develop a realistic
tool. Our program ensures that your hospital hardwires these checklists and
tools into your system for optimal and sustainable results. By
adapting
crew resource management (CRM)
techniques used successfully for years by organizations with
outstanding safety records, LifeWings trains healthcare personnel
how to communicate and utilize these tools consistently.
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Because we measure the effectiveness of
our engagements, we have
demonstrable proof that the tools we
provide reduce medical errors. Specifically we have seen the
reduction of:
Short-term consulting services or
out-of-the-box solutions do not provide the level of detail
required to uncover problems unique to your facility and develop
solutions designed for your staff, your systems, and your hospital's
patient safety goals.
If you are interested in learning more about
how LifeWings programs can help your hospital develop healthcare checklists and tools that
save lives, reduce costs, and increase employee satisfaction please.
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