LifeWings Results

 

Your Hospital Can Get Life-Changing Results Like These 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 medical 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.