LifeWings Results

 

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Better Teams and Teamwork

• Statistically significant improvement in Employee Satisfaction Survey results;

• Perioperative services RN turnover as low as 2%;

• 34% improvement in willingness to speak up and advocate for patient safety;

• 118% improvement in willingness to discuss ways to prevent errors from happening again;

• 196% improvement in willingness to question decisions or actions of those with more authority;

• Reduction in nurse-physician occurrence reports;

• 30% improvement in perception of effectiveness of MD-RN communication skills;

• Employee turnover well below the hospital mean;

• Statistically significant improvement in attitudes of care givers toward using teamwork and communication to provide better care^1;

Fewer Errors, Less Rework and Waste

• 195% improvement in uneventful procedural cases;

• 50.1% reduction in surgical counts errors² ;

• 25% decrease in medication discrepancies;

• 20% decrease in OR equipment discrepancies;

• 50% decrease in patient ID discrepancies;

• 32% decrease in malpractice claims dollars per surgical discharge;

• Documented avoidance of wrong surgeries;

• Documented avoidance of serious medication errors;

• Eliminated OR Sentinel Events;

Improved Efficiency and Reliability

• 51% improvement in OR turnaround times;

• Total elimination of wrong surgeries;

• 75% improvement in pre-procedure antibiotic administration;

• Improvement in employee satisfaction;

• Improvement in adherence to diabetes treatment protocols and clinically significant improvements in patient outcomes and reduction in time-to train for new hire employees³ ;

• Decrease of patient visit time by 10 minutes with improvements in clinical care;

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

Better Care and Outcomes

• 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%.

If you are interested in learning more about how LifeWings programs can create better teams, improve patient safety, reduce medical errors, and more at your hospital, please:

• Review the basics of the LifeWings programs;

• Read what other healthcare professionals say about the program;

• Learn how the media and healthcare executives validate the LifeWings programs as an effective way to make measurable, sustainable changes

• Learn how you can benefit from our Guaranteed Results.

• Submit the contact form to the left to have a LifeWings professional contact you.

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.