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Previous Speaking Engagements for

Steve Harden
 

Decision Health Safety Conference Denver, CO
July 14-15, 2008
 
Joint Commission Surgical Safety Conference Chicago, IL
April 28, 2008
Key Note Speaker
 
Louisiana Hospital Quality Awards Symposium Baton Rouge, LA
April 14, 2008
Key Note Speaker
 

Texas Health Resources System-Wide Risk Management Workshop

February, 2008

 

BayCare Healthcare System Risk Management Summit Workshop

November 28, 2007

 

Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System Annual Leadership Retreat, Salinas, CA
November 10, 2007
Session: “Crew Resource Management in Healthcare”

 

Texas Medical Liability Trust, Houston, TX
October 25, 2007
Session: “Soaring Over the Safety and Quality Chasm”

 

ELSO Conference, Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital - Nashville, TN
September 27, 2007

Session: “More than Just ECMO: Promoting a Culture of Safety”

 

HANYS Quality Institute, Informational Teleconferences
October 2007 – March 2008

Six Sessions: “Teamwork-Technique: Critical Care Excellence Education Series”

 

Memorial Healthcare System Annual Leadership Development Institute
July 20, 2007

Session: “Soaring Over the Safety & Quality Chasm”

 

MHA 71st Annual Meeting, Chatham, MA
June14, 2007

Session: “Improving Communications & Teamwork to Enhance Patient Safety”

 

Carolinas Healthcare System Leadership Development Institute
May 30, 2007

Session: “Soaring over the Safety & Quality Chasm”

 

UTMB Pediatric Grand Rounds Annual Awards Presentation, Galveston, TX
May 18, 2007

Session: Key Note Speaker: “The Real Right Stuff: Six surprising things about professional excellence I wish someone had told me before I learned them the hard way.”

 

American College of Physician Executives, Orlando, FL
May 8, 2007

Session: “Houston, We Have a Problem: Critical Leadership Skills for Achieving Top Performance in Safety and Quality”

 

Roper St. Francis Healthcare Leadership Development Institute

Charleston, SC
April 11, 2007

Session:Soaring Over the Safety and Quality Chasm: Implementing Best Practices from Aviation to Create Another Pillar of Excellence”

 

Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Leadership Retreat
April 2007

 

Port Access MIVS, STS Annual Conference, San Diego, CA
January 29, 2007

Session: Key Note Speaker: “How to be a Top Gun: Comparative insights between Port Access surgery and the critical environment of a supersonic fighter jet”

 

Montana Hospital Association Annual Meeting for Hospital Boards of Directors and Trustees / St. Patrick Hospital & Health Sciences Center Retreat
October 20-21, 2006

Session: “Creating & Sustaining Governing Board Commitment to a Culture of Improved Quality and Safety in Your Community”

 

FASCA of Tennessee 2006 Fall Conference & Trade Show, Memphis, TN
September 15, 2006

Session: “Presentation to the Freestanding Ambulatory Surgery Center Association of Tennessee: Soaring Over the Safety and Quality Chasm”

 

MAG Mutual Seminars
September / October 2006

Session: “Patient Safety Takes Wing: Using Aviation Teamwork and Safety Measures to Improve Patient Outcomes”

 

Montana Hospital Association Annual Conference
July 14, 2006

Session: “Aviation’s Best Practices to Improve Patient Safety & Quality Care: 5-hour workshop on Teambuilding, Communications, and Hardwired Safety Tools”

 

The Aerospace Medical Assoc. 77th Annual Scientific Meeting, Orlando, FL
May 14-18, 2006

Session: Crew Resource Management in Healthcare

 

Chicago Healthcare Risk Management Society Annual Meeting
April 28, 2006

Session: “Crew Resource Management in Healthcare: Focus on Patient Safety”

 

Provena Healthcare System Annual LDI
January 19, 2006

Session: Crew Resource Management in Healthcare

 

PIAA Claims/Risk Management Workshop, Seattle, WA
September 7, 2004

Session: Teamwork and Communication

 

Norton Healthcare
April 20, 2004

Session: “Strategies to Reduce Liability in the Perinatal Setting”

 

Timpanogos Surgical Club Annual Retreat
September 2003

 

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Excerpts About LifeWings and Steve Harden From Major Media Outlets

From Hospital safety takes page out of Top Gun manual, chicagotribune.com, 2/12/08

"Six months after Provena employed the LifeWings method, miscommunication reports are down 50 percent, Cappelletti reported.

LifeWings President Stephen Harden, a former Top Gun flight instructor, co-founded the company in 2005 because, he said, "aviation and medicine both rely on teamwork for efficiency and safety.

"Some consider medicine an art, where Dr. A does it this way and Dr. B does it this way. But then the rest of the staff doesn't know what to expect." The LifeWings method is especially helpful, Cappelletti said, when her department has shift changes or when a patient is moved from one area to another, such as from an operating to a recovery room.

"Bottom line, we want to reduce errors," she said. "Everyone has been on board with this program because it helps us do that."
 

From Group Of Top Gun Pilots & Astronauts Improving Hospital Safety in Memphis, ABCNews 24, 6/28/07

Pilots and astronauts can't afford to make a single mistake. Steve Harden is a former Navy Top Gun pilot. He said, “The consequences for mistakes in aviation are very serious, aviation is an unforgiving business, if you make a serious mistake it can cost you your life.”

He teamed up with two former astronauts to use the lessons they learned in the air in hospitals right here in the Mid-South. The group teaches doctors and nurses to use precise checklists to reduce or eliminate mistakes. Harden said, “I've never made a take-off without doing a before take-off checklist, and the same concept applies to say a surgical procedure. Is it the right patient? Are you doing the procedure on the right part of the body? Do you have all of the equipment you need? Is it ready to go? Many of our clients have hired us for exactly those kinds of problems. They've either had near misses, or have in fact operated on the wrong part of the body or God forbid, have operated on the wrong patient. That does occasionally happen.”

It may sound hard to believe that a simple checklist can prevent such a horrible mistake, but Harden said the training has saved lives in at least one Memphis hospital, “Approximately 200 patients in the past two years have walked out of their hospital that wouldn't have walked out of their hospital without this program.”
 

From Preventing Medical Mistakes, Medical Breakthroughs, 1/11/08
"Steve Harden, pilot and founder/CEO of the for-profit company, called Lifewings Partners, says the same principles that keep pilots and their passengers safe in the air can be used to prevent mistakes and improve safety in hospitals and other medical facilities. “We’re in it for patient safety,” says Harden, who adds that, to date, more than 70 medical facilities have used their services.

Lifewings has a five-step program that involves changing the hospital procedures and communication issues that can lead to mistakes, training physicians and nurses to work better as a team, also setting up checklists for standard operating procedures and measurements to track outcomes.  Harden cites a hospital in the Southeastern U.S. that went from having a “wrong surgery” once every 60 days, to a track record that logged more than 600 days without a single such incident.

“Health care is more safety and quality conscious than it’s ever been,” Harden says. “As long as health care is growing and more people are using it, the chance for mistakes will continue to increase, unless some fairly fundamental changes are made in how the health care teams work together.”
 

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