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Steve Montague

 

 “Soaring Over the Safety and Quality Chasm:  Using Aviation’s Best Practices to Improve Patient Safety and Quality of Healthcare”

 

Abstract:

Creating a culture of patient safety and quality requires more error-tolerant systems. Such systems equip humans to use teamwork and communication skills to detect the small slips and trips before errors become significant and cause serious accident. These kinds of systems are commonly used in high-reliability organizations like commercial aviation.  

 

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of our session attendees will be able to:

  • State the two key system components necessary to create a culture of safety;

  • Describe the impact of team training on error rates in aviation;

  • Explain the application practices and skills to healthcare;

  • Understand how this application can improve patient safety and quality of care;

  • Recognize the similarities between healthcare and aviation;

  • Describe the methodology used to adopt aviation’s best practices to healthcare;

  • Discuss the safety, service, and outcome results achieved in those healthcare institutions using an aviation-based system; and

  • Learn the process for an organization to begin an aviation-based safety program.

Target Audience:

Executive Management, Hospital Senior Management, Service Line Manager, Physician, Quality or Performance Improvement, Risk Manager, Nurse, Staff, Practice Group Manager, and Clinic Manager (the presentation would apply to all)

 

Audiovisual Requirements:

Video Projector (LCD) and some way to project the sound from the laptop to the video projector.

 

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Steve Montague

 

"LifeWings sent two of its trainers, ex-Navy fighter pilot Steve Montague and former astronaut Dr. Rhea Seddon, to speak with some of the doctors who run the operating rooms in Mount Carmel hospitals.

Their credentials gave them the credibility to grab the doctors' attention, Burnich said.

"They related very well," he said. "It was almost like our doctors wouldn't let them go. At the end of the meeting, they were all in support of going forward."

Such physician acceptance was critical, Burnich said, because LifeWings' teamwork model is based on staff members, such as nurses and technicians, feeling comfortable in pointing out problems to the doctors in charge of patients' care.

From "Safety trainers for airlines flying in to aid Mt. Carmel" in the Columbus Business First.

 

 

 

 

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