Abstract:
Despite dedicated efforts by healthcare professionals over the past 20 years, more than 200,000 people continue to die annually in the United States due to preventable medical error. Most organizations have implemented improvement in silos, and few have truly established a safe, reliable foundation as a core, strategic focus. Organizations who are highly reliable demonstrate three critical components: a person-centered culture of safety, a holistic continuous improvement framework, and an effective model for sustainment. Without all three foundational components, ongoing, population-specific improvements will continue to fail.
In this session, we will discuss why previous efforts at sustainment improvement haven’t been effective, and what the healthcare industry needs to do differently so that we can finally hardwire the highly reliable systems we need to keep people safe. We will review the Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS), which are available for free download on our website. The APSS include evidence-based summaries of best practices, performance improvement plans, educational videos, articles, and coaching.
Learn more on the PSMF Website.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the three critical components of a foundation for safe and reliable health care.
- Identify the short- and long-term interventions to improve quality of patient care and patient safety.
- Locate and describe how free patient safety resources (such as the Actionable Patient Safety Solutions from the PSMF) can be used to improve patient care quality.