The Science of Safe Patient-Centered Care - Webinar By MentorHealth November 28, 2012

Overview: Changing "What ifs" to "Why not prevent it". And that's just for starters. Patient Safety incidents at U.S. hospitals show no decline, cost $8.9 billion. This was the finding on Medicare patients by the Health Grades, an independent healthcare ratings organization.

This study concludes that nearly one million patient-safety incidents occurred over the years 2006- 2008. One in ten patients -- 99,180 individuals -- experiencing a patient-safety incident died as a result. Patients at hospitals in the top 5% hospitals experienced 43% fewer patient safety incidents, on average, compared to poorly performing hospitals. The report says that if all hospitals performed at this level, 218,572 patient safety incidents and 22,590 deaths could potentially have been avoided. This webinar covers proactive practices from other industries that can be applied to healthcare. Some of them have been already implemented by some hospitals such as Johns Hopkins, Allegheny General, and the VA hospitals.

Why should you attend : Too many people die needlessly at U.S. hospitals, according to a sweeping new Medicare analysis showing wide variation in death rates between the best hospitals and the worst. At least 40 wrong surgeries are performed every week and over 300 mistakes are made in large hospitals each day. Americans are exposed to more than seven times as much ionizing radiation from medical procedures compared to the early 1980's, according to a report on population exposure from the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP). There is very little improvement in such scenarios over the last ten years according to the president of the Joint Commission.

The current risk management methodologies are marginally effective at many hospitals. A major cause seems to be the ineffective risk management methods, often touted as "best practices," passed from one organization to another like a bad virus with a long incubation period. There are no early indicators of ill effects until it's too late and catastrophe strikes. This webinar uses a simple definition of risk "something bad could happen" which is very appropriate for healthcare.

Evidence based methods to reduce adverse, sentinel, and never events are available and successful in aerospace, nuclear, and chemical industries. Why not use them?

Areas Covered in the Session
The Etiologies of Unsafe Healthcare
Safety culture is not enough
Inadequate systems usually cause accidents, not inadequate people.
The science of patient safety
New paradigm: stop doing unsafe work, the ideas for safer care will automatically blossom
Hazard Analysis methods
Hazard mitigation methods
Who Will Benefit:
Nurses
Nursing Assistants
Nursing Supervisors
Nursing Managers
Risk Managers
Quality Assurance Staff
Patient Safety Staff

Dev Raheja, MS,CSP, A respected and sought out expert on hospital safety, author of Safer Hospital Care: Strategies for Continuous Innovation draws on his 25 years of experience as a risk management and quality assurance consultant to provide hospital stakeholders with a systematic way to learn the science of safe care. He teaches “Quality Improvement Methods in Healthcare” for the BBA program in Healthcare Management at Florida Tech University. He has written over 20 articles on healthcare quality and safety, and is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Official Website: http://alturl.com/wxjm8