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Hospital Will Deploy Latest Version Featuring Innovative One Click Updates to Streamline Maintenance of Evidence-based Order Sets

June 9, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced that Sibley Memorial Hospital has selected ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, as its electronic order set solution.

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EDIMS and Clara Maass Medical Center Selected to Provide Medical Care Services at Red Bull Arena

June 8, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Clara Maass Medical Center (CMMC), a 445-bed Belleville, N.J.-based hospital and affiliate of the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, announced that it has entered an agreement with the new soccer stadium in Harrison, N.J., Red Bull Arena, to provide emergency medical services at each arena event, including the New York Red Bulls’ soccer games.

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Expecting More Medical Errors Due to Health Care Reform, Safety Expert Steve Harden Releases Patient’s Manual on Getting Mistake-Free Care

June 2, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Nationally recognized patient safety expert Steve Harden has released his step-by-step guide to getting safer health care. The book, “Never Go to the Hospital Alone – and other insider safety secrets for getting mistake-free care from your doctor and hospital” is an in-depth, consumer-friendly guide on how to avoid being one of the 100,000 people who will die accidentally this year due to medical error.

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NPSF’s Patient Safety Congress and Community Engagement

June 1, 2010 ‐ Patton McGinley

By Susan Carr

I look forward each spring to attending the National Patient Safety Foundation’s (NPSF) Patient Safety Congress for great education and networking opportunities. I especially look forward to the pre-conference programs NPSF offers, which this year (May 17–19) added a half-day on medical simulation to the customary full-day sessions on leadership and community engagement.

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Emergency Nurses Release New Guidelines for Patient Transfers

June 1, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

The Emergency Nurses Association’s (ENA) Institute for Quality, Safety and Injury Prevention announced the release its new Safer Handoff Guidelines to help facilitate safer transfer of patients between long-term and emergency care facilities.

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Rocky Mountain Patient Safety Organization Selects ECRI Institute PSO for Patient Safety Reporting and Analysis

May 27, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Colorado hospitals will now be able to share critical information and learn from one another’s experiences like never before as The Rocky Mountain Patient Safety Organization (RMPSO), one of the first federally qualified Patient Safety Organizations (PSO), becomes operational in Colorado.

Environment and Facilities

New Fall Alarm Sensor for Lightweight Patients Reduces Risk of Falls

May 26, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

AliMed has released a revolutionary new fall alarm sensor for beds and chairs that is based on proximity, not pressure. Unlike most fall alarm sensors that require weight to operate, this new sensor works on the closeness of the patient.

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Safety Culture: Building a Culture of Safety

May 22, 2010 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Safety Culture

Building a Culture of Safety

By Dennis Tribble, PharmD, FASHP

In the 10-plus years since the inaugural publication of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) study on medical error, To Err Is Human, there has been surprisingly little progress in reducing the rate of medical error, despite the adoption of technologies specifically intended to combat medical errors. A growing number of people attribute this lack of progress to fundamental flaws in the American healthcare culture that prevent success.

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Safety Huddles for a Culture of Safety

May 21, 2010 ‐ Patton McGinley

Safety Huddles for a Culture of Safety

By Mary Lu Gerke, PhD, RN; Cheryl Uffelman, RN, MSN; Kim Weber Chandler, RN, BSN

When the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System in 2000, the executives and quality and patient safety staff at Gundersen Lutheran immediately started discussions around issues emphasized in the report.

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Common Cause Analysis

May 21, 2010 ‐ Patton McGinley

Common Cause Analysis

By Craig Clapper, PE, CQM, and Kathy Crea, PharmD, RPh, BCPS

To improve medication safety, many healthcare systems implement a technology (such as barcode at point of care) or a best practice (such as double-check of high-risk medications). This approach turns performance improvement into experimentation with other people’s solutions for other people’s system problems — the assumption being all providers share the same system problems.