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Improving Harm Across the Board

This initiative focuses on improving the hospital risk profile in Lavonia, Georgia, with a strong emphasis on reducing harm across various areas. Key strategies include enhanced physician charting in obstetrics, improved skin assessments, and implementing evidence-based protocols. By fostering multidisciplinary teams and maintaining strong CEO support, the hospital aims to reduce fall rates and readmissions. Collaborating with long-term care providers and engaging patients are vital components of this ongoing effort, leading to significant improvement in safety metrics.

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Improving Harm Across the Board

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  1. Improving Harm Across the Board Lavonia, Georgia

  2. Risk Profile by Areas of Risk

  3. Improving HAC Rates

  4. Our Hospital Risk Profile & Result

  5. Hospital Trend In Reducing FALLS Number of Harms

  6. Hospital Trend In ReducingHarm Number of Harms

  7. How we got there… • Improved Physician charting in OB • Improved skin assessments • Added VTE Prophylaxis to standing orders • Use elements of the Safe Surgery Checklist • Use evidenced-based Ventilator Bundle • Refined catheter protocols • “Borrowed” from successful hospitals

  8. Pearls • CEO support goes along way • Know where you are and where you want to be • Multidisciplinary teams are essential to success • Participation in telnets and meetings • Spread the responsibility • Brag about your successes! • Forgive your failures • Keep moving forward

  9. To do list • Continue collaboration with Long Term Care and Home Health to decrease readmissions • Focus more on reducing falls • Keep a watch on EEDs • Increase engagement of patients and families

  10. Photo of Hospital CEO &Patient Safety Team

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