1. Rapid Fire Team Presentation Template Name of Presenter:

2. Who We Are Name of Organization: Cypress Health Region Location of Facility: South West Corner of Saskatchewan • 12 LTC Facilities • 484 LTC beds

3. Who We Are Swift Current Care Centre • 63 Beds • 1 Respite Bed

4. AIM • To engage fall prevention/injury reduction improvement team members in the National Falls Facilitated Learning Series (FFLS) to learn strategies and plan for sustained improvement in reducing falls and injury from falls.

5. Team Members

6. Review Falls Change Ideas tested to date in your organization

8. Measures Swift Current Care Centre –Falls Rate per 1000 Resident Days

9. Measures Swift Current Care Centre – Percentage of Falls Causing Injury

10. Measures Swift Current Care Centre – Percentage of Residents with Completed Falls Risk Assessment on Admission

11. Measures Swift Current Care Centre – Percentage of “at Risk” Residents with a Documented Falls Prevention/Injury Reduction Plan

12. Lessons Learned on Sustaining Falls Improvement Work during Action Period • What advice would you give to other teams? • Start small – don’t try to incorporate too many changes at once. • Make sure that you have support form Senior Leadership • Investigate budget options • Don’t let one or two people carry the weight of a program. It needs to be a team approach • What are your key insights? • Our data showed that we were not in a place to try and sustain change. No improvements were evident yet.

13. Challenges to Sustaining Falls Improvement • What were some barriers? • Financial Barriers (LTC facility and Resident) • Family, Staff and Physician Resistance • Regional Policies – education on restraint policy • MDS Data show variance compared to data we are collecting • What are some facilitators? • Staff were engaged through Provincial Falls Collaborative • Management and Senior Leader Support • Ministry Target to decrease falls by 20%

14. How do you propose to move forward? • Continue to collect data • Continue to work with staff to find improvement strategies that work the • best for the staff • Continue to audit Fall Risk Assessment is completed on Admission • Continue to audit a Care Plan is completed for “High Risk Residents” • Bring another LTC facility on board in the Health Region

15. 6 Month Post FFLS Sustainability Plans for Falls Improvement Work

16. Contact Information • Name: Kari Reich and Angela Muzyka • Email: kari.reich@cypressrha.ca & angela.muzyka@cypressrha.ca • Phone Number: 1-306-741-9028 • 1-306-741-3669