Join the Falls Prevention Virtual Learning Collaborative

1. Falls Virtual Learning Session # 4 & Closing Congress Team Rapid Fire Presentation Template Name of Organization: Annapolis Valley Health Name of Speaker: Join the Falls Prevention Virtual Learning Collaborative

2. Who We Are Location of Facility: Annapolis Valley Health • Number and type of Patients/Residents/Clients: • 21 medical beds with a mixture of acute patients, and longer term care patients. Our patients are generally geriatric, frail and have complex medical conditions and co-morbidities.

3. Team Members

4. AIM • Reduce incidence of falls (fall rate) by 40% from baseline by March 2011 • Reduce injury from falls by 40% from baseline by March 2011 • Monitor falls rate per 1000 pt days on the pilot unit

5. Change Ideas

6. Measures • % of patients with assessments completed on admission went from 86.2% at baseline (October 2010) to 100% in January 2011; using the Morse Fall Scale. • % of patients at risk with care plans documented was 5% at baseline, and has steadily increased to 33.3%. Strategies have been targeted to try to increase this objective. • 3. % of falls causing injury for the 4 month period of October 2010 to January 2011 • Goal – 40% reduction • Total # of falls with injury X 100 = • Total number of falls • 16 X 100 = 43% reduction • 37 • 4. Monitored fall rate per 1000 pt days ( goal will be a reduction of 40% annually) • data for January – Dec 2010 • 7069 patient days with 55 falls = 10% • Will continue to monitor

7. Lessons Learned List any “key” advice or insights you would like to share with other teams?

8. Next Steps What are some things you will do to sustain the work on reducing falls and injury from falls and by what date?

9. Contact Information • Name: Donna Arsenault • Julie Sutherland-Jotcham • Email: darsenault@avdha.nshealth.ca • jsutherland-jotcham@avdha.nshealth.ca • Phone Number: 902-825-6160 Ext 312 • 902-825-6160 Ext 229