SHN ONTARIO NODE E-UPDATE - April, 2008

CAMPAIGN UPDATE

Exciting News! Safer Healthcare Now! is expanding

To date, over 830 teams, representing more than 220 hospitals, health regions and other healthcare delivery organizations like yourself are currently implementing one or more of six targeted leading practice interventions to improve patient safety.

Interim results show that the implementation of the six healthcare interventions, the pillars of the campaign, can reduce injuries or deaths related to preventable adverse events. The initial six acute-care interventions will continue.

Earlier this month, four new interventions to improve patient safety were launched at a national conference in Winnipeg, to kick start Phase II of the Safer Healthcare Now! campaign. Presentations from the national conference are now available at www.saferhealthcarenow.ca. From the home page, click on "National Learning Series V Presentations" on the right side of your screen.

The four new interventions include:

  • VTE: Preventing venous thromboembolism
  • MRSA: Preventing harm from antibiotic-resistant organisms
  • Medication Reconciliation in Long Term Care
  • Prevention of Falls in Long Term Care

To join one of the four new Phase II interventions, you will need to update your organization's enrollment in the campaign, Visit www.saferhealthcarenow.ca, click on "Sign Up". If you are currently enrolled in Phase I of the campaign, go to "Current Enrollees" and click "Login". You will be required to key in your email address and password. If you are new to the campaign, select "Participant Sign Up" and follow the directions.

Questions? Please contact us at the Ontario Node at ontarionode@saferhealthcarenow.ca

 

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

Last Call to Enroll in the National Collaborative on Falls in Long-Term Care
There is only one more week to enroll in the first-ever National Collaborative on Falls in Long-Term Care. The Safer Health Now! Campaign, under the leadership of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO), aim to reduce falls and injury from falls in residents in long-term care facilities.

If you are receiving this information and are not working in a long-term care facility, please pass this information on to someone that you know that is. To find out more about this initiative, go to www.saferhealthcarenow.ca or contact Meagan Cleary, Collaborative Project Manger at mcleary@rnao.org or (800) 268-7199 ext 261.

 

SAFER HEALTHCARE NOW! IN THE NEWS

Safer Healthcare Now! triggers significant improvement for Bluewater Health in Ontario
SHN Newsletter Volume 4, Issue 1
Click here to read the full article or go to: www.saferhealthcarenow.ca

Blood clots fingered as hospitals' silent killer
April 2, 2008 - LISA PRIEST, Globe and Mail
Click here to read the full article (for purchase)

Networking a major component of Trailblazers program: Access to experienced professionals invaluable
Monday March 17, 2008 -- Jason Thompson, Axiom News
Click here to read the full article or go to: http://www.hiroc.com/AxiomNews/2008/March/March17.html

Humble checklists are real lifesavers: MDs may scoff, but these simple documents are finally catching on
February 2008 - Graham Lanktree, National Review of Medicine. (Vol.5 No.2)
Click here to read the full article or go to:
http://www.nationalreviewofmedicine.com/issue/2008/02/5_patients_practice_2.html

 

SHN CALLS AND EVENTS

3rd Annual QHN Spring Symposium - Enabling a Culture of Integration
One Story at a Time: Quality at the Crossroads
April 30, May 1 & 2, 2008
The Kingbridge Centre, King City, Ontario
Click Here to Download Conference Brochure

To Enquire, Click Here

4th International Symposia on Rapid Response Systems & Medical Emergency Teams
May 8 & 9, 2008
Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Toronto, Ontario
For more information or to register, Click Here

Ontario Node Open Line Call: Prevention of CLI
June 3, 2008, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dial in #:  1 (866) 368-6248  or (416) 204-8888
Participant code:  7732074#
To Enquire, Click Here

Transparency in Health Care: Measurement and reporting in the pursuit of learning and improvement – Health Quality Council of Saskatchewan
Friday, June 27, 2008
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
For more details on this one day conference, including the conference agenda, speakers and registration process, click here or go to: www.hqc.sk.ca/transparency.

 

HOLD THE DATE

QHN Open House
Patient Safety Walkarounds: How Organizations are Enhancing a Patient Safety Culture
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm
To put your name on a waitlist, click here

Eating the Elephant:  “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.”
A Workshop for Ontario Hospitals preparing to meet the Provincial Reporting Requirements for Safer Healthcare Now!
Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 7:45 am - 3:45 pm
Sandman Signature Hotel, Toronto Airport, 55 Reading Court, Toronto, Ontario
To put your name on a waitlist, click here

Medication Reconciliation in Long Term Care Workshop
Providence Healthcare, Conference Centre, Third Floor, Toronto, Ontario
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
To put your name on a waitlist, click here

 

TELL US YOUR STORY!

Do you have a Safer Healthcare Now! success story that may be of interest to other SHN teams?  Can you share creative and innovative ways that you have involved patients/families in your improvement work?  If so, we want to profile your team. Please submit your stories to Tanya Flanagan at (416) 351-3704 or email at tanya.flanagan@qhn.ca.

 

About the Quality Healthcare Network:

The Quality Healthcare Network (QHN) is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering the development and adoption of best practices by its members through education and shared improvement projects. Established in 1992 as the CQI Network, the network grew into the  Quality Healthcare Network in 2003, a member-based organization, which now exceeds over 70 healthcare organizations that share the courage to move beyond status quo, inspired towards excellence in care and service. In 2005, the network became the Ontario lead of the Safer Healthcare Now! campaign, an ambitious pan-Canadian effort aimed at reducing the number of injuries and deaths related to adverse events, such as infections and medication incidents. For more information about QHN, visit the network website at www.qhn.ca

Contact Information
Tanya Flanagan
Director, Communications
Quality Healthcare Network
Ontario Node, Safer Healthcare Now!
790 Bay Street, 9th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1NB
tel: (416) 351-3704
tanya.flanagan@qhn.ca
 
Quality Healthcare Network - Safer Healthcare Now!

790 Bay Street, 9th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1N8   Phone: 416.351.3760 • Fax: 416.351.3762 • Web: www.qhn.ca