The Patient Safety section profiles a number of initiatives currently under way. This section will be ever-changing as we incorporate the latest best practices from Ontario and beyond.
How prepared is your community hospital for a chemical or biological community disaster? Check out the Being Prepared for CBRN Emergencies to learn more about the intense training initiatives underway for hospital staff.
Are you or your loved one at risk for an accidental fall, which could impact independence? The Falls Prevention Program section contains the risk factors and interventions to keep our patients mobile and safe.
Connecting our senior leaders with our professionals delivering bedside care and creating a culture of safety are the main goals in our new Patient Safety Leadership Walkarounds. Frequent walkarounds through patient units create opportunities for improving safety and establish lines of communication about patient safety among employees, physicians, managers and executives.
Women have been delivering babies literally since human life began, but practices, based on the latest evidence, do change. A Managing Obstetrical Risks Effectively program is in place to ensure our Maternal/Child clinical teams are helping new life come into the world as safely as possible.
Ensuring hospital medications are delivered as safely as possible to patients is the driving factor in a new Automated Unit Dose Drug Dispensing system, being set up at all NHS sites.
If a major epidemic or pandemic occurs, your community hospital is a major player in caring for those ill, and for helping to ensure infections don’t spread. The NHS Pandemic Plan is updated frequently with our many partners to ensure a community-based response is in place.
Can we do a better job at preventing infections after surgery, or when a patient is on a ventilator, or has IV therapy, or takes several different medications? Learn more about our Safer Healthcare Now initiatives being piloted to ensure we are delivering the best care possible to our vulnerable patients.