AGENDA Achieving Zero Preventable Deaths: One Hospital’s Journey
Time: 11:00 AM ET
Clinical excellence including patient safety often reflects hospital leadership and its efforts to foster a culture of safety and transparency.
During this session, hospital leaders will share key learnings from their unique journey to achieve zero preventable patient deaths. Learn how this organization achieved zero preventable patient deaths through a series of steps including a rigorous organization-wide audit of current practices, implementation of new mitigation measures, and the development of incentive programs.
Automated Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring: What Does the Evidence Say?
Time: 12:05 PM ET
Automated hand hygiene compliance monitoring systems (AHHMS) have been available to the healthcare market for over a decade, yet it is estimated that fewer than 5% of US hospital beds are currently monitored using such technology.
For decades there has been an awareness of the limitations of the current “gold standard” for hand hygiene monitoring, direct observation, yet for most healthcare systems this is still the method primarily employed. One prominent patient safety organization, the Leapfrog Group, has emerged as a champion of AHHMS adoption.
Leapfrog-participating hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers that install AHHMS receive a better hand hygiene safety grade score. Many hospitals are reticent to adopt AHHMS for various reasons, including cost / return on investment, concerns around accuracy and validation and apprehension among frontline healthcare workers.
This presentation will provide an overview of the published evidence surrounding AHHMS and inform the attendees on best practices and future opportunities.
Meeting Patient Safety Challenges of Today and Tomorrow
Time: 2:15 PM ET
The panel will discuss several pressing topics facing patient safety and quality professionals, including the risks and patient safety challenges involved in social issues (including implicit bias, access to care leading to health care disparities, caring for transgender patients), telehealth, and what healthcare facilities will look like after COVID-19 is finally under control.
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