Quality & Patient Safety

Patient Safety First campaign focuses staff, patients on common goal

Patient Safety Monitor, November 1, 2009

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Keeping many new patient safety topics and initiatives fresh in the minds of frontline caregivers can be
a challenge.
To ensure that staff members were thinking about a new aspect of safe patient care each month and to educate employees and patients about patient safety goals, Abington (PA) Memorial Hospital (AMH) started Patient Safety First, a hospitalwide patient safety campaign that focused on behaviors and actions. Originally launched in 2008, staff members decided to continue building on Patient Safety First after seeing success in its first year. The program was originally developed as a means of coordinating the large amount of safety information that is disseminated to frontline caregivers.

 

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