One of the nation’s largest skilled nursing chains has launched routine facility-level safety meetings designed to address patient care, concerns about daily processes and policy needs.
Observers said it may be one of the most comprehensive approaches to elevating patient safety in the nursing home sector, which has historically lagged behind acute care in developing systems to report and examine patient safety challenges with the aim of improvement.
Good Samaritan Society’s daily SAFE meetings include an administrator or nurse leader from every nursing home and are an outgrowth of SAFE, the Sanford Accountability For Excellence program. Regional groups meet for 15 minutes; information is then elevated to a smaller meeting of market leaders and, finally, to an enterprise call that includes representatives from each of Sanford’s health sectors.
They are conducted in addition to any building-level morning stand-up meetings.
“It’s meant to be a quick report out so that we can create safe spaces for all of our residents, all of our clients in a really fast and efficient way,” Good Sam Chief Operating Officer Aimee Middleton told McKnight’s Long-Term Care News.
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