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www.oakvillebeaver.com The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Saturday December 6, 2008 - 17 Chocolate reigns HHS is going by the book A trio of Halth Healthcare Services' (HHS) current patient safety initiatives are being profiled in the Ontario Hospital Association's (OHA) recently published Inspiring Ideas and Celebrating Successes, 2008 Patient Safety Guidebook to Leading Patient Safety Practices. HHS' Delirium Assessment and Management Program, Safety Huddles and Positive Patient Identification were selected in the province-wide publication. Also, the merits of a fourth HHS submission on Wound Care Best Practices were also recognized and will be published on the OHA website. The OHA's Patient Safety Guidebook features the most innovative and effective patient safety initiatives currently implemented by hospitals and health care facilities in Ontario and serves to inspire all health organizations in their quest to take patient safety to greater heights. "Our patients and their safety have always been our top priority. It guides the way we think and is associated with and linked to every healthcare strategy and activity we undertake," said Sylvia Rodgers, chief nursing officer and professional practice leader. "We are continuously striving to improve the way we do things at all levels of the organization to make our hospitals even safer and, we are very proud to have the OHA feature some of our latest innovative efforts," she said. One of these efforts involves HHS' Delirium Assessment and Management Program. HHS recently established an interprofessional project team at Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital (OTMH) to prevent and reduce the incidence of delirium in high-risk older hospitalized patients. It provides leadership, education and best practice tools to support prevention, earlier recognition, assessment and management of delirium. "The work being achieved through this initiative has heightened awareness throughout the organization about the need to enhance and improve safety for hospitalized older adults and has initiated a widespread review of practices," said Rodgers. OTMH was also the first Canadian Hospital last year to pilot a new electronic system in its laboratories to ensure positive patient identification using barcodes to identify patients and print specimen labels. This system enhances patient safety by ensuring specimen collection and identification is accurate. HHS also successfully introduced regular safety huddles on its patient care units as a key initiative to increase open communication among interdisciplinary teams, increase safety awareness among front-line staff and identify and solve staff and patient safety issues and concerns. "Regular safety huddles, have proven to be an excellent opportunity for staff to meet briefly to discuss and tackle emerging safety issues in their work areas," said Rodgers, adding, "The huddles are short, focused and frequent and have proven to be very effective in minimizing potential safety risks." The fourth HHS safety initiative recognized by OHA was HHS' recent implementation of a skin and wound care program to prevent pressure ulcers and promote wound care excellence. This program includes the development of standardized skin and wound care practices at HHS, a comprehensive educational program for nurses and a holistic proactive approach focused on wound prevention. "Our healthcare professionals are an extremely resourceful and determined group who are constantly looking for ways to make our hospitals safer. Each department and patient care unit has identified one or two safety champions who work alongside their colleagues and managers as safety ambassadors to keep patient safety an integral part of our culture of excellence," said Rodgers. "We are honoured and thrilled to be recognized for some of our more recent safety initiatives in the OHA's 2008 Patient Safety Guidebook," she said, noting the publication provides an opportunity to share safety innovations and strategies and inspires everyone to learn from each other's successes." NIKKI WESLEY / OAKVILLE BEAVER SUPREME: Three-year-old Peyton Stevens samples Dairy Milk chocolate from Canada, Australia, and India. Each different country's Dairy Milk tastes different because of different recipes and preferences in each country. Oakville author John Bradley signed copies of his new book, Cadbury's Purple Reign at Chapters and donated the royalties from the books sold that day to the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada. 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