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New!11/21/08 LifeWings programs provide Continuing Education Credits for your physicians and nurses (by the Tennessee Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation and the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of The University of Tennessee College of Medicine)

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10/15/08 LifeWings programs are proven to dramatically reduce CMS Never Events. Save your hospital millions of dollars and increase patient safety and satisfaction with our training and tools. Learn More

 

10/08 Read Using Safety Tools to Achieve Permanent Results in High-Reliability Organizations in the latest edition of LifeWings' Patient Safety Newsletter, The Pulse. Read Now!

7/08 Read How to Lead a Change Initiative and Skills for Sustaining an Enduring Cultural Change in the latest edition of LifeWings' Patient Safety Newsletter, The Pulse. Read Now!

7/08 Read about LifeWings training at Salem Hospital Family Birth Center from Program takes wing at hospital in the Statesman Journal. Read Now!

7/08 Read about LifeWings in Aviation Training Methods Help Hospitals Decrease Medical Errors from NurseZone.com Read Now!
 

7/08 See our new Patient Safety Improvement Grant Resources page to get ideas for alternative funding for your hospital's patient safety program.

6/08 Read about LifeWings' success applying crew resource management principles to healthcare in Applying Aviation Safety Techniques to Medicine from the Reporter. Read now!

4/08 Read about LifeWings training at UC Davis Medical Center in Hospital training program teaches techniques used in aviation: Goal is to improve communication practices to help prevent mistakes from the Sacramento Business Journal. Read Now!

LifeWings President Steve Harden is a nationally recognized authority on improving patient safety and healthcare culture change and crew resource management. Read his new web log for inspiration and current information on patient safety improvement. Read Now!

 

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LifeWings Provides Teamwork Training and Safety Systems Developed by High Reliability Organizations to Create Sustainable and Measurable Cultural Change in Healthcare. The Result? Better Teams. Better Systems. Safer Care. Lower Costs. Guaranteed.

 

LifeWings can help you improve:

 

Patient Safety

Improve patient safety with the LifeWings Patient Safety Improvement Program. This comprehensive program helps your facility adopt and sustain a culture of safety for better patient and financial outcomes. Our program, successful in more than 85 organizations and featured in more than 30 major media outlets, consists of:

 

·         A thorough risk assessment of your facility, staff, and procedures;

·         Leadership and organizational development to ensure your leadership team has the skills to permanently sustain the culture change;

·         Customized, site-specific safety tools to hardwire improved performance;

·         In Situ simulation to provide world class skills training and performance improvement;

·         Comprehensive measurement systems so you can monitor and continually improve results.

 

Training is provided at your facility by experienced patient safety facilitators. Organizations that have used the LifeWings program have consistently experienced improvements in patient safety, employee satisfaction, fewer medical errors, and lower malpractice costs. Learn more

 

Nurse Retention

Better nurse retention is a critical goal for many of our clients. By implementing the LifeWings systems at your facility, you will be able to reduce nurse turnover and improve employee satisfaction. The LifeWings system includes implementing the LifeWings Patient Safety Improvement Program with a special emphasis on physician-nurse communication, teamwork skills training, and safety tools designed with significant input from your nursing staff. Learn more

 

HCAHPS Performance

LifeWings show you where and how to direct your efforts and resources to ensure your hospital’s good standing in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey. LifeWings can help improve your HCAHPS performance by:

 

·         Improving communication and teamwork among your physicians, staff, and patients.

·         Reducing undetected and uncorrected medical errors that affect your patients and their perception of your care. 

·         Improving the reliability and efficiency of your patient care processes

·         Dramatically improving physician satisfaction

·         Reducing nurse turnover so your patients benefit from consistent care.

 

Learn more about how we can help your hospital improve your HCACHPS scores.

 

The LifeWings Guarantee

LifeWings systems consistently provide significant improvements for many of the leading healthcare institutions in the nation. The methodology behind our training is based on best practices adapted from the safest industry in the world, aviation and has been so successful that we are able to guarantee that your facility will meet its improvement goals. Learn more.

To learn more about how LifeWings can help your organization improve contact us now.

 

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