Aug 26, 2014 | Falls Prevention, Featured Posts, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)
Earlier this year we introduced the Vancouver Acute (VA) Falls Prevention Team and their new Falls Prevention Toolkit at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH). At that time, the team was just beginning to rollout the Toolkit to the medical, surgical, cardiac and...
Jun 25, 2014 | Equipment Safety, Featured Posts, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)
Biomedical Engineering (BME/Biomed) applies science and engineering to the design and functionality of medical equipment and devices. When it comes to safety, the expertise of Biomedical Engineers is sought to ensure equipment is operating as it should be, healthcare...
Jan 22, 2014 | Falls Prevention, Featured Posts, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)
Patients are at risk for falling. Especially patients who are elderly, have cognitive impairment due to head trauma or take multiple medications. Falls can lead to multiple and serious negative outcomes such as long-term pain, extended stay in hospital or, in the...
Oct 29, 2013 | Featured Posts, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)
Spreading the patient safety message among healthcare staff is no small task. Not to mention, influencing those staff to be enthusiastic about using an online safety event management tool in addition to an already busy day caring for patients. But, that’s exactly...
Oct 8, 2013 | Featured Posts, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)
At a time when incident reporting systems have become increasingly paramount to improving healthcare safety, a group of home support staff on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast have risen to the top to overcome some interesting challenges with reporting patient safety...
