Join the Falls Prevention Virtual Learning Collaborative

Falls Virtual Learning Session # 4 & Closing Congress Team Rapid Fire Presentation Template

Name of Organization: CUMBERLAND HEALTH AUTHORITY

Name of Speaker: Nancy Williamson

Team Members

Team Member Role

Cheryl Northcott Team Sponsor

Hilda Castro and Anne Troitter Team Leads

Patricia Harrington Manager of Seniors’ Health Program

Rhonda Allen Community Health Project Coordinator

Leona Pool Patient Care Manager

Darlene White Manager of Rehabilitation Services

Sharon Fairbanks Patient Care Manager

Nancy Williamson Lead for Falls Prevention ROP

AIM

From your Team Charter

• Reduce incidence of falls (fall rate) by 40% from baseline by March 2011

• Reduce injury from falls by 40% from baseline by March 2011

Change Ideas

List Changes you have tested during Falls VLC PDSA Cycles:

•Validation and implementation of Falls Risk Assessment Tool

•Chart audit for completed Risk Assessment Tool

•Test usefulness of “interventions” section of Risk Assessment Tool

Measures

BASELINE DATA:

Percentage of Falls Causing Injury: 50%

Percentage of Patients with completed Falls Risk Assessment: 63%

Percentage of at Risk Patients with Falls Prevention Plan: 27%

Lessons LearnedList any “key” advice or insights you would like to share with other teams?

Lessons Learned/Key Insights

• For the tests of change to be viable, a champion needs to be identified (ideally team leader)

•It is important to build on existing initiatives and potentiate the work of units that are already doing something, even though they are not using PDSA language

•Use the opportunity of the VLC to introduce Continuous Quality Improvement concepts to frontline level staff and patient care managers

What are some things you will do to sustain the work on reducing falls and injury from falls and by what date?

Next Steps

Key Sustainability Steps/Plan: Target Dates

Restorative Care team will continue audits of completed Falls Risk Assessment Tool

Continuous basis

Spread of initiative to other acute care services (Medical, Surgical and Maternal/Child)

Has already begun

Name: Hilda Castro

Email: hilda.castro@cha.nshealth.ca

Phone Number: 902-667-3057

Contact Information