Awards
Leading Us To Excellence Award
2009
The 2009 Leading Us to Excellence Award was presented during Canadian Patient Safety Week November 2 – 6, 2009. A “good catch” is defined as an event or circumstance which has the potential to cause an incident or critical incident but the incident did not actually occur due to corrective action and/or timely intervention. It provides an opportunity to learn proactively from the experience. Organizations may also define these as near misses or close calls.
The 2009 recipient was the Biomedical Engineering Services Department, Brandon Regional Health Authority, submitted by Mr Gord McNamee, Manager. Mr NcNamee’s submission was entitled Improving Patient Safety By Biomedical Rounds, which outlined a good catch through proactively assessing potential patient safety issues which could have resulted in harm to patients from use of medical devices. See the following documents for further details: Biomedical Rounds Policy, Examples of patient safety issues, PowerPoint presentation.
Congratulations!
Click here to read the short story about the 2009 Leading Us to Excellence Award.
Previous Award Recipients
2007
The Leading Us to Excellence Award 2007 was presented at the Provincial Patient Safety Conference on November 21, 2007. The 2007 recipient was Mr. Guy Landry,Manager of Physical Plant and Environmental Services for the Red River Valley Lodge and Morris General Hospital, Morris Manitoba, Central Regional Health Authority. Mr Landry’s submission entitled Missing Cotter Rings M.C. HealthCare Hi Lo Electric Beds outlined a “good catch” related to beds used in the RHA that resulted in a number of positive local and system actions.
A “good catch” is defined as an event or circumstance which has the potential to cause an incident or critical incident but the incident did not actually occur due to corrective action and/or timely intervention. It provides an opportunity to learn proactively from the experience. Organizations may also define these as near misses or close calls.
Mr. Landry provided an excellent presentation, including photos, of a proactive approach to minimize or negate the possibility of serious injury from resident electric beds.
Congratulations! Mr. Landry was presented with a plaque to acknowledge his quality improvement efforts.
Click here to view Abstract of Missing Cotter Rings M.C. HealthCare Hi Lo Electric Beds (QD8100L)
