We Listen, We Learn, We Evolve

We Listen, We Learn, We Evolve

 

Join Us at a Patient Safety Forum to Share Your Thoughts
and Ideas on Balancing Risk and Safety in Long Term Care

 

This event is available for viewing and participation through telehealth at sites outside of Winnipeg.

Your quality and risk management team is responsible for making arrangements for telehealth – contact your regional health authority central office for the name and contact information for this person.

November 12, 2009 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
Deer Lodge Centre, 2nd floor-2109 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg

Balancing safety and freedom for older people needing help is a significant challenge in all care settings. Policies and rules aimed to promote safety may collide with lifestyle preferences of older people in minute and intrusive ways. Sometimes the elderly care recipient is at the center of a complicated struggle, drawing in family members, professionals, and provider organizations. And often the struggles about what to do are internal, as elderly care recipients themselves and other concerned stakeholders try to reconcile desirable but conflicting goals.

Dr. Rosalie Kane, professor of public health at the University of Minnesota and faculty member of the Center for Biomedical Ethics, School of Social Work, and the Center on Aging will be the featured speaker. Dr. Kane will argue that too often both safety and quality of life are unnecessarily compromised in long term care settings. Using examples, she will discuss how to divide responsibility for decision making and outcome between the person receiving services and the care providers.

The final part of the evening will provide an opportunity for people to ask questions or share experiences on the subject as well as provide perspective on their ideas for evolving long term care in Manitoba.

Réal Cloutier, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Vice President of Long Term Care and Chief Operating Officer of Deer Lodge Centre, will provide a short overview of the evolution on long term care in Manitoba.

The event is free of charge. No registration is required. Please encourage others to attend by sharing the information about this event in your organization and with your family and friends, and by posting related material.

The “Living In Care” forum is the second in a series by the Institute called “We Listen! We Learn, We Evolve”. The event is co-sponsored by the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA). The purpose of the series is to give Manitobans a greater voice on a subject that the Institute feels is of interest and importance to the public regarding patient safety in Manitoba’s healthcare system.

Forum Materials

News Release

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For more information, call the Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety at 204-927-6477.