Reducing Falls in Long Term Care

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Improvement Story session at the 2013 Saskatchewan Health Care Quality Summit. For more information about the summit, visit www.qualitysummit.ca. Follow @QualitySummit on Twitter. Kelsey Trail Health Region began an improvement journey in the summer of 2010 to reduce the number of falls and injuries from falls in all ten of our Long Term Care facilities by implementing a fall prevention program. Eighteen months after the last facilities began a falls reduction program we have seen a fourteen percent reduction in the median number of falls throughout our region. Better Care Connie Shearer, Dianne Skilliter

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Reducing Falls in Long Term Care: Our Improvement Journey Connie Shearer & Dianne Skilliter

This Session is sponsored by:

Reducing Falls in

Long Term Care:

Our Improvement Journey

Connie Shearer & Dianne Skilliter Registered Nurses

Healthy People in Healthy Communities

www.kelseytrailhealth.ca

Healthy People in Healthy Communities

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Healthy People in Healthy Communities

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Healthy People in Healthy Communities

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Healthy People in Healthy Communities

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1. Risk Assessment

2. Communication and Education

3. Implementation of interventions

4. Customization of interventions

for high risk fallers

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Fall Reduction

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1. Risk Assessment

2. Communication and Education

3. Implementation of interventions

4. Customization of interventions

for high risk fallers

Healthy People in Healthy Communities

www.kelseytrailhealth.ca

Fall Reduction

Healthy People in Healthy Communities

www.kelseytrailhealth.ca

Hudson Bay Health Care Facility

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Red Deer Nursing Home

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1. Do you have pain or discomfort?

2. Do you need to use the bathroom?

3. Do you need anything before I

leave the room?

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Bp cuff, med bottles

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huddle

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Healthy People in Healthy Communities

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Healthy People in Healthy Communities

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huddle

Reducing Falls in

Long Term Care:

Our Improvement Journey

Connie Shearer & Dianne Skilliter Registered Nurses

Healthy People in Healthy Communities

www.kelseytrailhealth.ca