SafeStart eliminates Never Events, enhances patient engagement and satisfaction as well as increase operating room throughput and utilization.
Eliminate Never Events
SafeStart eliminates Never Events through preventing wrong patient, wrong procedure, and wrong site operations.
• Eliminate risk of WSPEs and consequent payouts
• Reduction in internal investigation time for Never Events
• Reduction in medical liability premiums due to Never Events
• Patient participation in risk reduction by preop approval on surgical checklists
Improving Operating Room Throughput
SafeStart provides enhanced patient safety data and information that prevents delays/cancellations/no shows, allowing better Operating Room schedule continuity, throughput, and efficiency.
• Elimination of patient-caused delays
• Elimination of cancellations
• Increased capacity of the Operating Rooms
• Improvement of Operating Room schedule continuity
• Reduction in overtime expense due to all previously mentioned reasons
Staff Satisfaction
SafeStart eliminates delays in the Operating Room thus reducing the amount of wasted waiting time for surgeons and nurses in the Operating Room. Also, reducing the amount of Never Events will improve staff morale.
• Improved staff satisfaction scores
• Help reduce staff turnover reducing recruiting expense
• Help recruit clinicians through the enhanced safety leadership position
Patient Engagement
SafeStart includes the patients and their families in the safety process through frequent outreach to allow the patients to review their preop record, making them an active part of the safety process.
• Include surgery patients, their families or guardians in the surgical safety process before surgery
• Enhance the hospital brand of safety
• Increase patient satisfaction scores
Meaningful Use
SafeStart can drive EMR patient portal usage by delivering critical patient safety information that patients will actively seek helping providers achieve patient portal meaningful use metrics.
• Leverage hospital investment in multi-million dollar EMR investments
• Drive patient portal registrations
• Drive ongoing patient portal usage
• Help drive achievement of Meaningful Use for patient portal usage
Culture of Safety
SafeStart with its introduction across the provider workflow, from patient intake, into the preop area, and in the OR, will create a top-of-mind focus on safety enhancing a hospital's brand as safety conscious.
• Engender a virtual asynchronous or synchronous huddle
• Extend Culture of Safety to external hospital communications
• Embed and strengthen a focus on safety by connecting facility personnel and clinical staff to the office personnel
• Leverage Culture of Safety to external marketing and branding
OAS CAHPS
SafeStart can drive OAS CAHPS scores. CMS has moved to mandatory patient satisfaction surveys. SafeStart provides patients with safety information and participation in the surgical safety process that will improve OAS CAHPS scores.
•Leverage hospital or facility investment in expensive EMRs
