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A History of Proving Results Leads Into the Future of Patient Safety

MORE^OB

At its origins, the MORE^OB Program was developed to create a model of care where patient safety is the priority and everyone’s responsibility. In essence MORE^OB is about improving performance in patient safety.

In designing MORE^OB we saw the need for a continuous patient safety training program that could be delivered to thousands of healthcare professionals from different disciplines involved in obstetrical hospital care on an ongoing basis.  To achieve a culture of safety we recognize the need to emphasize that safety is everyone’s responsibility. Furthermore it was important for all participants to understand the importance of having shared goals and values. The principles of High Reliability Organizations had proven pivotal to improving and sustaining a safety culture in other work environments. We felt this should be a cornerstone of the MORE^OB Program. To this the MORE^OB team has added performance assessment enhancement tools and integrated these as the norm into the practice environment.

The MORE^OB Program has expanded from the 33 pilots in May 2004 to its current level of nearly 200 participating hospitals in Canada with approximately 7,000 participants. The program expanded into the United States in the fall of 2005 and currently involves two participating hospitals.

For more information about the MORE^OB Program, click here or to speak directly to someone Contact Us.

AMPROOB Significant expansion has now been announced in the Province of Quebec (click here for more) where 62 hospitals will join AMPROOB, the French-language version of Salus' cornerstone program, over the next three years. This addition expands the MOREOB program to a multilingual platform and reconfirms the acknowledgement of Salus' ongoing contribution to Patient Safety in Obstetrics. For more information about the AMPROOB Program, click here or to speak directly to someone Contact Us.

9 + one

Interim results demonstrate the ability of the program to:

• Engage large numbers of participants in a multidisciplinary process to improve patient safety
• Shift existing cultures to a more focused patient safety culture as measured by the program’s Culture Change Assessment Tool (CCAT) with all elements showing improvement
• Improve the obstetrical core knowledge of participants in all disciplines and in all environments
• Reduce incurred costs of labour and delivery claims in participating hospitals as reported by claims data provided by the Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada
• Facilitate Accreditation Canada accreditation process
• Facilitate a process for measuring the impact on the work environment (the social infrastructure).

The huge success of the program to date has generated significant interest from several stakeholders (hospitals, liability providers, specialty societies) in Salus applying the principles and tools of the program to other clinical programs in the acute care setting. As a result, Salus has recently announced a new program to be released during the fall of 2008 to address the patient safety performance needs and goals of hospital programs outside of obstetrics.

9 + one will lead Salus' expansion into non-OB environments while extending the core values and learnings of the MORE^OB program. For more information about the 9 + one , click here or to speak directly to someone Contact Us.