Quality Events

Reducing Workplace Violence Through Violence Risk Screening and Meaningful Interventions

Mercyhealth Hospital and Trauma Center - Janesville

Mercyhealth developed a targeted documentation tool to empower bedside staff to accurately record episodes of patient violence within the medical record. Alongside this, they implemented a violence risk screening tool embedded with meaningful interventions aimed at proactively identifying high-risk patients. This initiative supports staff safety, enhances leadership and security involvement, and fosters a culture where safety is a top priority. By improving reporting practices, we aim to reduce incidents of workplace violence and better protect our healthcare teams.

Project Objectives

• Provide a background of Mercyhealth and the issue they identified
• Discuss the barriers to reporting workplace violence
• Demonstrate the tools we implemented to increase reporting
• Share the interventions they established
• Help to create a culture of prioritizing staff safety across the Stateline

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WHA Financial Workshop

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Development and Implementation of a Workplace Violence Prevention Program by Focusing on Collaboration and Team Member Preparation

ThedaCare 

ThedaCare is committed to providing high-quality, comprehensive care for their communities. The health care system is also committed to the safety of patients, visitors and team members. With trends of increasing Workplace Violence (WPV) episodes directed at health care personnel, ThedaCare leaders developed a Workplace Violence Prevention framework and program to better prepare their team members to identify and respond to potential workplace violence situations. This session will highlight how this framework and program was implemented at ThedaCare Regional Medical Center–Neenah.

Session Objectives:

• Participants will learn more about the framework and structure for preventing workplace violence which has showed a reduction in workplace violence-related injuries at ThedaCare.
• Participants will be introduced to the tools and training provided to team members at ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah. Examples will also be shared which highlight the critical collaboration between clinical team members, security officers and system leaders to closely engage all team members at ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah.

 

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Expert Clinical Guidance for Challenging Addiction Cases

If you treat individuals struggling with opioid, stimulant, alcohol, or other drug addictions and have a complex case that could benefit from expert clinical support, the Substance Use Clinical Support Office Hours are here for you. If you're looking to expand your network of colleagues and seek guidance on treatment options for challenging cases, these opportunities are available to you.
 

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Healthcare Quality Data Sanity Workshop

Join WHA and Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative for a workshop on data analysis and performance improvements. This interactive workshop will help participants analyze and interpret their data and learn ways to utilize Excel to report where there are opportunities for improvements. Performance improvements to initiate based on this data analysis will also be presented. Participants should have their laptops at this workshop and data that they have questions on or struggles with.

Objectives:

• Increased knowledge of working with data, drilling down data, and analysis for opportunites of Improvement
• Ability to apply appropriate Performance Improvement methods

Davis Balestracci, M.S. statistics, will present. He is well known for delivering his message of "data sanity" through an internationally acclaimed passionate, provocative, challenging, yet humorous and down-to-earth public speaking style.

Cost is $50 per hospital with two attendees allowed per hospital. Sponsored by Wisconsin Office of Rural Health.

For details and more information, see brochure.

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