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Soaring to New Safety Heights

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Sun Jan 01 2006

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The article focuses on the safety training programs in medical centers. A unique aviation-based training has improved the patient safety and quality of care in a Tennessee medical facility center. Dr. John Sergent, chief medical officer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee said in 2003 that in the future Vanderbilt will become the best institution in the U.S. in terms of safety and quality. After 3 years, although a number of personnel of medical center admit that it has not reached that point but the training facility 3 years ago had helped the hospital to gain respect among its competitors. The recent Leapfrog hospital Quality and Safety Survey has ranked Vanderbilt among the top ten of 900 hospitals. The need of safety and quality improvement was realized when a report came, disclosing that medical errors are responsible for at least 44,000 to 98,000 deaths per year in U.S. Vanderbilt got its safety and quality training from LifeWing partners, the healthcare division of Memphis-based Crew Training International. They started utilizing the proven safety tools and practices of military and commercial aviation of U.S. It was a comprehensive training which had classroom only as a small part of the program. The training also included involvement of patients.

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