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Welcome to the Montreal Children's Hospital
1 June 2023
The Montreal Children’s Hospital (MCH) introduces a new program to improve patient safety. “Mission: Safety” pursues this essential goal: preventing and reducing safety events in the delivery of healthcare services.
Establishing a safety culture where individuals can confidently report safety issues without fear of blame or judgement is an important part of this program. It also focuses on an institutional commitment to continuous quality improvement through safety event review, analysis and sharing of actionable findings related to patient safety.
To achieve these goals, a Patient Safety Advisory Committee chaired by Dr. Samara Zavalkoff, the MCH’s inaugural medical director of Patient Safety, Alexandra Black, Safety co-lead, and Jordana Saada, interim Safety co-lead, was formed in June 2021. Since then, the safety program has led many activities to promote a culture of safety at the MCH:
1. Establish a singular structure to review, analyze and address all safety events at the MCH
2. Support implementation of key safety initiatives such as:
3. Identify and track safety key performance indicators
4. Join the international collaborative Solutions for Patient Safety that supports pediatric hospitals to be leaders in patient safety and implement solutions to common safety problems.
The entire MCH community is called upon to contribute to these objectives to improve patient safety and the culture of safety. Because safety is everyone’s business!