Register today to attend the Collaborative Safety Orientation Nov. 7

Register today to attend the Collaborative Safety Orientation Nov. 7

Join your colleagues and MDH partners for the Collaborative Safety orientation session from 1 to 4 p.m. on Nov 7, 2022, to learn about how MDH’s Health Regulation Division is partnering with providers collaboratively to learn from past issues, incidents or correction orders to improve systems.

Register today for email reminder.

• HRD’s Collaborative Safety initiative aims to collaboratively work with providers, partners, facilities, and others interested in improving outcomes by reviewing issues and incidents outside of the regulatory environment to identify influences, barriers, potential solutions and, ultimately, improve the system. Collaborative Safety benefits include:
  Understand why a decision was made given the circumstances, the influences and systemic structures at the time of the incident.
• Move beyond focusing on people and outcomes and learning why people with good intent were faced with unintended consequences.
• Reduce unconscious bias in the review process.

"We want to learn what influences the decision-making process frontline staff must make, along with the barriers, pressures, policies and environment at the time an incident happens. We want to listen to the perspectives of people who work in healthcare settings, and learn how system features, such as technology or policies, impact their decisions,” said Catherine Lloyd, a partnership and planning manager. “Safety science offers providers and regulators the opportunity to review critical incidents at a deeper level to discover issues, gaps or opportunities to improve the system and improve outcomes.”

Orientation attendees will have the opportunity to see a presentation by Collaborative Safety, LLC, to learn about opportunities for providers, partners, policy makers and the public to identify the influences that cause violations in healthcare settings and discover ways to holistically address issues throughout the system.

“We’re excited about the opportunity to collaborate with providers and discover how we can make changes in our system, changes in the way we communicate with each other, changes in how we improve our systems, and create better outcomes in our health care systems,” Lloyd said.