Health Beyond Hospital: Integrated Discharge Hub Is Moving Forward
Multiple systemic reasons within acute care and community can result in delays in patient discharge. Patients who remain in hospital, but no longer require acute care support, are also at increased risk of hospital related harm. This blocks access for patients who need hospital beds. The system must be patient-centered by providing the right care to the patient.
Health Beyond Hospital: Integrated Discharge Hub is an initiative to support medically fit Nova Scotians to return home from hospital sooner. The goal of Health Beyond Hospital: Integrated Discharge Hub is to bring all partners together, review current state processes, and identify a model to test for Nova Scotia that enhances collaboration and understanding between hospital and community programs.
Find more information, including initiative partners involved and the progress to date, in the Health Beyond Hospital: Integrated Discharge Hub overview.
Multi-factor Authentication and Self-service Password Reset
MFA will be applied to all Microsoft 365 applications and will prompt you to verify your identity with the authentication methods you have registered. Please check your Nova Scotia Health email accounts for implementation dates and registration instructions.
You will be MFA prompted approximately every 30 days when accessing applications like Outlook email, MS Teams, and OneDrive. The new Self-Service Password Reset service will allow you to use your authentication methods to reset your password without having to call the Service Desk.
For more information about MFA and SSPR at Nova Scotia Health, visit our intranet: Multifactor Authentication for NSH. Questions or need assistance? Please call the Service Desk.
2025 Quality Awards Competition - NOW OPEN!
We are pleased to announce the annual NS Health Quality Awards competition. This is an opportunity to share the great quality work that your team is doing across NS Health and to showcase your team’s commitment to excellence, quality improvement, patient experience and patient safety! Nova Scotia Health Quality Awards are modeled on the Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL) National Awards Program.
Please ensure you meet the NS Health Quality Award Competition deadline Wednesday, November 13, 2024, at 4:00 pm as the package of submissions will be sent directly to the judging panel, so unfortunately, extensions cannot be granted. Winners will be announced in December 2024.
The NS Health Quality Award competition welcomes submissions to one of following most applicable categories for your initiative:
1) Health Care Innovation Team Award
Recognizes disruptive innovation, cutting edge system transformation and outcomes, diverse population, and sustainability of change. Honors teams who within the past three years have worked on a results-oriented initiative that has created significant, sustained change over a min. of 18 months. Two sub-categories:
a) Disruptive innovation initiative(s) within an organization: focused on a major issue in fundamental and sustained change within a single site, or multi-site organization.
b) Disruptive innovation initiative(s) across a health system: innovation intervention resulting in fundamental and sustained change across the continuum of care, between two or more organizations, service networks or partners.
2) Award of Excellence in Mental Health and Addictions Quality Improvement
Honors a hospital, health authority, community program/service, or a leader that demonstrates evidence-informed and sustained quality improvements in the area of mental health and addictions.
3) Excellence in Patient Experience Award
Honors organizations and individuals who have set in place innovations that improve the human experience in healthcare.
4) Excellence in Patient Safety Award
Recognizes individuals/teams committed to improving patient safety within healthcare, through leadership, culture, best practices, innovation, or change management.
5) Excellence in Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accessibility Award
Recognizes teams within NS Health that are committed to creating and promoting diversity and inclusion to improve the environment for its employees, and to better service their customers/patients, and the community.
Submission forms for each award are found on the Quality & Safety Intranet Site under the Quality Awards Tab.
All awards submissions should be sent electronically to Jolene.Whitmore@nshealth.ca for review. Your entire submission should be in one electronic PDF file. Please ensure you keep the word version of your document for future editing purposes. Please ensure all text fields prior to saving as PDF are in editable word version (not pasted photo/PDF versions).
Thank you and we look forward to your submissions!
Reflecting on World Patient Safety Day: How OPOR Will Enhance Patient Care
World Patient Safety Day, recognized annually on September 17, was established in 2019 by the World Health Organization, with the goal of promoting public awareness and understanding of patient safety, and encouraging collaboration between patients, health workers, policymakers, and healthcare leaders.
While World Patient Safety Day promotes conversations on a global scale, it’s also a great time to highlight initiatives underway right now in Nova Scotia, including the work being advanced by the One Person One Record (OPOR) Program, which will serve to enhance patient outcomes and experiences across the province – including information and processes around diagnostics.
This year’s theme is, “Improving diagnosis for patient safety,” highlighting how important timely and accurate diagnosis is in ensuring patient safety and improving health outcomes. The slogan, “Get it right, make it safe!” also resonates with the OPOR Program as patient safety is at the core of this clinical transformation.
The OPOR team has spent hundreds of hours with local subject matter experts to evaluate workflows, equipment, resources, and data, to inform the design of the new OPOR Clinical Information System (OPOR-CIS) to ensure we “get it right” and that we have a system that is optimized for care in Nova Scotia.
Learn more here.
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