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Zach Johnson

Three NAATP members innovate to reduce safety events with VisibleHand

All three organizations improved safety, even while treating more acute clients. Elopement and wandering were reduced by over 50%.

Matt Morris

Addiction treatment provider, A Mission for Michael, innovates to improve patient safety

"We couldn't say for sure if our staff were actually doing their rounds."

Matt Morris

What do psych hospitals record on their Q15 sheets?

What do psych hospitals record on their Q15 sheets? We analyzed the more than 300 survey responses collected APNA.

Matt Morris

ROI - Digital Rounding for Q15s & safety checks

What is the true cost of an adverse safety event at a psychiatric hospital or addiction treatment center?

Matt Morris

No more ‘average’ health techs!

Most units have high and low performing staff members. The trick is knowing who is who. See our analysis of 100k+ observations.

Matt Morris

How to Create a Safety Staff Performance Score

We created the scoring system after analyzing hundreds of thousands of patient safety observations. Here, you can learn to build your own.

Matt Morris

Why Safety Checks are so Hard.

A 100-bed psych hospital conducts 9,600+ Q15 checks per day! What makes Q15 compliance so hard?

Matt Morris

Q15 Safety Checks // Goals + Performance Indicators

Continuing on our Q15 (safety check) deep dive series. In this post we will cover the goals of Q15 safety checks and the attributes we...

Matt Morris

Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas use VisibleHand to improve Q15 safety checks and patient safety

The Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ) shares a case study written by Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas (BHSET)...

Zach Johnson

Northbound Treatment saves hundreds of hours, improves patient safety.

Northbound Treatment uses VisibleHand to improve patient safety and reduce workload by hundreds of hours.

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