Eric William Branning
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, United States
Biography
Eric W. Branning has completed his MBA from the Fox School of Business at Temple University, and an MA in Organizational Psychology from Rutgers University. He is an Enterprise Improvement Advisor in the of the department of Saftey and Medical Operations at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, a premier pedeatriac research and academic medical center. He is a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.
Abstract
Better understanding incidents of employee injury related to patient behavioral events (PBE) has helped identify potential interventions to protect staff from harm. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is part of an Employee Safety and Staff (ESS) cohort of several pediatric health systems through the Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS) Children’s Hospital collaborative. The specific objective is to decrease CHOP’s PBE DART rate from baseline by 25% by June 30, 2019. Our baseline data was 0.293 at project kick-off. There are four work streams dedicated to improving the identification and knowledge of severe employee harm related to patient behaviors. We seek to identify innovative methods and practices to anticipate and lessen the occurrences of employee harm related to patient behaviors that will help with employee satisfaction as well as continuously allowing all healthcare professionals to provide high quality and safe care for their patients. The intended result is to reduce the PBE DART rate by 25% or better. This would be rate of 0.21975. The current PBE DART rate is well on track and exceeds the stated goal reduction. All hospitals in SPS have agreed that they will begin to standardize the way they review and investigate these injuries. We are working to eliminate staff Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred (DART) due to staff harm caused by patients. So far 43% of the PBE injuries involved a patient medically cleared and awaiting transfer at the time of injury. Further data review is forthcoming.