In an effort to help improve overall patient safety and quality of care - and reduce potential harm - in hospitals and other healthcare facilities across the state, the HASC Safety & Security Committee and AllHealth Security Services recently released an updated version of its Healthcare Emergency Codes guide.
According to Aviva Truesdell, senior vice president of AllHealth, standardization and uniformity of emergency codes can assist hospitals in numerous ways. For example, due to the mobility of today's healthcare workforce, many hospitals share physicians, nurses and other staff. As such, it has become increasingly important for healthcare professionals to have a standard set of emergency codes that are easily recognized and understood from one healthcare facility to the next.
The implementation of a common code system across all facilities would reduce potential confusion among staff responding to different emergency incidents, and would facilitate communication between hospitals and public safety authorities during regional or statewide natural disasters or terrorist incidents.
Please click here to access online PDF and Word versions of the Healthcare Emergency Codes document located on the HASC website.
Contact: Aviva Truesdell (213) 538-0710
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