award

 

Staff at the North Bay Regional Health Centre have received a provincial safety honour. The MORE Patient Safety Award is given to teams that have demonstrated exceptional commitment to improving patient safety.

MORE stands for Managing Obstetrics Risk Efficiently.

In a release, only 4 such awards have been presented this year across North America.

The local submission Beyond The Walls of the Birthing Unit which was a maternal code blue/code pink emergency mock drill.

The awards committee recognized the health centre’s commitment to education, evaluation, reflective learning, practicing together and practice modification.

The mock code took place in March and the committee says code blue/code pink is the most complicated arrest scenario.