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SCH adopts Nat’l uniform color-coded wristbands
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SUNBURY — Sunbury Community Hospital (SCH) has joined a nationwide effort to standardize patient identification.
Hospitals use color-coded wristbands to help identify patients’ specific information, such as fall risks, allergies or do-not-resuscitate orders.
However, each hospital uses different colors to identify different information. This has proven problematic for health-care workers employed at several different hospitals at which color codes have different meanings.
The Patient Safety Authority issued advisory warnings about the risks of misreading the wristbands and has now created a standardized system. The authority launched the campaign in June, calling it “Banding Together for Patient Safety.”
Now all hospitals joining the program will have the same meaning behind the colors used on the wristbands.
When asked about the initiative, SCH Quality Management Coordinator Mel Adams said, “We do everything we can to keep our patients safe; they are our number one priority.”
Hospital employees completed training throughout the month of July to learn the new system.
“There are only five main colors, but they make a big difference in a hospital,” SCH Risk Manager Cathy Keister said. “This small step can make a big difference for our patients at Sunbury Community Hospital.”
Hospitals use color-coded wristbands to help identify patients’ specific information, such as fall risks, allergies or do-not-resuscitate orders.
However, each hospital uses different colors to identify different information. This has proven problematic for health-care workers employed at several different hospitals at which color codes have different meanings.
The Patient Safety Authority issued advisory warnings about the risks of misreading the wristbands and has now created a standardized system. The authority launched the campaign in June, calling it “Banding Together for Patient Safety.”
Now all hospitals joining the program will have the same meaning behind the colors used on the wristbands.
When asked about the initiative, SCH Quality Management Coordinator Mel Adams said, “We do everything we can to keep our patients safe; they are our number one priority.”
Hospital employees completed training throughout the month of July to learn the new system.
“There are only five main colors, but they make a big difference in a hospital,” SCH Risk Manager Cathy Keister said. “This small step can make a big difference for our patients at Sunbury Community Hospital.”
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