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  • Oro™ 2.0 Helps Hospital Leadership Assess Organizational High Reliability [®] Perspectives November 2015, Vol 35 , #11, Pg 1 The Joint Commission’s Center for Transforming Healthcare has again applied its Robust Process Improvement approach to a challenging topic. This time it has developed an online interactive process for identifying organization-specific resource and strategy recommendations to help hospital leaders move their organizations further and faster along a path toward high reliability.  Learn more
    
  • Please COMMENT on your experience with Oro™ 2.0/its relevance to psychiatric hospitals and/or your organization’s efforts to move toward high reliability.
    

**RECOMMENDED READING:

1. PR: Oro^TM 2.0 Helps Hospital Leadership Assess Organizational High Reliability (PDF/QV)[REF:AOM, LDR]
2. PR: New Alert Discusses Prevention of Patient Falls (PDF/QV) [REF: PI, RN]
   
3. TS: Stewardship as a Shared Mental Model for Health Care Management and Delivery, Part 1 (PDF/QV) [REF: LDR]
4. TS: New Sentinel Event Alert on Patient Falls (PDF/QV) [REF: RNx]
5. EC: Emergency Management: …crisis standards of care, part 1 (PDF/QV) [REF: JCSC, LDR, PI]
6. EC: Managing hospital risks associated with an interrupted or contaminated water supply (PDF/QV) [REF: JCSC, LDR, PI]
7. EC: C&E: New Physical Environment Portal provides online resources to help with challenging standards (PDF/QV) [REF: JCSC, LDR, PI]

**USEFUL UPDATES, LINKS & DOWNLOADS:

• New Speak Up™_Antibiotics: Know the Facts
• Edmonson Psychiatric Fall Risk Assessment Tool (EPFRAT)
• TJC: Sentinel Event Alert #55 – Fall Prevention
  
• CMS: Crisis Standards of Care: A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response
  
• Latest TJC Blogs: Physician Leader Monthly – Leadership Blog