2025 Community of Human and Organizational Learning 31st Annual Conference

Background: The Children's Hospitals' Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS) network is comprised of 150 Children's Hospitals across the United States and Canada, unified in the mission to work together to eliminate serious harm across all children's hospitals. Given significant ongoing opportunity to improve pediatric safety outcomes, coupled with the limitations of traditional approaches to safety improvement, Network leaders and subject matter experts committed to embracing a modern, proactive approach to safety.

Aim/Objectives: SPS Network leadership and subject matter experts aimed to support all Network hospitals in adopting proactive safety concepts and tools within local hospital improvement efforts, with the goal of accelerating safety outcome improvements.

Methods: Efforts began with the development of an interdisciplinary guiding team from across the Network, who contributed to the development of a proactive safety toolkit. The proactive safety toolkit included resources on various proactive approaches to safety including the use of learning teams, Walk-Through-Talk Throughs (WT3), proactive safety huddles, proactive safety simulation and ways to evolve our language with the frontline. Initial Network-wide will-building was followed closely by a multi-phased approach to support knowledge acquisition and practical application of tools at a local hospital level. This session will highlight the strategies utilized to support Network-wide adoption of proactive safety concepts and tools and share case examples of the practical application at the Network and hospital level.

Results: The process measures and initial outcomes will be discussed at the presentation.