• Press Release

Conference: Solutions in Safe Patient Handling sponsored by the Mount Sinai Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health

  • New York, NY
  • (June 30, 2015)

This day-long program focused on the latest evidence-based research, best practices, and practical solutions from around the country on safe patient handling designed to protect health care workers from injury and to ensure quality patient care. Attendees from throughout the metropolitan New York area and the Lower Hudson Valley, as well as other regional professionals, learned how to create, evaluate, and maintain a program designed for long-term success that complies with the safe patient handling legislation recently passed in New York State.

Topics included how to develop a comprehensive safe patient handling program that promotes a strong culture of safety, identifies risks and hazards, incorporates appropriate patient handling equipment and necessary training, and educates both patients and workers on safety. This program offered attendees the opportunity to understand the paradigm shift underway in patient handling and the skills to implement a program in safe patient handling at their own institution.

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