Be Safe: Advancing UVA's Status as the Safest Place to Work and Receive Care

Be Safe emphasizes real-time, root cause problem-solving; the use of standard work to drive learning and improvement; and rapid escalation of safety issues within a tiered leadership chain.  

Be Safe Goals

This collective, system-wide focus on safety allows us to:

• Deliver the best and safest care possible.
• Develop and consistently adhere to “best practices.” For example, finding the safest way to complete a task, such as inserting a urinary catheter, and following those steps every single time.
• Make best practices our “standard work.” This means making the best way to complete a task the way we automatically do it every time.
• Call out and respond to safety concerns the moment any team member becomes aware of them.
• Rapidly escalate problems to leadership, when needed.
• Address the root cause of problems. No “work-arounds.” 

Be Safe Priorities

As part of Be Safe, we are closely monitoring and working to improve the following measures:

• Mortality
• Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI)
• Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI)
• Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers (HAPU)
• Patient Falls with Injury
• Team Member Injuries