Risk management Committee

Members of the Committee
                                                                                      
- Gilbert Daoust, President and representing the Council of Nurses
- Claudette Rainville-Stanton, Vice-President and representing the Users' Committee
- Mélanie Francoeur, Secretary and Risk and Quality Manager
- Richard Grimard, Executive Director
- Gail Ryan, Director of Physical Health and Nursing Care Programs
- Ann Rondeau, Director of Autonomy Support Program
- Sophie Bonin, Representing the Multidisciplinary Council
- Benoit Paré, Service Quality and Complaints Commissioner
- Margaret Wilson, Representing contract-partner organizations
- Dr Athanassios Karabatsos, Representing the Council of physicians, Dentists and Pharmacists 
                                                                

 Functions

The functions of the RMC include seeking, developing and promoting ways to:

 a) Identify and analyze incident or accident risks to ensure the safety of users in particular in the case of hospital-acquired infections, prevent an outbreak and control a recurrenc
b)  Make sure that support is provided to the victim and the close relatives of the victim;
c) Establish a monitoring system including the creation of a local register of incidents and accidents for the purpose of analyzing the causes of incidents and accidents;
d) Recommend to the board of directors of the institution measures to prevent such incidents and accidents from recurring and any appropriate control measures;
e) Determine the support measures to be made available to users and close relatives of users, in accordance with section 235.1 of the Act;
f)  Ensure that methods, policies, procedures, standards and directives are established and kept updated in order to identify, prevent and reduce risks, accidents and incidents;
g) Transmit an annual report to the board of directors including, if applicable, recommendations concerning risk and quality management;
h) Ensure that appropriate information and training are provided in the institution to the persons concerned.

We held three meetings and the main subjects discussed were:
2009-2010 meeting schedules
Presentation of the monitoring chart for follow-up of reports on incidents/accidents for every period
Emergency measures plan and fire drills
  Installation of the new computer software SISSS (Système d’information sur la sécurité des soins et des services)
  Case analysis / sentinel events
  Accreditation 2011
 Writing and distribution of internal bulletins:  Policy on opiates, annual report 2008-2009 and reminder on the importance of risk management
  Coroner’s report
  Prevention of infections, management of nosocomial infections
  Presentation of the AMPRO program (Approche multidisciplinaire en prévention des risques obstétricaux)
  Control and restraint measures in residential centres.

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