North Oaks Health System Awarded Funds for Safety Grant

North Oaks Health System is one of 14 Louisiana healthcare facilities to receive the 2023 Funds for Safety grant sponsored by LHA Trust Funds. The annual grant program helps healthcare organizations fund their unique patient safety improvement initiatives.

North Oaks Health System’s Funds for Safety initiative is to implement an integrated technology in the Emergency Department that will assist clinical staff with appropriate alerts for high-fall-risk patients. Stretchers with integrated scales and two-stage bed exit alarms will be used to decrease patient falls by monitoring pressure sensitivity.

LHA Trust Funds created the Funds for Safety grant program in 2012 to help fund its members’ initiatives to improve patient safety. Since its creation, the grant program has awarded more than $3.3 million to fund more than 100 unique projects for facilities in Louisiana.

Learn more about the Funds for Safety grant program at https://bit.ly/funds-for-safety.

05/30/2023