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Hospital Codes. For decades emergency alert codes (e.g. Code Blue, Code Red) have been widely used in hospitals throughout the country. These codes are a way of quickly alerting team members to critical situations without alarming patients and visitors.
2020 Plain Language Medical Codes for Conversion. Why Change Codes? - Conversion to plain language emergency codes is a national recommendation to reduce confusion. - Endorsed by Connecticut Hospital Association and the Hospital Association of Rhode Island.
The Missouri Hospital Association issued the Standardized, Plain Language Emergency Codes Implementation Guide. The use of standardized codes will increase transparency, reduce patient errors using a simple and practical approach and promote the safety of patients, hospital employees and visitors.
The proposed alerts are based on plain language communications, with three optional universal code color alerts remaining, and address the three types of events that occur in hospitals: facility alerts (i.e. hazardous material spills and fires), security alerts (i.e. active shooters and missing persons) and, medical events (i.e. visitor falls, c...
The WNY HEPC Communications Workgroup and the Security Coordinators Workgroups developed a Plain Language Emergency Codes implementation plan based on the Minnesota and Missouri’s ‘Category + Alert + Location + Directions’ plain language alert model recommendations and implementation guidance.
It is recommended hospitals follow these steps to implement standardized, plain language codes once the hospital has established formal organizational approval and decision to adopt the codes. The steps and time lines are guidance only and should be modified to meet organizational priorities and approaches.
emergency alerts to standardized plain language emergency codes by October 1, 2024. To enhance consistency and effectiveness in managing safety, security and clinical incidents, WSHA developed a 10-month project timeline with hospitals to standardize these codes.
standardized, plain language emergency alerts in lieu of hospital-specific, color-based emergency codes. Using plain language to alert staff, physicians, patients and visitors to an emergency situation is part of our ongoing work to promote safety, reduce errors and increase transparency of communications and safety protocols.
Board of Trustees endorses the adoption of standardized, plain language emergency codes throughout Missouri hospitals and facilities. The use of standardized codes will increase transparency, reduce patient errors using a simple and practical approach and promote the safety of patients, hospital employees and visitors.
This document describes the rationale for updating color codes for emergencies in hospitals to plain language alerts. Plain language is preferable because color codes previously differed by health care system, feedback indicated color codes caused stress, and the Joint Commission supported adoption of more transparent language for alerts.