General

• Calendar of Events: [DOC]
  
• Roadmap: [PDF]
• Retained Foreign Object Overview Article: [PDF]

Project Tools

• Accounting for Packed Items: [DOC]

Conference presentations:

MHA conference call

• Dec. 15, 2009: [listen]
  

Safe Account Campaign Kick-Off, Oct. 27, 2009

• "Welcome and Overview of the SAFE ACCOUNT Initiative," Julie Apold, director of patient safety, Minnesota Hospital Association: [PPT]
• "Learnings from Minnesota - Retained Objects," Diane Rydrych, assistant director, division of health policy, Minnesota Department of Health: [PPT]
• "The ACCOUNT Bundle," Dana Langness, RN, BSN, MA, senior director, perioperative services, Regions Hospital, St. Paul: [PPT]
• "Strategies for Implementing the ACCOUNT Bundle," Carol Hamlin, RN, MSN, director, departmental performance, University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview, Minneapolis; and Dana Langness, Regions Hospital: [PPT]
• "Technology Adjuncts to Preventing Retained Foreign Objects," Steven Meisel, PharmD, patient safety officer, Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis: [PPT]
• "Retained Surgical Sponges, Process Improvement for Patient Safety," Leon Josephs, M.D., chief of surgery, St. Vincents Hospital, Worchester, MA: [PPT]
• "Sponge Accounting Systems," Larry Asplin, RN, MS, CNOR, clinical director surgery, St. Cloud Hospital: [PDF]
• "RFO Prevention: The Mayo Story," James D. Clark, MSN, RN, nursing education specialist; Sarah R. Pool, RN, MS, resource nurse manager; and Cheryl A. Weisbrod, MSN, RN, nurse administrator, surgical services, Mayo Clinic, Rochester: [PPT]