	Saint Joseph's Children's Hospital Even for trained healthcare providers, caring for a newborn can be difficult because of their size, delicacy, and unknown health conditions. That’s why Saint Joseph’s Children’s Hospital wanted a tool to help train a wide range of medical personnel in neonatal care. [more]

	Hartford Hospital Although simulation seems firmly embedded in healthcare education today, this was not always the case. Without the resolve of some medical educators, like those at Hartford Hospital, healthcare education might never have realized the life-saving training that simulation offers today’s healthcare professionals. [more]

	Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, internationally recognized for pediatric and obstetric care, provides a wide range of services for babies, children, adolescents, expectant mothers and now CPR Anytime discharge training. Long recognized for both their achievements and commitment to highly specialized care, Lucille Packard now provides CPR training to over 2,500 high risk patients each year. [more]

	The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) As one of the country’s leaders in providing quality pediatric healthcare, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) faces the constant need to meet the highest quality standards. The need to improve patient safety and quality of patient care became the cornerstone for CHOP to implement a simulation based education, training and research program. [more]

	Kettering Medical Center, Boston Medical Center, and Mercy Medical Center HeartCode BLS is an interactive, self-directed eLearning program from Laerdal and the American Heart Association. Read the stories from Kettering Medical Center, Boston Medical Center, and Mercy Medical Center to see how they have improved staff competency, decreased training costs and enhanced patient care by transitioning to HeartCode for BLS certification. [more]

	Stavanger Acute Medicine Foundation for Education and Research (SAFER) The University (School of Nursing) and the University Hospital in Stavanger, Norway, were both making use of simulation training, but wanted to integrate more simulation into the everyday training schedule in order to improve the training for healthcare students and for healthcare professionals. [more]

	Programme de simulation des Hôpitaux et de l’Université de Genève (SIMULHUG) Like many educators, Dr Georges Savoldelli, consultant anesthesiologist at the University Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland wanted to provide better training methods for the hospital’s physicians, nurses, and medical students - as he was convinced that this measure would enhance the quality of care and increase patient safety. [more]

	SimuLearn In the endeavor for improved patient safety, the director of SimuLearn in Bologna, Italy wanted to promote simulation as a better training method for medical personnel. The company had the necessary tools and facilities to conduct simulation courses,but needed partners to fund the actual activity. [more]

	Great Western Hospital Aiming for improved quality of care & increased patient safety, Great Western Hospital in Swindon, UK wanted to integrate simulation training with the established staff training program. [more]

	Danish Institute for Medical Simulation (DIMS) As the Anaesthesia Department at Herlev University Hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark played a central role in the development of a Danish simulator for anaesthesia in the early 1990s, staff from this department gained early experience with simulation training. Anaesthesiologists and nurse anaesthetists grew enthusiastic with this new way of training, and wanted to make it available to more medical personnel. Hence, the idea of an institute for simulation training was formed, and along with it, the endeavor to fund this undertaking. [more]

	Tubingen University Hospital (TuPASS) Having recognized that human factors underlie most medical errors, Tubingen University Hospital in Tubingen, Germany focused a broader approach to patient safety. Crisis Resource Management (CRM) training was seen as the best option to counteract the human factor threat, and simulation the obvious tool to make the deficits visible, understandable and trainable, and the means to reach the learning goals. [more]

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