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The National Hospital of Saint Maurice (HNSM) for Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation aims at strengthening its position as a pivot rehabilitation
and physical therapy center. The opening in 2011 of a new unit for the evaluation
and treatment of motor disabilities meets this objective. This project includes
several parts: clinical, financial, architectural, organizational, applied
clinical research as well as dealing with medical equipments and information
system. This study focuses on the risk assessment of this future technical unit.
This study was conducted by a group of professionals working for the
hospital. It started with the design of a functional model to better comprehend
the system to be analyzed. Risk assessment consists in confronting this
functional model to a list of dangers in order to determine the vulnerable areas
of the system. Then the team designed some scenarios to identify the causes,
securities barriers and consequences in order to rank the risks. RESULTS: The
analysis targeted various dangers, e.g. political, strategic, financial,
economical, marketing, clinical and operational. The team identified more than 70
risky scenarios. For 75% of them the criticality level was deemed initially
tolerable and under control or unacceptable. The implementation of an action plan
for reducing the level of risks before opening this technical unit brought the
system down to an acceptable level at 66%. CONCLUSION: A year prior to opening
this technical unit for the evaluation and treatment of motor disabilities,
conducting this preliminary risk assessment, with its exhaustive and rigorous
methodology, enabled the concerned professionals to work together around an
action plan for reducing the risks.
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Langue : ANGLAIS ; FRANCAIS