Abstract
[This is an excerpt.] CODE LAVENDER is a crisis intervention tool used to support any person in a Cleveland Clinic hospital. Patients, family members, volunteers, and healthcare staff can call a Code Lavender when a stressful event or series of stressful events occurs in the hospital. After the code is called, the Code Lavender team responds within 30 minutes. We offer Code Lavender, on average, twice a month at Hillcrest Hospital. This article describes a Code Lavender event at Hillcrest Hospital, a 496-bed acute care hospital that’s part of the Cleveland Clinic. This staff-support intervention was offered during 2016 to a group of hospital caregivers who’d been intimately involved with a patient over a 3-week hospitalization before she died unexpectedly. Code Lavender’s efficacy, implications, and wider applicability are also discussed. [To read more, click View Resource.]
