NEW: Hasbro Children’s Hospital Named Hospital of the Month
Tuesday, January 07, 2014
Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence has been recognized as a Phase II Hospital of the Month by the Children’s Hospitals’ Solutions for Patient Safety Network, a national network of children’s hospitals committed to the highest safety and quality standards. The initiative, launched in Ohio in 2009 and recently expanded nationally, aims to reduce safety events, like surgical site infections, readmissions and adverse drug reactions.
The hospital was recognized for its efforts in implementing new safety procedures and processes over the past few months. The recognition followed the submission of November data, in which the hospital was found to be 100 percent compliant in its outcomes data submission, submitted more than 50 percent of its process data, and had a 100 percent attendance rate for weekly information sessions. The hospital received this distinction after only beginning its Drive to Zero harm initiative in January of 2013.
Ivona Sediva, M.D., a pediatric critical care attending physician and medical director of pediatric quality and safety at Hasbro Children’s Hospital has lead the hospital’s Drive to Zero efforts.
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The new procedures are directed toward reducing catheter-associated blood stream infections, urinary tract infections due to foley catheters, ventilator-associated pneumonias, surgical site infections, patient falls, pressure ulcers, adverse drug events, readmissions and venous thrombo-embolic events. All are avoidable patient events that can happen frequently in the medical setting.
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