Saturday, January 31, 2015

MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN ABILENE RECOGNIZED FOR PATIENT SAFETY


MEMORIAL HOSPITAL RECOGNIZED FOR PATIENT SAFETY 

 
ABILENE- Memorial Hospital has been recognized by the Kansas Hospital Association and the Healthcare Collaborative for its participation in a three-year national Partnership for Patients initiative known as the Hospital Engagement Network.

Memorial Hospital and 99 other hospitals collectively prevented an estimated 3,800 safety events. The Department of Health and Human Services reported that the national efforts to improve patient safety resulted in an estimated 1.3 million fewer patient safety events, 50,000 lives saved, and $12 billion in health spending avoided.

“Memorial Hospital’s health care team is devoted to safe, high quality care delivery,” said Brenda Moffitt, Memorial Health System Chief Nursing Officer. “We are proud of the collaboration with our peers across the state, our patients, and the impact our work has made to improve patient safety. We appreciate the physicians, nurses, and other key staff who contributed to this successful initiative.” Moffitt said.

Memorial Hospital has been a consistent leader in focusing on safety across the board with strong engagement in the patient safety focus areas since the beginning of the project. Some major accomplishments to demonstrate this engagement are:

There have been no catheter-associated urinary tract infections since December 2013.
There have been zero surgical site infections since January 2013.
Since April 2013, there have been no early elective deliveries. The OB area has adopted tools that have created reliable and efficient processes for ensuring scheduled OB procedures are medically appropriate.

Memorial Hospital prevented more than 80 readmissions. At an average cost of $8,808 per readmission, estimated health care cost savings exceeded $704,000.

For more information about Memorial Hospital and patient safety initiatives, please contact Moffitt at 785-263-6612.

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