The hospital performs at least 20 procedures annually, and as part of their process for privileging surgeons, ensures that each surgeon performs at least 10 procedures annually. Additionally, this hospital does not indicate having a multidisciplinary tumor board that prospectively reviews cancer cases to ensure that pancreatic resections for cancer are only performed on patients that meet defined criteria.
Hospitals should perform at least 16 procedures annually, and as part of their process for privileging surgeons, ensure that each surgeon performs at least 6 procedures annually. Additionally, this hospital does not indicate having national accreditation from the American College of Surgeons or a multidisciplinary tumor board that prospectively reviews cancer cases to ensure that rectal cancer surgery is only performed on patients that meet defined criteria.
Hospitals should perform at least 50 procedures annually, and as part of their process for privileging surgeons, ensure that each surgeon performs at least 25 procedures annually. Additionally, this hospital does not have protocols in place to ensure that total hip replacement surgery is only performed on patients that meet defined criteria.
Additionally, this hospital does not have protocols in place to ensure that total knee replacement surgery is only performed on patients that meet defined criteria. Hospitals should perform at least 8 procedures annually, and as part of their process for privileging surgeons, ensure that each surgeon performs at least 5 procedures annually. Hospitals should ensure that a specially certified clinician and at least one physician or nurse anesthetist are present and immediately available while an adult patient is present until discharge.
Hospitals should ensure that a specially certified clinician and at least one physician or nurse anesthetist are present and immediately available while a pediatric patient is present until discharge. Hospitals should go through all the elements of a complete safe surgery checklist on all patients every time a procedure is performed.
The hospital provides written surgical consent forms the day of their procedure. The hospital provides written anesthesia consent forms the day of their procedure. Preparing your results. Please wait. Back to results Start a new search Share these results. Survey Submission Date: July 29, Show all Collapse all. This hospital scored Hand Hygiene Domain Performance Hospital regularly monitors hand hygiene practices Met the monthly requirements for monitoring using direct observation only. Feedback provided to ensure compliance with hand hygiene Met Appropriate training and education provided Did Not Meet Access to paper towels, soap dispensers, and hand sanitizer maintained Met Culture of good hand hygiene emphasized Met.
This hospital's rate of unintentional discrepancies per medication is: 0. Hospitals should have fewer than expected catheter-associated urinary tract infections. Intensivists are physicians with advanced training in intensive or critical care.
They learn to manage problems in the ICU and help to reduce errors. There are higher death rates in hospitals where ICU patients are not cared for by intensivists. Hospitals can earn up to points for staffing their ICUs with intensivists. The Communication with Doctors measure summarizes how well patients feel their doctors explained things clearly, listened carefully to them, and treated them with courtesy and respect.
Effective communication between doctors and patients can be reassuring to patients and can help prevent errors like medication mix-ups or misdiagnoses. The Communication with Nurses measure summarizes how well patients feel that their nurses explained things clearly, listened carefully to them, and treated them with courtesy and respect. Effective communication between nurses and patients can be reassuring to patients and can prevent errors like medication mix-ups or misdiagnoses.
If a patient is in pain, experiencing new symptoms, or cannot reach the bathroom himself, it is important that hospital staff respond quickly to address the situation. Higher scores indicate a faster response time than lower scores.
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This Hospital's Grade. Show Recent Past Grades. Learn how to use the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade. This Hospital's Score: 0. MRSA infection Staph bacteria are common in hospitals, but Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus MRSA is a type of staph bacteria that is resistant to cannot be killed by many antibiotics.
What safer hospitals do: Doctors and nurses should clean their hands after caring for every patient. Hospital rooms and medical equipment should be thoroughly cleaned often. Safer hospitals will also keep MRSA patients separate from other patients and require providers and visitors to wear gloves and gowns around these patients.
Safer hospitals will also keep C. Infection in the blood If a patient is in the hospital, he or she may be given a central line a tube inserted into the body to deliver medication and other treatments. What safer hospitals do: Hospital staff follows special guidelines when inserting central lines, often including a checklist of steps to follow.
Infection in the urinary tract If a patient is in the hospital, he or she may require a urinary catheter. What safer hospitals do: Hospital staff regularly clean and maintain urinary catheters to prevent infection. They also know when and how to safely remove a catheter. This Hospital's Score: 1. Surgical site infection after colon surgery This infection happens after surgery in the part of the colon where the surgery took place.
What safer hospitals do: The hospital team uses appropriate antibiotics before surgery, cleans the skin with a special soap that kills germs, and closely watches patients during and after major colon surgeries. This Hospital's Score: 5. What safer hospitals do: Hospital staff closely monitor patients for signs of sepsis following surgical procedures, including a high heart rate, low blood pressure, fatigue, confusion, and severe pain.
What safer hospitals do: The hospital team follows a strict procedure to count sponges and tools in the operating room. What safer hospitals do: Doctors and nurses monitor surgical wounds to make sure they are healing and that the stitches are still in place.
The staff also counsels patients on avoiding heavy lifting or intense physical activity after surgery. This Hospital's Score: Death from treatable serious complications Sometimes after surgery, patients can develop serious complications while they are in the hospital.
What safer hospitals do: The staff communicates well to quickly identify if there is a serious complication after surgery. They are ready to take action with an aggressive plan using patient safety guidelines. This Hospital's Score: 3. Blood Leakage If blood vessels become injured during surgery, they may leak excess blood within the body.
Kidney injury after surgery After major surgery, particularly heart surgery, some patients may experience kidney failure. Serious breathing problem After surgery some patients can develop a serious breathing problem. What safer hospitals do: Doctors and nurses watch carefully for symptoms like shortness of breath so they can prevent serious breathing problems.
Accidental cuts and tears For procedures of the abdomen and pelvis, there is a chance that the patient will suffer an accidental cut or tear of their skin or other tissue. Harmful events Dangerous bed sores Patient falls and injuries Falls causing broken hips Collapsed lung Dangerous blood clot Air or gas bubble in the blood.
Harmful Events Patients can experience complications and potentially harmful events following a surgery, a procedure, or childbirth. What safer hospitals do: These potentially avoidable safety events represent opportunities for improving patient care.
Dangerous bed sores A bed sore is a sore or wound on the skin that forms when a patient lays or sits in one position for too long without being moved. What safer hospitals do: When working with a patient who cannot move much on their own, hospital staff moves the patient regularly and checks for bed sores. They also use cushioning to protect bony areas and immediately take steps to treat existing sores.
Patient falls and injuries One common problem that patients face in the hospital is a serious injury or death resulting from a fall or other kind of trauma. What safer hospitals do: Hospital staff assist patients when they want to get up to use the restroom or move around the hospital.
Leadership and staff make sure that the hospital environment is clear of hazards that could cause a fall or other trauma. Patient beds may be equipped with alarms to alert staff if a patient who is at risk of falls tries to get out of bed on his or her own.
Hospital staff responds quickly to these alarms if they go off. Falls causing broken hips Patients in the hospital, especially those who are older or have weaker bones, are at risk of breaking their hip if they fall.
What safer hospitals do: Hospital staff should ensure patients know how to request assistance when they want to get out of bed. Collapsed lung A collapsed lung is when air leaks out of the lung and goes into the area between the lungs and the chest wall.
This Hospital's Score: 6. Dangerous blood clot A blood clot is a gathering of blood cells in a vein, which can be caused by damage to tissue during surgery. What safer hospitals do: Doctors use compression devices to apply pressure to areas of the body where a blood clot might form. They also give patients blood thinners and closely watch patients that might be at risk to prevent dangerous blot clots.
It also helps to get patients out of bed and walking around as soon as possible after surgery. He was forty-seven at the time of his death. He worked as a construction worker. However, a long fall required him to go to the emergency room of Alexian Brothers Hospital. While staying there, staff accidentally gave him Heparin. That improper IV was supposed to be for another patient, but the mishap had deadly consequences.
Then, his condition declined so badly that he died. His two children and wife survived him. This case was brought against two doctors and a hospital Alexian Brothers after a patient died following surgery.
He had an operation done to repair a hernia. However, he had previously been given a prosthetic heart valve. Staff did not monitor the man for bleeding following the operation. He went into hemorrhagic shock and then died. He was just forty-nine years old. Lawyers for the estate brought this claim. However, what we do know, is that they settled. Therefore, we cannot glean any information from the trial.
The victim in these circumstances was just a little baby. During delivery, the mother experienced placental abruption. However, doctors did not execute a C-section after these developments.
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