How Safe is Your Hospital? Overview
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Albert Einstein
To achieve our vision for optimal healthcare we invite you to join our efforts to improve healthcare outcomes. The effort includes, events, projects and resources that: Re-frame: Envision: Empower: Inform: Deliberate: Engage: Track: healthcare related information and challenges.
In addition to providing patient safety performance information about the hospital, the user, individuals or organizations, can "actionize" the information with our Getting to ZERO hospital associated medical conditions by 2024 treatment plan.
Re-frame
Our strategy is to reframe the discussions associated with our healthcare system from “what can I get”, to “what can we, as citizens, not just as consumers and patients, do to achieve a healthcare system that is affordable, and provides access to quality care for all of us?” When it comes to HAI’s, Citizens4health re-frames the challenge from HAI are an unavoidable result of sophisticated, necessary medical care in complex environment to unacceptable preventable occurrences caused by lack of following guidelines. We must all work together to eliminate preventable HAI. Working together stakeholders can bring the HAI rates to where they need to be, at zero.
Envision
By November 2022 all Philadelphia (Delaware Valley) hospitals publicly report in a user-friendly manner the patient safety outcomes for medical care at their institutions
By November 2024 there will be no serious medical errors occurring in any Philadelphia area hospitals
Hospitals, following evidence based practice, have achieved impressive results.
There's a growing portfolio of proven practices to make care safer.
Empower
Ataul Gawande's presentation to national governors association when noted that change has occurred when patient demand better outcomes. Why are hospital associated conditions measures important? (From Medicare compare)
Inform
We feature relevant information and documents related hospital performance as well as stakeholders “accountable” for patient safety. We utilize data from Medicare Compare hospital reporting of patient safety performance to populate our interactive report card for Delaware Valley hospitals. Because we believe that HAI are preventable, each hospital is “graded” on a PASS / FAIL grading scale for HAI prevention and each individual infection is reported.
In addition you may find information about:
Legal requirement for public reporting
Content sources and description of the information VA Health System,New Jersey Hospitals, Delaware Hospitals Medicare Compare
Resources
Deliberate
Survey: Eliminating Healthcare Associated Infections The goal of this survey is to identify the barriers to eliminating all preventable healthcare associated infections (HAI).
Engage
We are testing the following equation
PATIENTS & HOSPITALS & DOCTORS + EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE + PUBLIC REPORTING, TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY + CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT=
LIVES SAVED AND LOWER COST OF HEALTHCARE
What can I do to improve the healthcare safety culture and eliminate medical errors?Getting to ZERO hospital associated medical conditions by 2017 treatment plan.
We believe that by working together, implementing a citizen oriented treatment plan we will eliminate preventable medical errors and other healthcare acquired conditions. Here are actions you can take to help all of us achieve the goal ZERO medical errors and healthcare associated conditions by November 2017.
Do your part Engage with your doctor Engage with fellow citizens Engage with the hospital Engage with stakeholders Engage with politicians Engage with the media
Track
We utilize social media strategy that leverages Twitter, Facebook, Linkdin and our blogs to engage interested individuals and organizations in our efforts.
How safe is your hospital? will include a short narrative summarizing the findings reported in the hospital report card as well as other information about the featured hospital. The information about the hospital will be available on our website, and can be easily downloaded as a PDF document. Additionally we send out a periodic newsletter to interested individuals.
