Patient Safety Goals

 

Patient Safety Goals Declaration

We hereby declare that our hospitals patient safety is at the heart of our ability to offer consistent, reliable quality care as guided by JCI/QCI/NABH International Patient Safety Goals dated ______. That is why, we are committed to taking every possible step to assure Your safety. Towards this, we have launched the Patient Safety Declaration which is followed by across the hospitals.

 

International Patient Safety Goals   Goal One - Identify patients correctly.   Goal Two - Improve effective communication.   Goal Three - Improve the safety of high-alert medications.   Goal Four - Ensure safe surgery.   Goal Five - Reduce the risk of health care-associated infections.   Goal Six - Reduce the risk of patient harm resulting from falls.

 

The Declaration:

We have a separate ID number for Identify patients correctly.

We have a person designated for patient safety.

We have a Patient Safety Committee with representatives from medical services, nursing, engineering, housekeeping, pharmacy and infection control that shall meet every quarter.

We have training program for all our employees on patient safety issues.

We have educate our patients on patient safety issues.

We have a policy and implemented system on reporting of adverse events within the hospital.

We have collect rates for the following patient safety indices:

Hospital associated infections

·        UTI

·        SISI

·        CALBSI

·        VAP

Patient fall

Pressure ulcer

Needle stick injuries

Medication errors

 

As we know that the best outcomes occur when everyone is involved in patient safety, we believe that all staff shall join hands to form a National Patient Safety Network for sharing of the best practices in patient safety. Every staff shall endeavour to prevent the ‘Never Events’ listed by the National Quality Forum.

 

 

Authorised Signatory

Date :