Click the links in the Treatment Area column to view the survey results for a specific treatment.
Open Heart Surgery |
Covenant HealthCare utilizes care paths, pre-printed orders, cardiology-specific discharge instructions, patient education materials, and outcome measures for open heart surgery patients. Each record is reviewed and elements abstracted into an STS database for national benchmarks. Meetings are held to review findings. |
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention |
Covenant HealthCare utilizes a care path, pre-printed orders, cardiology-specific discharge instructions, educational materials, and outcome measures. Each record is also reviewed and elements abstracted into the STS database for national benchmarks. Meetings are held to review findings. |
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair |
The development of a care path and other supporting documents and measurements has been approved and is in the planning stages. |
Carotid Endarterectomy Surgery |
Covenant HealthCare has a care path, pre-printed orders, educational documents and outcome measures. |
Low Birthweight Infants and Infants with Congenital Anomalies |
Covenant HealthCare utilizes care paths and other supporting documents, and has outcomes measures. |
Intensive Care Unit Physician Staffing (IPS) |
Covenant HealthCare participates in the Keystone ICU project with MHA and John Hopkins. This includes improving the culture of safety, daily goals, intensivist rounding daily, ventilator care and prevention of pneumonia, prevention of blood stream infections, palliative care, etc. Covenant has been recognized for the accomplishments as part of this project. |
Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis |
HFMEA is utilized as a tool for safety, patient safety, and 6 sigma teams. |
General Comments on Patient Safety Activities |
Situation-Backround-Assessment-Recommendation (SBAR) communication with physicians.
RAPID Response Team
Code Blue Team
Medication Reconciliation
Non-Punitive reporting of errors
Safety specialist specific to perinatal
Keystone ICU
Telemetry Team
Safe Transport/Transfer Team
Fall Team
Standardization of defibrillators
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