Ensuring patient safety is a fundamental element of high quality healthcare. At Niagara Health, providing safe, quality healthcare to our patients is not only a top priority, but a value that we uphold every day.
The safety of our patients is associated with and linked to every healthcare priority and every activity we do. We are continually working to improve our care and implement innovative safety initiatives each year.
Click on the links below to learn more about our Quality & Safety Indicators.
Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI) - July 2022
Central Line - Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLI) - March 2022
Hand Hygiene Compliance - March 2022
Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) - June 2022
Surgical Site Infections (SSI) - 2022
Surgical Safety Checklist (SSCL) - June 2022
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) - 2022
Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus (VRE) - June 2022
Your Health System: Hospital Specific Indicators
You can find more information on cataract surgery, MRI and CT, joint replacement surgery and Emergency and Urgent Care wait times at www.hqontario.ca/
Niagara Health has been publicly reporting for several years on a number of key indicators or criteria that measure our performance.
As part of our ongoing patient safety and quality program we continuously track and monitor our performance which helps to identify areas of strength and areas that could benefit from improvements. As part of our review process, we use a number of benchmarks and evidence-based patient safety indicators that assist us in measuring the quality and safety of the care we provide. Some of these indicators are established and reported provincially and publicly while others are developed internally and used by specific programs or departments to initiate changes that will result in improvements.
These indicators are all standardized provincially and/or nationally as defined by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the Canadian Institute for Health Information and Accreditation Canada.
In addition to reporting on Hospital Standardized Mortality Rates, this section profiles Infection Control rates (C. difficile, VRE, MRSA), Patient Satisfaction ratings from the most recent provincial Hospital Report Card and Wait Times (ER, surgeries, MRI, CT, etc).
The Health Quality Ontario has collected similar data from hospitals across Ontario. This information is available at Health Quality Ontario.
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