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Commitment to Quality
Quality
patient care and rigorous attention to patient safety are
hallmarks of Lee Memorial Health System (LMHS)
LMHS
Quality goes beyond Reported Standards to Change Lives
Our commitment
to quality led LMHS to become one of the earliest members of the
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). This leading quality
improvement organization is identifying best practices based on
measurable outcomes to ensure that the right treatment is given
to the right patient every time. The focus has been on inpatient
safety improvements.
Through IHI,
the 100,000 Lives Campaign was created and successfully
implemented to document the lives that have been saved by using
evidence-based methods and procedures of care. New techniques
have been applied to situations including rapid emergency
response teams, protecting patients from developing pneumonia
when using a ventilator to help them breathe, and protecting
surgical sites and central intravenous lines from infection.
LMHS not only adopted these life-saving quality care methods,
but also continues to serve as a Mentor Hospital sharing our
success with others nationally.
The latest IHI
campaign is to protect 5 million lives by preventing potentially
harmful medical incidents over the next two years, through
continued use of best practices for patient care. LMHS is also
participating in the IHI collaborative "Transforming Medical
Surgical Care at the Bedside" along with more than 25 other
hospitals across the country. The redesign of medical surgical
care is now a standard for three (3) units at Lee Memorial
Hospital and early outcomes are very positive. This IHI quality
work is the cutting edge, state-of-the-art effort for
healthcare. To learn more about IHI, click:
www.ihi.org.
LMHS
Quality is Recognized Nationally through Numerous Awards
Each of our
four hospitals has achieved Solucient's 100 Top Hospitals
ranking overall and for various categories of high quality
clinical care including Heart and Vascular, Orthopedics, Stroke
and Intensive Care. We have also been ranked among the top
hospitals for our culture of performance improvement. These
rankings are based on reported measures compared against other
hospital peers nationally. This is an extraordinary
accomplishment, considering that there are nearly 5,000
hospitals nationally. Please click here to view the numerous
awards that LMHS has received.
LMHS
rankings on Quality Standards
Because we
believe that people can make better decisions about their health
care if they have accurate information, we have made a
commitment to reporting publicly how Lee Memorial Health System
ranks on a range of quality standards and benchmarks.
In this
section of the Lee Memorial Health System web site, we provide
accurate, up-to-date, comprehensive data on our performance in
key areas and, when possible, comparisons to other medical
centers, nationally, statewide, and locally.
Current
quality improvement initiatives at Lee Memorial Health System
include:
Participation
in the
National Hospital Quality Alliance: Learn
about treatments that are known to get the best results for
adult patients with heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia.
Participation
with the Joint Commissions on Accreditation of Healthcare
Organizations (TJC) National Patient Safety Goals: Learn
about these Patient Safety Goals, and how they have been adopted
to improve hospital patient safety.
Participation
with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs): Learn about safety
measures that help hospitals identify accidents, complications
or other medical mishaps before they occur.
This web site
contains information on the most commonly reported quality
measures. We suggest that you use this information when speaking
with your doctor or other qualified health care provider to help
you, your family and your friends make an informed health care
decision for your specific circumstances.
We are
committed to continually improving the quality of health care
that we provide to our patients.
Thank you for
your interest in Lee Memorial Health System.
Please
note: These Lee Memorial Health System Quality web pages
currently include public use data for Cape Coral Hospital, Lee Memorial Hospital,
Gulf Coast Medical Center and HealthPark Medical Center for the
January 2008 through the December 2008
reporting period.
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