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 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 100,00 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 five 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 Commission
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, Gulf Coast Hospital, Lee Memorial Hospital, HealthPark Medical Center
and Southwest FL Regional Medical Center through the June 2007 reporting period.
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