As part of our strategic plan for becoming the best at what we do, Rouge Valley Health System is focussed on continually strengthening our quality of care and ensuring patient safety. To help us manage this effort, we use a number of provincially approved performance indicators.

The quality and safety indicators used by RVHS include the following sets:

• Hospital Acquired Infection Rates: Sometimes when patients are admitted to the hospital, they can get infections—these are known as hospital acquired infections. We are working hard at providing a safe environment, including minimizing the risk of infection. We monitor infection rates for C. difficile, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE).

• Hand Hygiene Compliance Rates: Hand hygiene is an important practice for health care providers and has a significant impact on reducing the spread of infections in hospitals. This measurement tool helps to ensure that our staff are following good hand hygiene practices at the right times and in the right way.
• Surgical Safety Checklist Compliance Rates: A surgical safety checklist (SSCL) is a patient safety communication tool that is used by the operating room team to discuss important details about each surgical case. We are tracking how consistently our operating room team is using the SSCL, which helps to improve teamwork and communication, and can lead to improved patient care and safety.

• Safer Health Care Now! Interventions: These indicators are part of a national patient safety campaign targeting reductions in preventable adverse events and complications in hospital—including surgical site infection (SSI), central-line blood stream infection (CLI-BSI), and ventilator-associated pnemonia (VAP). We are monitoring these indicators and implementing strategies to help us reduce the introduction of infections to patients through surgical and clinical procedures.
  

• Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio (HSMR): This important new measure helps us to improve patient safety and quality of care. HSMR provides us with a starting point for assessing mortality rates and supports our efforts to reduce hospital deaths from adverse events.

Monitoring these indicators over time allows us to identify areas where we can make changes that can help reduce mortality, the transmission of infections and the occurrence of adverse events. This is a key part of how we continue to improve quality and patient safety across Rouge Valley.

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