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.

• 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.
  

• 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. 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.

Get the results

View our Quality and Safety Indicator Dashboard Our dashboard provides the most recent results for all of our indicators	Learn more about hospital acquired infections Information on the infections we monitor (C. difficile, MRSA, VRE); our current infection rates; and Rouge Valley's infection control practices	Learn more about hand hygiene compliance Information on hand hygiene; Rouge Valley's compliance rates for the four key moments for hand hygiene; and details on what we are doing to ensure good practices.
Learn more about Safer Health Care Now! interventions Information on the three SHN interventions Rouge Valley is implementing (SSI, CLI-BSI, VAP); our most current results for these indicators; and how we are improving them over time	Learn more about the hospital standardized mortality ratio Details on what is HSMR, how it's calculated and how we have reduced mortality rates at Rouge Valley over the last year