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 Members of the GRHS surgery department, shown with the Safe Account Initiative award banner: Jennie Neyers, RN, Lynette Ludowese, RN, Brian Coon, RN, Lisa Meier, ORT, Adam Myers, CST. |
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(Glencoe, Minn.) — Glencoe Regional Health Services (GRHS) has earned a fifth Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA) Patient Safety Excellence Award for its work in preventing retained objects in patients in the operating room.
Patient safety is a top priority for Glencoe Regional Health Services and other hospitals in Minnesota. Because of this, GRHS joined the SAFE ACCOUNT initiative, where Minnesota teams are working collectively to implement an extensive list of recommended actions concerning both the counting of and accounting for all items used during invasive procedures, especially in the operating room. The recommended actions are compiled in the SAFE ACCOUNT Roadmap to Preventing Retained Objects in the O.R. The MHA Patient Safety Excellence Award is given to facilities that have achieved more than 90 percent of the recommended actions.
“Hospitals that receive these awards are to be commended — the bar is set very high,” said MHA Patient Safety Vice President Tania Daniels. “Hospitals that qualify have achieved measurable and meaningful progress toward implementing best practices to drive down adverse health events.”
“The staff in our surgery department is to be commended for achieving this patient safety award,” says Jennie Neyers, RN, surgery department at GRHS. “It takes the whole team, nursing staff, surgical technologists and surgeons, to prevent retained objects during any invasive procedure.”
GRHS has received all five MHA Patient Safety Excellence Awards, including Safe from Falls, preventing patients from falling during hospital stays, Safe Skin, preventing patients from developing pressure ulcers during hospital stays, Safe Count, preventing retained objects after a patient gives birth, and Safe Site, preventing wrong-site and wrong-patient surgical procedures.
For more information about the SAFE ACCOUNT campaign and the other Patient Safety Excellence Awards, visit the Minnesota Hospital Association Website.
