ACPE honors Mich. hospital for patient safety excellence
Helen DeVos Children's Hospital receives first Leape Ahead Award
Topics: Safety, Quality, Performance Improvement, Outcomes, Process Improvement, Efficiency
February 22, 2012
The American College of Physician Executives (ACPE) has honored Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Helen DeVos Children's Hospital with the first annual Leape Ahead Award, which recognizes patient safety excellence among medical schools and teaching hospitals.
ACPE created the award to honor organizations that foster innovative initiatives that improve safety and quality. The award was named for Lucian Leape, a well-known patient safety advocate who heads the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation.
ACPE officials say they selected Helen DeVos Children's Hospital—which is part of Spectrum Health—because the facility has made substantial patient safety improvements across the past four years. The hospital's effort includes safety behavior education training for staff, a streamlined coding system for safety events, and integration and collaboration between risk management and clinical staff.
Since the inauguration of the program, the hospital has slashed serious safety events and catheter-association blood stream infections. In addition, Helen DeVos has maintained a hand hygiene compliance rate above 95% for more than two years and has not had a medication error lead to a serious event since 2008.
Helen DeVos has "designed an excellent institutional pediatric patient safety program that has led to measurable improvement in several vital areas of patient care," says Ingram Roberts, an ACPE board member who sat on the Leape Ahead Selection Committee. "We are proud to select Helen DeVos Children's Hospital as the first recipient of this important award" (ACPE release, 2/20; McKinney, Modern Physician, 2/21 [subscription required]).
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