CH-F joins 5 Million Lives Campaign
Community Hospital-Fairfax announces that it will join The Institute for Healthcare
Improvement’s 5 Million Lives Campaign.
The 5 Million Lives Campaign was originally launched in 2006 to ask hospitals to
improve the care they provide in order to protect patients from five million incidents
of medical harm over a 24-month period.
“Providing safe, quality care has always been our goal. By participating in
this national campaign, we are assuring our patients and their families how
committed we are,” Rhonda Evans, Community Hospital-Fairfax COO, said.
IHI estimates that 15 million incidents of medical harm occur in U.S. hospitals
each year. Medical harm is defined as unintended physical injury resulting from
or contributed to by medical care that requires additional monitoring, treatment
or hospitalization, or results in death.
Community Hospital-Fairfax plans to implement and continue working on the following
interventions as part of their participation in the 5 Million Lives Campaign:
Prevent Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus
Aureus infection
by reliably implementing scientifically proven infection control practices throughout
the hospital.
Reduce harm from high-alert medication starting
with a focus on anticoagulants, sedatives, narcotics and insulin.
Get boards on board by defining and spreading new and leveraged
processes for the hospital’s Board of Directors so they can become far more effective
in accelerating the improvement of care.
“The patient and the family become part of our team to improve
healthcare safety. The campaign provides endless resources and opportunities to
learn the best practices from other rural hospitals,” Evans said.