100 hospitals with low infections, complications, readmissions, and great patient satisfaction and value.
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Recognizing Healthcare Excellence®
100 SafeCare Hospitals is truly disruptive to the healthcare status quo as hospitals that performed poorly on these evidence-based metrics receive a financial penalty from the CMS.
100 SafeCare Hospitals®
Excellence in Leadership
Excellence in Leadership
“At Methodist Hospital of Southern California, our highest priority is to provide the safest care and best possible outcomes for all of our patients. We take great pride in being named to The SafeCare Group’s list of 100 SafeCare Hospitals for patient safety, quality and efficiency for four consecutive years. Such recognition validates the collaboration of our physicians, nurses and management to ensure safe, high quality patient care at every point of contact,”
- Dan F. Ausman, President & CEO, Methodist Hospital of Southern California
- Dan F. Ausman, President & CEO, Methodist Hospital of Southern California
“To achieve the 100 SafeCare Hospitals distinction is a huge honor, however, not surprising as it mirrors what our team works to achieve every single day at Unity Health. The safety of our patients is paramount and this achievement reflects the fact that we are one of the safest hospitals in the state of Arkansas and even in the country.”
- Ray Montgomery, MBA, FACHE, President & CEO, Unity Health
- Ray Montgomery, MBA, FACHE, President & CEO, Unity Health
100 SafeCare Hospitals®
Catalyst for Change
Catalyst for Change
Excerpt of interview, SafeCare Magazine, Sarju Bharucha, JD, Editor-in-Chief, 3rd Quarter 2016
Sarju Bharucha, JD: In all your years working in patient safety, what has surprised you most?
Yisrael Safeek, MD, MBA: The biggest coming to mind is an inspection visit to a “world renowned” hospital when I was with The Joint Commission. When I say “world renowned” I’m referring to a top 10 rating in the nation…rated by others of course. The hospital’s leadership constantly kept reminding the inspection team of these ratings. That all sounds fine until you know that the hospital had over 250 findings after a five day inspection.
They had patient safety lapses like using concentrated heparin to flush central lines, lack of two person handoff from the blood bank, blood administration without staff present in the initial moment, pharmacy not reviewing pre-procedure orders for medications, no post-procedure retrospective review, medications drawn up and mixed in a syringe and stored for later use without the strength of the dose on the label, lack of defined processes for prompt resolution of patient grievances, just to name a few.
I can tell you of another occasion when we …the inspection team…arrived at this great Midwestern health system and was asked to go home. Days earlier ahead of Joint Commission survey, the health system was visited by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid and had over 1,000 findings. Some involved rape of a patient in a psych ward. Truly sad.
Sarju Bharucha, JD: In all your years working in patient safety, what has surprised you most?
Yisrael Safeek, MD, MBA: The biggest coming to mind is an inspection visit to a “world renowned” hospital when I was with The Joint Commission. When I say “world renowned” I’m referring to a top 10 rating in the nation…rated by others of course. The hospital’s leadership constantly kept reminding the inspection team of these ratings. That all sounds fine until you know that the hospital had over 250 findings after a five day inspection.
They had patient safety lapses like using concentrated heparin to flush central lines, lack of two person handoff from the blood bank, blood administration without staff present in the initial moment, pharmacy not reviewing pre-procedure orders for medications, no post-procedure retrospective review, medications drawn up and mixed in a syringe and stored for later use without the strength of the dose on the label, lack of defined processes for prompt resolution of patient grievances, just to name a few.
I can tell you of another occasion when we …the inspection team…arrived at this great Midwestern health system and was asked to go home. Days earlier ahead of Joint Commission survey, the health system was visited by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid and had over 1,000 findings. Some involved rape of a patient in a psych ward. Truly sad.
