Santé Manitouwadge Health is committed to providing the best and safest care to our patients. Our organization strongly supports the provincial government’s requirement to publicly report Patient Safety Indicators, as we believe it will enhance patient safety and strengthen the public’s confidence in our hospital. Public reporting of safety indicator rates is not intended for comparison purposes but rather for accountability. It ensures that all organizations are tracking rates in the same way.
Santé Manitouwadge Health is required to report 4 indicators:
The indicator rate is calculated as a rate per 1,000 patient days. The “total patient days” represents the total number of days spent in hospital for all patients in a month. For C-Difficile rate only patients over 1 year of age are counted. The indicator rate is calculated as follows: Number of new hospital-acquired cases of C. difficile in our facility ÷ Total number of patient days x 1000
Please visit the provincial website to view Santé Manitouwadge Health’s C-Difficile case rate
Please visit the provincial website to view Santé Manitouwadge Health’s hospital acquired MRSA Bacteremia case rate
Please visit the provincial website to view Santé Manitouwadge Health’s hospital acquired VRE Bacteremia case rate
Please visit the provincial website to view Santé Manitouwadge Health’s hand hygiene audit results
The single most common way of transferring health care-associated infections (HAIs) in health care settings is on the hands of health care providers. Health care providers move from patient to patient and room to room while providing care and working in the patient environment. Proper hand hygiene will protect patients and providers and will reduce the spread of infections, the associated treatment costs, reduce hospital lengths of stay, and readmissions, reduce wait times, and prevent deaths.
Ontario hospitals are required to publicly report hand hygiene compliance rates for:
- Hand hygiene before initial contact with the patient/patient’s environment for all health care providers- Hand hygiene after contact with the patient/patient’s environment for all health care providers