HCA Healthcare Exceeds National Average for Patient Safety Grades
06 Dezember 2022 - 2:30PM
Business Wire
More than 80% of HCA Healthcare hospitals
earned an “A” or “B” in biannual Leapfrog Hospital Safety
Grade
HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA), one of the nation’s leading
healthcare providers, today announced that 81% of its facilities
earned an “A” or “B” in the fall 2022 Leapfrog Hospital Safety
Grade. This is 24 percentage points higher than the national
average of 57%.
Twice a year, The Leapfrog Group assigns an “A,” “B,” “C,” “D”
or “F” Safety Grade to general hospitals across the country based
on how well they protect patients from preventable medical errors,
accidents, injuries and infections. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety
Grade utilizes national patient safety measures from the Centers
for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Leapfrog
Hospital Survey to make their assessment.
“We are proud of this accomplishment and of the culture of
safety HCA Healthcare continues to foster across our organization,”
said Karla Miller, chief patient safety officer at HCA Healthcare.
“We could not have achieved this without our extraordinary
physicians, nurses and critical support staff members who dedicate
themselves to protecting each patient who walks through the doors
of an HCA Healthcare facility.”
Eighty-two HCA Healthcare hospitals earned an “A.” Rose Medical
Center in Denver, Colorado and St. David’s Medical Center in
Austin, Texas received a “Straight A” designation for achieving an
“A” grade in every update of the Hospital Safety Grade. They are
among the 22 hospitals nationwide to achieve the “Straight A”
designation since the ratings began in 2012.
HCA Healthcare has a long history of prioritizing and working to
continually improve patient safety, including:
- Establishing a Patient Safety Organization (PSO) to improve
patient safety and the quality of healthcare delivery by partnering
with colleagues at HCA Healthcare facilities to build systems,
refine processes and foster a culture of safety.
- Developing evidence-based perinatal protocols through the
company’s longstanding partnership with March of Dimes, such as
prohibiting elective delivery prior to 39 weeks to help babies have
a healthy start to life. This best practice has now been adopted
worldwide as a standard of care. HCA Healthcare has also worked to
identify and develop solutions for top perinatal safety risks
including preeclampsia, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary
embolism (PE) in C-Section deliveries, and post-partum
hemorrhage.
- Hosting the REDUCE MRSA study, with nearly 75,000 patients
across 43 HCA Healthcare hospitals, which found that using
antimicrobial soap and ointment to decolonize all ICU patients
reduced bloodstream infections by 44% and MRSA by 37%. The CDC has
since adopted this practice.
- Conducting the ABATE Infection Trial at 53 HCA Healthcare
hospitals with 330,000 patients in 194 non-ICU units, which found
an infection control technique achieved a 31% reduction in
bloodstream infections and nearly a 40% reduction in
antibiotic-resistant bacteria among non-ICU patients with central
line catheters and lumbar drains.
- Developing the Sepsis Prediction and Optimization of Therapy
(SPOT) tool, a system to help clinicians more quickly identify
patients with sepsis.
- Building upon the capabilities of SPOT technology to develop
the Next-gen Analytics for Treatment and Efficiency (NATE) platform
during the COVID-19 pandemic. NATE brings analytic insights to
assist clinicians in applying the appropriate clinical protocol for
mechanically ventilated patients. This ability helped to decrease
length of stay and increase survival in HCA Healthcare facilities
by 28%.
- Reducing HCA Healthcare’s average door-to-needle-time to 34
minutes, faster than the national standard for stroke care.
About HCA Healthcare Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is
one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services
comprising 182 hospitals and approximately 2,300 ambulatory sites
of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care
centers, and physician clinics, in 20 states and the United
Kingdom. With its founding in 1968, HCA Healthcare created a new
model for hospital care in the United States, using combined
resources to strengthen hospitals, deliver patient-focused care and
improve the practice of medicine. HCA Healthcare has conducted a
number of clinical studies, including one that demonstrated that
full-term delivery is healthier than early elective delivery of
babies and another that identified a clinical protocol that can
reduce bloodstream infections in ICU patients by 44%. HCA
Healthcare is a learning health system that uses its more than 35
million annual patient encounters to advance science, improve
patient care and save lives. Please click here to connect with HCA
Healthcare on social media.
All references to “Company,” “HCA” and “HCA
Healthcare” as used throughout this document refer to HCA
Healthcare, Inc. and its affiliates.
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