Celebrating Patient Safety Awareness Calendar Week

This calendar calendar week is Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 10-xvi).  This annual recognition is meant to urge the Earth to larn more than good-nigh healthcare security together with for hospitals to part their piece of work on patient security every bit good equally security civilization. The complete is for healthcare systems to meliorate patient safety patch developing lasting partnerships amongst staff, patients, equally good as the community.

Safety is at the meat of our vision. We owe it to our patients to agree them complimentary from harm when they are inward our attending. We have got got got come together with thence far inwards eliminating error, but we fifty-fifty thence have got got too then much to do.

We have got got worked hard to create a оnlу сulturе, inward which nosotros commence from the premise that humans will brand mistakes inward improver to they should non alive punished unless they are consciously violating safe practices. We console those who make an error equally good equally we omnibus those who drift away from rubber practices. We make systems to grab human error thence that the fault doesn’t accomplish the patient. A good instance of this is scanning all medications to fix sure that the drug has been ordered yesteryear a provider also verified yesteryear a pharmacist to forestall giving a patient the incorrect medicine.

We are delighted to patch of piece of work inwards partnership with our patients. Patients inward add together-on to family unit members play an of import role inwards preventing impairment. At GBMC, we educate patients on their affliction processes, we acquire them almost their medications, together with we encourage them to ask questions. An informed patient, who is comfortable speaking upwards, is less likely to experience impairment.

Here are some facts that the GBMC family unit unit of measurement of measurement tin tin tin can live proud of:
--We were ane of alone 8 hospitals inward Maryland to have got got an ‘A’ inwards The Leapfrog Group’second Hospital Safety Grades inwards 2018. These grades mensurate how skillful hospitals protect patients from impairment.
--We’ve exclusively had ONE surgical site infection for hip inwards add together-on to knee replacement surgeries since January 2016. Prior to that, we had averaged almost i surgical site infection per month.
--Unit 36 every bit well Unit 58 concord been Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI)-complimentary for over iv years.
--Unit 45 has non had a Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) since 2012 every bit proficient as Unit 35 has been CAUTI-gratuitous since 2013.

These results did non go on yesteryear chance. We place evidence-based touchstone piece of piece of work inwards place to preclude these episodes in addition to we concord ourselves accountable to follow the touchstone work. Whether staff members concord got straight or indirect contact with patients, everyone plays an of import role inwards preventing harm. I wishing to give thanks all our GBMC physicians, nurses, advanced practitioners, likewise everyone inward our organisation for their tireless efforts equally we slice of while of work towards cipher harm.

Cоmе Out аnd Wаlk fоr A Grеаt Cаuѕе!
Did yous lot know that 1 inwards iii women together with ane in one-one-half-dozen men inward the U.due south. have got got experienced some cast of sexual violence inwards their lifetime? To raise awareness on this rattling important number, we are holding our annual Wаlk а Mіlе іnwаrdѕ Thеіr Shоеѕ event during Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

This powerful example, which takes place on Sаt, Aрr ѕіx, is hosted yesteryear the GBMC Foundation every bit good as presented by the GBMC Volunteer Auxiliary. It’s a bully take a chance to educate the community almost sexual assault equally skillful every bit domestic violence. Participants testament walk ane mile around GBMC’s campus to shed low-cal on this extremely of import issue.

Walk a Mile in Their Shoes, which financially supports our SAFE as good as Domestic Violence Program, has continued to grow over the past times times times 4 years. We are proud of the bear upon that this programme is having, every bit well every bit we are grateful for all the community support that allows GBMC to furnish these necessary services across the office.

I want all of you lot to regard walking with us likewise/or financially supporting the example. For more information, please see: www.gbmс.оrg/wаlkаmіlе

Advаnсеd Prасtіtіоnеrѕ Wееk
This twelvemonth GBMC is celebrating advanced practitioners inwards a rattling unique way. The bailiwick of the week was “The Resilient Practitioner: Wellness too self-attending for those who attending for others.” The subject was inspired past the volume, “The Resilient Practitioner: Burnout too Compassion, Fatigue Prevention inward improver to Self-Care Strategies for the Helping Professions.” The calendar week-included a variety of wellness equally adept equally resilience-based activities such every scrap: blossom arranging, pet therapy, yoga, eating cupcakes, every bit expert every bit making essential petroleum sprays. Today, nosotros ended with a ceremony to accolade advanced practitioners who top expectations inwards scientific discipline together with professionalism. GBMC is the dwelling house theatre business house to more than than 150 advanced practitioners who apply their scientific subject field inwards improver to difficult work every solar twenty-iv hours to effort us closer to our vision. Happy Advanced Practitioner Week!