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Our current Teams, Goals, and Results
Falls reduction team
Goal: Reduce Falls
Falling is one of the most common incidents to create additional complications for patients during their hospital stays. About 25% of these falls result in injury, which increases patient care costs and creates a longer hospital stay for the patient. (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
Infection reduction team
Goal: Reduce infection rates (Sepsis)
Each year, at least 1.7 million adults in the United States develop sepsis, with 1 in 3 patients dying from the infection. (CDC) Sepsis is the most expensive condition treated in U.S. hospitals, costing billions each year in prolonged hospital stays and treatment therapies. (NIGMS)
Imaging efficiency team
Goal: Imaging efficiency
It is important to remember procedures such as CT Scans, MRI, fluoroscopy, and nuclear medicine imaging pose risks as well as benefits. Imaging exams can expose patients to radiation, unwarranted stress, risks, and high costs. (FDA)
Patient Experience Team
Goal: Great Patient Experiences
At Athens-Limestone Hospital, we are committed to providing exceptional care to all of our patients. Each year, we set organizational goals to improve our overall patient experience. For FY2019, we set several goals related to our Press Ganey HCAHPS (patient experience) scores:
- Inpatient: Hospital 9-10 >/=70% or 2% improvement from baseline
- Outpatient: Overall rating of care >/= 80% or 2% improvement from baseline
- Emergency Dept: Overall rating of care >/=60% or 2% improvement from baseline
- Ambulatory Surgery: Overall rating of care >/=80% or 2% improvement from baseline
- Responsiveness: Achieve 70% on Responsiveness of Hospital staff
As a way to recognize individual units, we will be displaying the attached Patient Experience Awards each month to those departments who achieve a score of at least 75% in the Overall Rating (9-10) or Overall rating of care on the survey received for the previous month.
Patient Experience Results by month and department
December 2018
- ODA-87%
- Emergency Department-61%
- 3 East-76%
- 3 West-100%
- Mother/Baby Unit-100%
- Radiology-91%
- Respiratory Therapy-75%
- Sleep Center-100%
- Wound Center-100%
January 2019
- ICU-100%
- Mother/Baby-100%
- Wound Clinic-100%
- ODA-94%
- Lab-85%
- Radiology-84%
- 3 East-76%
- Emergency Department-65%
February 2019
- MBU – 100%
- Sleep Center – 100%
- ODA – 90%
- Radiology – 89%
- Lab – 82%
- 3 East – 81%
- ED – 76%
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2 East
Patient experience score of 76% for January
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3 East
Patient experience score of 76% for December and 76% for January
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3 East - 2
Patient experience score of 76% for December and 76% for January
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3 West
Patient experience score of 100% for December
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ER Day
Patient experience score of 61% for December
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ER Night
Patient experience score of 61% for December
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ICU
Patient experience score of 100% for January
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Lab
Patient experience score of 85% for January
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Mother Baby
Patient experience score of 100% for December and 100% January
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ODA
Patient experience score of 87% for December and 94% for January
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Radiology
Patient experience score of 91% for December and 84% for January
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Respiratory
Patient experience score of 75% for December
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Sleep Center
Patient experience score of 100% for December
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Wound Care
Patient experience score of 100% for December and 100% for January
