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Recent efforts in the quality and patient safety arena earned us
local and national recognition. Here is a sample of a few of our
accomplishments. We hope you find this information helpful. - For
the third consecutive year, Stony Brook University Hospital has
been recognized as one of the nation’s "Most Wired" hospitals, according
to the results of the 2011 Most Wired Survey released in the July issue
of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine.
- Named
as one of America’s Most Beautiful Hospitals for 2011, ranking third in
a list of 50 healthcare facilities around the country by Soliant
Health.
- 2011 Outstanding Leadership Award
for Achievements in Eliminating Central Line Associated Bloodstream
Infections from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office
of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Office of Healthcare Quality and
the Critical Care Societies Collaborative
- 2011
National Association of Public Hospitals (NAPH) Safety Net Patient
Safety Award recipient for submission that described Stony Brook University Hospital's efforts to
decrease severe sepsis mortality.
- Ranked
10th in the New York metropolitan area in U.S. News & World
Report’s “Best Hospitals” Metro Area rankings for 2010-2011.
- Received
“Special Recognition” by the Healthcare Association of New York State
(HANYS). Stony Brook’s “Standardization to Prevent Venous
Thromboembolism” process was described and lessons learned were detailed
in the HANYS publication, “2010 Profiles in Quality and Patient
Safety.”
- Poster receives top award at National Association of
Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) conference. Stony
Brook Children’s Hospital presented a poster detailing the Hospital’s
initiative to decrease central line associated blood stream infections
at the NACHRI Creating Connections Conference. The poster titled
“Central Venous Catheter Infections in Pediatric Oncology: An
Educational Strategy to Minimize Rates and Embed Practice Change”
demonstrated an 84 percent reduction in central line infections since
baseline surveillance was begun in 2008.
- NAPH
released a Research Brief on its collaboration with the National
Patient Safety Foundation and Kaiser Community Benefit Fund to bring
patient safety education and training initiatives to members through The Patient Safety Initiative at America’s Public Hospitals. Stony Brook University Hospital
was featured in this report due to the Patient Safety Fridays program
deployed last year. NAPH CEO Bruce Siegel commended us on this
challenging but crucial patient safety project we committed to
implementing, which institutionalized our safety activities. The process
will be continued through 2011, aimed at improving the safety culture
of our institution through leadership participation and engagement of
frontline staff.
- American
Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The
Guidelines® (GWTG) Stroke Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award.
To receive the award, Stony Brook University Hospital achieved 85 percent or higher adherence to
all GWTG-Stroke Performance Achievement indicators for 24 consecutive
months and achieved Plus level by reaching 75 percent or higher
compliance with 6 of 10 GWTG-Stroke Quality Measures.
- Honorable
Mentions for the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council’s 2010 Excellence in
Patient Safety Award for “Fostering Organization-Wide Use of Failure
Mode and Effect Analyses” and “Standardization to Prevent Venous
Thromboembolism.”
- “Patient Safety Friday (PSF) a 24/7 State of Mind - An Innovative Approach to Foster Patient Safety in the Hospital Setting,” poster ranked at the American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) Conference.
- Consumer
Choice Award for 2010-2011 from the National Research Corporation
(NCR). The award honors Stony Brook as the highest rated hospital in the
New York, Newark, NJ, and Edison, PA, metropolitan statistical areas in
the areas for Best Doctors, Best Nurses, Best Overall Quality, and Best
Overall Image/Reputation.
- LIVESTRONG® Community Impact Project Award recipient. SBUMC is the first medical center in New York State to secure the award.
- Carol
M. Baldwin Breast Care Center has been designated a Breast Imaging
Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology (ACR).
- Kidney
Transplant Program receives a bronze medal from the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services in recognition of the work done to increase
the capacity of the transplant center to perform kidney transplants.
- Designated
a Gold Level Start! Fit-Friendly Company, which is recognition by the
American Heart Association for championing the health of our employees
and creating an environment of supporting physical activity in the
workplace.
- Stony Brook University Hospital is the only hospital in New
York to formally partner with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
on reducing its carbon footprint through the EPA’s Green Memorandum of
Understanding.
- Gastroenterology was named to the U.S. News & World Report’s 2010-11 Best Hospitals (August 2010 issue).
- Recognized
as the best performing hospital on Long Island by the Niagara Health
Quality Coalition in its eighth annual report card published May 31,
2010, scoring best in more areas than any other Island hospital,
including heart attack and congestive heart failure rates.
- Awarded
a Partner for Change with Distinction Award from Practice Greenhealth,
which recognizes healthcare facilities that have achieved improvement in
their mercury elimination, waste reduction, and pollution prevention
programs beyond the Partner for Change basic criteria.
- Cleverley + Associates recognized SBUH with a 2010 Community Value Leadership Award 100 and Five-Star Hospital in the State of the Hospital Industry 2010 Edition.
The Community Value Index (CVI®) provides a measure of the value a
hospital provides the community, and is composed of 10 measures of a
hospital’s performance in the areas of financial viability and plant
investment, hospital cost structure, hospital charge structure, and
quality performance.
- Assemblyman Robert K. Sweeney presented a
2010 NYS Proclamation in recognition of continuous prostate cancer
screening efforts in Suffolk County.
- Stony Brook University Hospital received an Organ Donor Bronze Medal of Honor from the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services in recognition of the Medical Center’s
achievement of an 83 percent conversion rate for the period of October
2008 through March 2010.
- The Stony Brook
University Hospital Auxiliary was honored with a Distinguished Service
Award from the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) for its
years of dedicated and ongoing service to the community.
- Aetna designated SBUMC a Center of Excellence for its Kidney Transplant Program.
- Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) effort to improve assessment rates and outcomes was
ranked in the top ten percent of all applications submitted to the
Hospital Association of New York State (HANYS) for the Pinnacle Award
for Quality and Patient Safety.
- Stony Brook University Hospital becomes a Mentor Hospital
for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) for quality
initiatives related to Rapid Response Teams, Surgical Safety Checklist,
and treatment of acute myocardial infarction patients, and continues to
function as an IHI Mentor Hospital for Daily Goal Sheets and Central
Line Infections.
- A poster titled “Decreasing
Central Venous Catheter Infections in Pediatric Oncology Patients,” that
depicted the successful efforts of the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Team was awarded second prize at the American Pediatric Surgical Nurses
Association Conference. The association requested that a summary of the
initiative be presented at their 2011 conference.
- The
electrophysiology (EP) team were recognized by Hansen Medical for
completing their 30th arrhythmia treatment procedure using the Sensei®
Robotics Platform. Over the past 14 months, the SBUMC Electrophysiology
Program has performed the largest number of flexible robotic procedures
in New York, and has become a top user in the tri-state area.
We are interested in your feedback and questions. Please send email to: sbuh_Quality@notes.cc.sunysb.edu to let us know if this is helpful, or if you need something you can't find here.
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