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Safety program

......Hospital has formulated a safety program to monitor the degree to which the risk of an intervention/procedure or any unsafe contact in the care environment are reduced for a patient, visitors and health care providers/ employees.

 

Objective of the program

The main objective of the safety program is to monitor and prevent the effect of adverse events on the patients.

 

Scope of the program

Any event that causes an inconvenience to the patient/patient party/employees is covered under this program. ......Hospital maintains Incidence Book to record any adverse events like but not limited to needle prick injury, fall, wrong medication, medication errors such as wrong route, wrong time etc. are noted down with details like date, time of occurrence, type of event & corrective and preventive measures taken. Utmost care is taken so that accidents do not occur, but in rare occurrences, where the harm is minimum or nil to serious incidents, all are discussed and resolved by the team.

Composition of the safety team-

The team comprises the Medical Director, Consultant, Administrator, other Staff. As of date following are the safety team members

a)  DR. 

b)  MR. 

c)  MR. 

d)  Miss. 

e)  Miss. 

 

Responsibilities of Safety Committee:

To take a periodical safety round and see for any violations or situations wherein the safety may be compromised. The safety round elaborates all the points and hence they are not detailed here. The safety round is done with the Administrator.

 

Frequency of meeting:

The team meets once in 6 months or as required to discuss if any issues were noticed / reported with respect to the events mentioned. The team also takes periodical safety and facility rounds and notes the discrepancies, if any, in the round book. In case any incidents are present, the action is taken and recorded. The minutes of meeting are recorded in the Minutes Book

Sentinel events:

According to the definition, a sentinel event is : “an unexpected incident, related to system or process deficiencies, which leads to death or major and enduring loss of function for a recipient of health care services. Major and enduring loss of function refers to sensory, motor, physiological or psychological impairment not present at the time services were sought or begun. The impairment lasts for a minimum period of two weeks and is not related to an underlying condition”.

All staff should be proactive when any of the above kinds of problems occur in the hospital premises. The escape routes should be informed to the patients and staff should guide them to their safety.

The facilities inside the organization should be utilized as an immediate, initial help. Assistance from civil authorities like Fire, Police, Ambulance services, etc. should be taken to prevent further damage to human life.

The hospital has identified community disasters that can result in an inundation of casualties.  The hospital is equipped to provide basic first aid and treat the problems. For further management of the medication/ treatment, the patients are sent to other hospitals. The patient is accompanied by a doctor to the other hospital.