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Patient Safety

Hospital acquired infections (HAI) are a major and continuing challenge in health care facilities including hospitals. According to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, approximately 250,000 infections are acquired in hospitals each year in Canada.

At Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, we are committed to providing the best possible care to our clients and families.

We believe that publicly reporting our performance and being transparent helps us to strive for continuous improvement and strengthen our client’s confidence.

For more information public reporting in Ontario you can visit www.ontario.ca/patientsafety

What are hospital-acquired infections?

Sometimes when patients are admitted to the hospital, they can get infections during their stay at the facility. These infections are called hospital acquired infections (HAI). The most common HAI are Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci (VRE) and Clostridium Difficile (C. difficile).

What is Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital doing to improve patient safety?

Our safety program has an important focus on monitoring and ensuring best practice as it relates to infection control practices and this involves:

A screening and surveillance program that involves daily monitoring of our clients for infections

Isolating all patients with (the onset of) symptoms

Hosting on-going education sessions for staff that focus on hospital acquired infections and hand hygiene

Following recommended guidelines for environmental cleaning

Consultation between infection prevention and control practitioners and multidisciplinary team

Tracking patient safety indicators at Holland Bloorview:

Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio (HSMR)

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has made hospital standardized mortality rate (HSMR) results public for eligible adult acute care hospitals. CIHI does not calculate the rate for pediatric or rehab facilities, due to the specialized nature of the populations. As a result, Holland Bloorview does not report HSMR. To learn more about this initiative visit www.cihi.ca.

If you have any questions about the information above or about Holland Bloorview’s infection prevent and control program, please contact:

Cara Sudoma RN CIC Infection Control Practitioner/ Risk Manager
Tel: 416-425-6220, extension 6061
E-mail: csudoma (at) hollandbloorview (dot) ca *(see Note below)

*Note: Copy the above e-mail address into the To field of your e-mail message and reconstruct the e-mail address by removing the spaces and replacing the “at” and “dot” with the proper symbols (@ and .) respectively.

Last updated: March 31 2011

150 Kilgour Road, Toronto Ontario Canada M4G 1R8

Telephone: 416 425 6220 Toll Free: 800 363 2440

A teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto