Awarded to hospitals that documented implementation of the Joint Commission’s Maternal Safety Standards and key practices for Hypertension and/or OB Hemorrhage per the guidance available in the MDC Patient Safety Watch section: Maternal Safety Standards checklists.
In 2024, this award goes to hospitals that either:
a. Documented their 2023 work on Hypertension by:
- Documenting completion of all of the Maternal Safety Standards for HTN/Preeclampsia under the Patient Safety Watch section in the MDC in CY 2023 (or re-affirming continued implementation of the Standards in CY 2023);
- Completing 12 months of CY 2023 chart review for the measure Timely Treatment for Severe Hypertension; and
- Achieving a Timely Treatment for Severe Hypertension rate of at least 80% (a CMQCC sustainability recommendation) for CY 2023
AND/OR
b. Documented their 2023 work on OB Hemorrhage by
- Documenting completion of all of the Maternal Safety Standards for OB Hemorrhage under the Patient Safety Watch section in the MDC in CY 2022 (or re-affirming continued implementation of the Standards in CY 2023);
- Completing 12 months of CY 2023 chart review for the measure Hemorrhage Risk Assessment; and
- Achieving a 100% “Yes” rate for the chart review question, “OB hemorrhage risk assessed and recorded in the medical record?” for CY 2023
2024
- To be announced in June 2024
2023
- Community Memorial Hospital
- Eisenhower Medical Center
- Loma Linda University Children's Hospital
- Mercy Medical Center-Redding
- Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
- Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla
- Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center