Quality & Sustainability Award: Maternal Safety Standards Implementation Award

Awarded to hospitals that documented implementation of the Joint Commission’s Maternal Safety Standards and key practices for Hypertension or OB Hemorrhage per the guidance available in the MDC Patient Safety Watch section: Maternal Safety Standards checklists.

This award will be given to hospitals that either:

a. Documented their 2022 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 2022 (or re-affirming continued implementation of the Standards in CY 2022);
  • Completing 12 months of CY 2022 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 the year

OR

b. Documented their 2022 work on OB Hemorrhage by

  • Documenting completion 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 2022);
  • Completing 12 months of CY 2022 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 the year

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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