Quality & Sustainability Award: Maternal Safety Standards Implementation

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 Hypertensionand
  • 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 Assessmentand
  • Achieving a 100% “Yes” rate for the chart review question, “OB hemorrhage risk assessed and recorded in the medical record?” for CY 2023

 

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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