Southern Tennessee Regional Health System-Pulaski Named Duke LifePoint Quality Affiliate
December 14 2017 - 12:21PM
Business Wire
Hospital recognized for achievements in
patient and family engagement, quality care and patient
safety
Southern Tennessee Regional Health System-Pulaski
(STRHS-Pulaski) today announced that it has been named a Duke
LifePoint Quality Affiliate. This designation recognizes hospitals
within the LifePoint Health system that have enrolled in the
LifePoint National Quality Program and succeeded in transforming
their culture of safety and achieving high standards of quality
care, performance improvement and patient engagement.
“Quality comes first at our hospital, and earning this esteemed
designation is further proof of our commitment to providing the
best healthcare – and experience – for every person who walks
through our doors,” said Jim Edmondson, chief executive officer of
STRHS-Pulaski. “I am so proud of our team for working incredibly
hard to reach this important milestone in our quality journey, and
we are excited to continue improving the work we do to care for our
patients during their greatest times of need.”
STRHS-Pulaski is a 95-bed facility serving people in Pulaski,
Tennessee, and surrounding areas. To achieve Duke LifePoint Quality
Affiliate designation, the STRHS-Pulaski team implemented a number
of best practices and launched new initiatives to engage patients
and families, enhance patient safety and improve quality care.
For example, the hospital team practiced the “Foundational Five”
Safety Behaviors, which include conducting daily briefs, debriefs
and huddles, using learning boards and introducing executive
patient safety rounding. Executive patient safety rounding helps
ensure that leaders at every level of the organization engage with
staff, physicians, patients, and families about quality and patient
safety. The hospital also implemented bedside shift reporting to
help ensure clear communication, reduce the risk of errors and
maintain consistency of care during shift changes. Bedside shift
reporting is an effective method for transferring information from
one provider to another, while also involving patients in
discussions about their health, progress and treatment plan.
Additionally, the team successfully reduced the number of patient
readmissions to the hospital within 30 days of discharge by more
than 30 percent, and established a Patient and Family Advisory
Council to help further improve the patient experience at the
hospital.
“The STRHS-Pulaski team has gone above and beyond to meet the
requirements of the LifePoint National Quality Program, and we are
delighted to officially recognize this facility as a Duke LifePoint
Quality Affiliate,” said David Dill, president and chief operating
officer of LifePoint Health. “The hospital takes its role in
providing quality care close to home for the Pulaski community
seriously, and achieving this designation is one more way it is
directly advancing our mission of Making Communities
Healthier.”
The LifePoint National Quality Program was created through a
collaboration between LifePoint Health and Duke University Health
System. When hospitals enroll in the program, they begin working
with Duke and LifePoint quality coaches to evaluate and strengthen
their quality programs and processes. Following an initial
evaluation, the hospital creates a plan and begins to deploy
changes that will help it achieve quality improvement benchmarks
and establish long-term solutions to sustain its results.
In addition to evaluating common quality care and patient safety
metrics, the LifePoint National Quality Program focuses on
foundational elements required to sustain quality care, including
committed leadership, systems to ensure continuous performance and
process improvement, and a culture dedicated to safety. Duke
LifePoint Quality Affiliate designation denotes those hospitals
that achieve a broad range of criteria in each of these areas and
demonstrate a capacity to continuously measure and improve quality
and patient safety.
About Southern Tennessee Regional Health System
Part of LifePoint Health, Southern Tennessee Regional Health
System (STRHS) is a regional network of hospitals and healthcare
services serving the healthcare needs of communities in the
southern Tennessee region with facilities in Winchester, Sewanee,
Pulaski and Lawrenceburg. The system has 382 licensed beds,
more than 300 affiliated physicians, 1,250 employees, and serves
more than 160,000 people in rural communities in the
region. STRHS-Pulaski is a 95-bed acute care facility with
more than 300 employees and was recently ranked 8th nationally on
Modern Healthcare’s list of Best Places to Work in Healthcare. For
more information, visit http://southerntennessee.com.
About LifePoint Health
LifePoint Health (NASDAQ: LPNT) is a leading healthcare company
dedicated to Making Communities Healthier®. Through its
subsidiaries, it provides quality inpatient, outpatient and
post-acute services close to home. LifePoint owns and operates
community hospitals, regional health systems, physician practices,
outpatient centers, and post-acute facilities in 22 states. It is
the sole community healthcare provider in the majority of the
non-urban communities it serves. More information about the company
can be found at www.LifePointHealth.net.
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