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| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM: Shelly Pauling Education & Communications Manager Redwood Area Hospital Jan Hennings, APR Director of Communications Minnesota Hospital Association 651-603-3549 DATE: July 8, 2009 RE: Redwood Area Hospital Earns Patient Safety Award Redwood Falls, MN — Redwood Area Hospital has earned a Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA) Patient Safety Excellence Award for its work in preventing retained objects such as sponges during labor and delivery. Patient safety is a top priority for Redwood Area Hospital and other Minnesota hospitals. That’s why Redwood Area Hospital joined the SAFE COUNT initiative, where Minnesota teams are working collectively to implement an extensive list of recommended actions to prevent sponges or other objects from being retained in a patient after giving birth. The recommended actions are compiled in the SAFE COUNT Roadmap to Preventing Retained Objects in Vaginal Deliveries. The MHA Patient Safety Excellence Award is given to facilities that have achieved more than 90 percent of the recommended actions. “Hospitals that receive these awards are to be commended — the bar is set very high,” said MHA Patient Safety Vice President Tania Daniels. “Hospitals that qualify have achieved measurable and meaningful progress toward implementing best practices to drive down adverse health events.” “The nursing staff and physicians have been very supportive during development and institution of the Safe Count initiative. There has not been an incident of a retained foreign object following a delivery at this hospital and now there is an added step that will help prevent it from happening in the future,” states Pam Lerdal, RN, OB Coordinator. For more information about the SAFE COUNT campaign, visit the Minnesota Hospital Association Web site at www.mnhospitals.org/index/patient1. |
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