National Patient Safety Goals

St. Edward Mercy assesses patient needs, its environment, national patient safety initiatives and health-system recommendations to select and develop our Patient Safety Goals. These goals are carefully implemented and monitored to ensure high outcome compliance.

Some of our patient safety goals include:

• Recognition and acknowledgement of risks to patient safety and clinical events with initiation of actions to reduce these risks
• Creating a culture of safety
• Improve the accuracy of patient identification
• Improve the effectiveness of communication among caregivers
• Improve the safety of using medications
• Improve the safety of using infusion pumps
• Reduce the risk of health-care associated infections
• Accurately and completely reconcile medications across the continuum of care
• Reduce the risk of patient harm resulting from falls
• Eliminate wrong site, wrong patient, and wrong procedure surgery
• Executive rounding on patient safety