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Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance is assured by the Quality Department. The department aims to improve the quality of care and patient safety in Medigo Hospital. It formulates policies and procedures to ensure the safety of patients and the quality of care.
- The hospital has a structured patient safety program and quality improvement program in place and ensures the involvement of all areas of the hospital. The department's leaders play an active role in patient safety and quality improvement with support from the top management.
- A proactive risk management plan is in place to identify the risks to the patients and corrective and preventive actions are taken to eliminate the risk.
- Internal audits are conducted to check whether the procedures are in place. The drawbacks are identified and actions are taken based on the reports.
- An extensive medication audit is conducted by the Clinical Pharmacy team to identify the errors. The errors are classified according to the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP) index for categorizing medication errors. Errors are analyzed, corrective and preventive actions are taken for errors identified.
- Safe patient care is practiced by following 70 hospital quality indicators on structures, processes, and outcomes, especially in areas of high-risk situations, and is used for further improvements to ensure the quality of care and patient safety. Some of the indicators are listed below
- Clinical outcomes through comparison to national benchmarks of care, while identifying and utilizing best practices.
- Having the world-class infrastructure and cutting edge technology utilized by highly skilled employees
- Medigo hospital has an incident management system. All the incidents are reported in the standardized incident reporting format. Near misses, adverse events, and sentinel events are identified and intensively analyzed.
- Complying with the statutory requirements
- Collecting and analyzing the patient feedback to ensure patient satisfaction
- Medigo hospital has an efficient patient complaint management system in place.
- Various committee meetings are conducted at regular intervals to monitor the process, protocols, and patient care activities while implementing new quality improvement projects in various areas of the hospital