SUMMARY OF LEAPFROG SAFE PRACTICES

(based on data submitted 6/29/06)

Baystate Medical Center fully satisfies all safety practices recommended by the National Quality Forum, including:

• Create a healthcare culture of safety.
• Adhere to protocols:
  • Nurse staffing ratios
  • To prevent mislabeling of imaging studies
  • To prevent wrong-site, wrong-procedure, wrong-patient procedures
  • To prevent surgical site infections
• Read back of verbal orders.
• Use only standardized abbreviations and dose designations.
• Ask patient or surrogate to recount informed consent discussion.
• Display preferences for life-sustaining treatments prominently in chart.
• Perform evidence-based evaluations:
  • To prevent pressure ulcers
  • To prevent deep vein thrombosis
  • To assess aspiration risk
  • To assess risk of malnutrition
• Perform rigorous hand decontamination.
• Provide influenza vaccinations for healthcare workers.
• Standardize methods for labeling, packaging and storing medications.