Quality

Patient Safety

We are committed to making our patients’ experience with Culpeper Regional Hospital safe and service-oriented, responding to both your clinical and consumer needs. Patients are often the most important part of the team. Here are a few ways you can be involved:

Medication Reconciliation is a process of identifying the most accurate list of a patient's medications. It requires comparing a patient's existing medications with those physicians might order during admission, transfer or discharge. The key to the reconciliation process is assuring that the physician gets an accurate list of medications that you are taking. It is best to carry an accurate list with you.

Speak Up is a program, sponsored by The Joint Commission, which gives you tools to help you be the most effectively involved in your healthcare team.

Speak up if you have questions or concerns, and if you don't understand, ask again. It's your body and you have a right to know.

Pay attention to the care you are receiving. Make sure you're getting the right treatments and medications by the right healthcare professionals. Don't assume anything.

Educate yourself about your diagnosis, the medical tests you are undergoing, and your treatment plan.

Ask a trusted family member or friend to be your advocate.

Know what medications you take and why you take them. Medication errors are the most common healthcare errors.

Use a hospital, clinic, surgery center, or other type of healthcare organization that has undergone a rigorous on-site evaluation against established state-of-the-art quality and safety standards, such as that provided by Joint Commission.

Participate in all decisions about your treatment. You are the center of the healthcare team.

Leapfrog is made up of Fortune 500 companies and other large private and public organizations that provide health benefits. Representing over 36 million American healthcare consumers, its overall mission is to make reporting health care quality and outcomes a routine feature of the U.S. healthcare system. CRH is a voluntary participant in Leapfrog’s voluntary quality survey, which reports information on hospital quality and patient safety efforts.

2008 Hospital National Patient Safety Goals

The purpose of the National Patient Safety Goals is to improve patient safety. The goals focus on problems in health care safety and how to solve them. Click here to view the 2008 Hospital National Patient Safety Goals.

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