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January 2019Since 2008, Mayo Clinic Health System has offered an annual women’s health program designed to educate women on health prevention and wellness. In 2018, Mayo Clinic Health System hosted a Women’s Health and Well-Being Symposium at locations in Albert Lea, Owatonna and Red Wing.
January 2019Providers at HealthEast, part of Fairview Health Services, serve the largest Karen population in the Twin Cities. They recognized that American treatment programs for mental health and chemical dependency issues were being lost in translation and decided to do something about it.
January 2019Two programs sponsored by Sanford Health in rural southwestern Minnesota enhance the fitness and health of community members across generations.
January 2019Regions Hospital and People Incorporated, a mental health services nonprofit, are each supplying a full-time social worker to the St. Paul Police Department's new Mental Health Unit to help connect people in crisis with the care they need and significantly reduce mental health crisis-related arrests and repeat calls for service.
January 2019Mayo Clinic has helped to form the Coalition for Rochester Area Housing with a funding commitment of $4 million over 2018 and 2019. The coalition to address local housing needs is a collaboration among the Rochester Area Foundation, Olmsted County, the city of Rochester and Mayo Clinic.
January 2019Recognizing that many childhood injuries are preventable, Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare participates in community activities throughout the year that raise awareness about proactive measures parents can take to keep their children safe.
January 2019Windom Area Hospital works alongside community organizations to increase awareness of the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes and promote community resources available to both diagnosed diabetics and those at risk for developing diabetes.
January 2019CentraCare Health's Central Minnesota Child Advocacy Center serves children when there is a concern of child abuse to help preserve the dignity and spirit of the child by supporting, advocating for and educating families.
January 2019Essentia Health is reaching out to the communities it serves to help people better understand mental illnesses and help reduce the stigma felt by those who experience it. Staff at three Essentia Health hospitals across northern Minnesota are partnering with other organizations to provide educational materials, organize community events and create speakers’ bureaus.
December 2018Kara Boyko Frandson,
Pharm.D., Abbott Northwestern Hospital, accepted the quarterly Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA) Good
Catch for Patient Safety Award at a presentation on Nov. 12.
July 2018A Fairview Northland Medical Center care team member has
received the award that recognizes hospital professionals who demonstrate their
commitment to keeping patients safe by speaking up to prevent a potential
patient safety issue.
April 2018Two Phillips Eye Institute care
team members have received the award that recognizes hospital professionals who
demonstrate their commitment to keeping patients safe by speaking up to prevent
a potential patient safety issue.
February 2018A Lakeview Hospital registered nurse has received the award that recognizes hospital professionals who demonstrate their commitment to keeping patients safe by speaking up to prevent a potential patient safety issue.
January 2018Essentia Health helps community members in Northeast Minnesota access healthy food options through a variety of programs.
January 2018Fairview Health Services has offered evidence-based Mental Health First Aid training to teach community members how to help someone in a mental health crisis, just as people would learn CPR to help when someone stopped breathing.
January 2018MCHS-Springfield has formed a collaboration with the local food shelf and has
improved access to healthy food for a population that was unable to obtain it.
January 2018Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare developed the Adaptive Technology and Sports Fund to help children gain mobility by providing grants for adaptive equipment.
January 2018As part of
CRMC’s commitment to keeping kids and its community healthy, the hospital participates in a variety of programs providing basic needs to students and free food during community events.
January 2018Granite Falls Health addresses the health disparities of Greater Minnesota by implementing a community paramedic program.
January 2018More than 900
Mankato-area students receive weekend food packs through the BackPack Food
Program to reduce hunger and ensure they’re ready to learn when they get back
to school. Mayo Clinic Health System has been partnering with the program for
the past three years, donating time and dollars to support this important
initiative.
January 2018Mental
illness is just one of many focus areas supported by a grassroots health and
wellness movement through community partnerships with Essentia Health and Crow
Wing County Community Services called Crow Wing Energized.
January 2018Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital has partnered with local fire departments to help discharged patients make a safe transition from the hospital to home.
May 2017A Lakeview Hospital MRI
technologist has received the award that recognizes hospital professionals who
demonstrate their commitment to keeping patients safe by speaking up to prevent
a potential patient safety issue.
March 2017A Murray County Medical Center registered nurse has received the award that recognizes hospital professionals who demonstrate their commitment to keeping patients safe by speaking up to prevent a potential patient safety issue.
March 2017Since 2006, Hennepin County Medical Center’s Clinical Laboratory and Radiology departments have taken part in an annual “See, Test and Treat” event held at NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center in Minneapolis. The three-day See, Test and Treat program provides free cervical and breast cancer screening, diagnosis and follow-up for uninsured and underinsured women – all in one visit.
March 2017CentraCare Health – Long Prairie is creating community well-being and promoting healthy lifestyles. The hospital’s goal is to provide programs, services and amenities designed to support well-being through the six dimensions of wellness: occupational, physical, social, intellectual, spiritual and emotional. In collaboration with community members, regional organizations, area businesses and foundations, CentraCare Health – Long Prairie and BLEND (Better Living, Exercise, Nutrition Daily) have taken the lead role to help the nearly 24,000 residents in Todd County make the healthy choice the easy choice everywhere, every day.
March 2017In 2012-13, a formal community health needs assessment was conducted in the Thief River Falls area. Community stakeholders identified mental/behavioral health as the top priority. Seeing the need for more and enhanced services, Sanford Thief River Falls Behavioral Health Center and its community board of directors worked together on implementation strategies to address the behavioral health needs in the community.
March 2017As an organization focused on community health, reaching out to employers is one way for Winona Health to increase awareness of issues that impact people’s health and well-being. A significant portion of many people’s day is spent in the workplace. What happens at work can ultimately play an important part in protecting and improving health and well-being.
March 2017Neighborhood Health Connection, a community grant program developed by Allina Health, aims to improve the health of communities through social connections, healthy eating and physical activity. Activities must include a series of at least six events, all for the same group of adults or families.
March 2017HealthEast conducted its second community health needs assessment in FY 2015, including Ramsey, Dakota and Washington counties. Mental health was identified as a priority health concern by all stakeholder groups for the HealthEast assessment and in assessments completed by the three local public health departments. HealthEast took a multifaceted approach in responding to this need, improving access to mental health services through expanded inpatient and emergency department services, as well as community-led, culturally appropriate programs with community partners.
March 2017Our nation’s opioid epidemic has been well reported. In 2014, the most recent year on record, more people died from drug overdoses in any previous year, and more than six out of 10 of those deaths involved an opioid. Since 1999, the rate of overdose deaths involving opioids has nearly quadrupled.
March 2017New mothers and mothers-to-be have a chance to visit with other women and receive expert breastfeeding support every week through Baby Café. Mayo Clinic Health System in Cannon Falls and Lake City, along with the Goodhue Wabasha Pierce County Breastfeeding Coalition, launched Baby Café in 2015 in Lake City and in 2016 in Cannon Falls.
March 2017In recent years, FirstLight Health System has taken a particular interest in helping kids in Mora, Pine City, Hinckley and Ogilvie become healthier. FirstLight introduced this concept through a community wellness program called WellnessFirst, which has been inspiring kids to become healthier by teaching them healthy habits including good nutrition and physical activity.
August 2016A Park Nicollet Methodist
Hospital environmental services professional has received the award that
recognizes hospital professionals who demonstrate their commitment to keeping
patients safe by speaking up to prevent a potential patient safety issue.
June 2016Megan Rodger, a Bethesda Hospital registered nurse has received the Minnesota Hospital Association's Good Catch for Patient Safety Award. The award recognizes
hospital professionals who demonstrate their commitment to keeping patients
safe by speaking up to prevent a potential patient safety issue.
February 2016Through the Somali Health Literacy Project, Mayo Clinic Health System is building strong relationships and trust while supporting community health and wellness. The purpose of the project is to improve health literacy in Somali families; provide the Somali community with a better understanding of wellness and health; and create meaningful connections leading to affordable, accessible family medical care.
February 2016Allina Health's Change to Chill, a free online resource, is a community health improvement initiative designed to help teens stress less and live a more balanced life.
February 2016Presented by Sanford Health,
fit (
www.sanfordfit.org) is an effective and engaging system of resources developed to provide a community service that captivates children’s excitement, arms them with knowledge they need to make healthy choices, then activates them to make a habit of healthy choices.
February 2016Regions Hospital in Saint Paul has made it a priority to both serve veterans and meet the demand for treating mental illness in the community.
February 2016Saint Elizabeth's Medical Center has identified four priority areas of prevention and wellness, senior health, mental health and oral health and is working to meet local health needs and support community wellness.
February 2016Fairview Health's Youth Grief Services program offers a full range of grief support programming for children and the adults who love them.
February 2016CentraCare's BLEND program is a central Minnesota collaborative made up of businesses, schools, health care organizations and families working to reverse childhood obesity. It focuses on promoting healthy eating and physical activity through improvements in policies, systems and environments.
February 2016HealthEast community paramedics support mental health care transitions by helping mental health patients readjust to their home environment, manage their medications and get follow-up care after they are discharged from St. Joseph's Hospital's inpatient mental health unit.
February 2016Hennepin County Medical Center's Mother-Baby Program combines outpatient psychiatry services; a HopeLine triage and resource line; and a Day Hospital for pregnant women and mothers experiencing depression, anxiety or other emotional distress to offer support, hope and healing to mothers and families.
February 2016The ReYou Wellness Program at Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar is striving to bridge the barrier between Willmar's diverse populations and the concept of community wellness.
January 2016An Abbott
Northwestern Hospital certified registered nurse anesthetist has received the award
that recognizes hospital professionals who demonstrate
their commitment to keeping patients safe
by speaking up to prevent a potential patient safety issue.
November 2015A Fairview Northland
Medical Center staff member has received the award that recognizes hospital
professionals who demonstrate their commitment to keeping patients safe by
“speaking up” to prevent a potential patient safety issue.
September 2015A CHI St Joseph’s
Health staff member has been named winner of an award that recognizes hospital
professionals who
demonstrate their
commitment to keeping patients safe
by “speaking up” to prevent a potential patient safety issue.
March 2015Mayo Clinic Rochester Hospital,
St. Marys Campus registered nurse Sara Lorenz was honored with the Good Catch
for Patient Safety Award on March 10, 2015 for her demonstrated commitment to
keep patients safe and for fostering a culture of safety at the hospital
January 2015The Make It OK (
www.makeitok.org) campaign, funded by the Regions Hospital Foundation, has brought together individuals and organizations from across the community to fight the stigma associated with mental illness, but the campaign has had no more active or passionate a member than Goodhue County in southern Minnesota.
January 2015Hospitals have long known that preventing falls within the hospital walls is critical to ensuring safe patient care. More recently, hospitals have looked outside the hospital to the greater community, where injury and death from falls are a serious issue. HealthEast Care System has started a broad-based falls prevention initiative that harnesses its existing and diverse neighborhood relationships. A Matter of Balance is helping at-risk individuals reduce their chance of falling and create a happier, healthier, safer lifestyle.
January 2015Learning to run and loving it — that is what happened this fall in Crosby when nearly 200 area youth were introduced to the sport of Cross Country running through Ranger Run, a five-week youth running series.
January 2015In an effort to prevent the need for 9-1-1 emergency calls and unnecessary hospital readmissions, Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital developed a pilot program that provides a visit from a firefighter to a patient’s home within 24 hours after they have left the hospital.
January 2015Winona Health’s Community Care Network has been transforming the care experience for both clients and staff. In partnership with Winona State University, Winona Health developed curriculum to train health coaches to work with community members who have a high incidence of emergency department visits and/or hospitalizations due to chronic health issues.
January 2015Allina Health's Backyard Initiative goes beyond medical care to improve health by empowering residents to strengthen their own health. Grounded in a simple premise – that active community and cultural connections are a cornerstone of good health – the Backyard Initiative is a partnership between Allina Health and its neighbors in South Minneapolis. Since 2008, the Backyard Initiative has supported residents and helped them draw upon their own knowledge, skills and cultural values to care for themselves, their families and their neighbors.
October 2014Ensuring that health care workers are safe and prepared to treat Ebola patients is a top priority for Minnesota hospitals. Minnesota health systems and hospitals are doing everything they can to train and prepare in the midst of a rapidly changing public health situation.
February 2014Through its annual community health needs assessment, HealthEast Care System identified diabetes prevention as a community health imperative and the HealthEast Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) was launched in fiscal year 2013 to expand the disease-specific prevention work that has been supported by the organization.
February 2014After the loss of a loved one, children and adolescents can sometimes become the forgotten grievers. Fortunately, Youth Grief Services, a community outreach program of Fairview Health Services, is committed to changing that. Youth Grief Services (YGS) offers support groups and education for families rocked by profound loss. It was founded in 1999 in response to an identified community need to support grieving children and families in the Twin Cities area.
February 2014Hennepin County Medical Center’s (HCMC) Pediatric and Nutrition Departments continue their five year commitment to patient and family centered care through Taking Steps Together (TST): Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyle Program. Over the past five years TST has served over 450 HCMC patients and family members. TST offers community-based, culturally appropriate, bilingual programming for patients and family to work together to develop strategies for healthful decisions at home.
February 2014Mille Lacs Health System (MLHS) in central Minnesota knew that its diverse patient population struggled with depression, stress, diabetes and lack of physical activity.
Based on Dr. Deepak Chopra’s idea that it takes 21 days to change any type of behavior, MLHS decided to break up the 2012 Community Wellness program into two parts, using that theme and created the 21 Days of Wellness.
February 2014Ridgeview Medical Center understands that patients often face challenges finding transportation to and from appointments. That’s why the hospital funds WeCAB (Community Area Busing) transportation service, a volunteer-based nonprofit organization that provides low-cost transport service to area residents.
February 2014At Allina Health, serving the health needs of its communities extends beyond the walls of its hospitals and clinics. Allina partners with its communities on initiatives that improve health and prevent illness. Through community engagement programs, the health system engages more than 3.8 million people through dozens of community health education efforts each year.
February 2014Fairview Health Services provides influenza vaccinations at no charge to underserved children and adults through a community-based collaboration that began in 2006. Fairview’s Minnesota Immunization Networking Initiative (MINI) is a national model for partnering with ethnic and faith communities to help immunize people.
February 2014Nationally, sudden cardiac arrests claim 300,000 people annually. Barely 5 percent survive an event. Immediate, fast, efficient CPR can double or even triple the chances of surviving a sudden cardiac arrest. A Northfield Hospital Emergency Medical Services (EMS) initiative called Northfield Area Heart Safe Project wants to tilt the odds by educating community members of all ages on the signs and symptoms of stroke, heart attack and sudden cardiac arrest and provide the skills and confidence to act quickly in an emergency.
February 2014Sanford Jackson Medical Center encourages and supports children and adults to stay active by sponsoring the Tri for Health, an annual triathlon that takes place at the end of June. It’s a fun event for kids and adults of every skill level; an active lifestyle is all one needs to complete all levels of this triathlon.
February 2014In RiverView Health’s continuing commitment to community health and wellness, it hit the mark last fall when a free Tai Chi Easy class was introduced to the general public. The class proved so popular, it’s still going strong a year later.
January 2014Pressure ulcers are one of the most reported adverse health events.
The injuries they cause to skin and underlying tissue are painful and
can lead to infection or other complication for patients. The adverse
health event reporting system has helped identify previously unknown
risks for pressure ulcers, and it appears hospitals are making solid
progress in preventing pressure ulcers. In particular, in the
2012-13 reporting, Bethesda Hospital,
part of HealthEast Care System in St. Paul; as well as Hennepin County
Medical Center and the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview,
both in Minneapolis made significant progress in
reducing the number of reportable pressure ulcers.
January 2014In 2011, Fairview Southdale began participating in the statewide effort
to expand safety practices, such as site marking and the Time Out
process (a pause by the procedure team prior to the start of a procedure
to ensure the correct patient is receiving the correct procedure at the
correct site) outside of the operating room, which included applying
the best practices for patients receiving regional nerve blocks. In early 2013, a plan was implemented to educate the anesthesiologists utilizing an SBAR approach. These efforts have helped Fairview Southdale achieve 360 days without a reportable wrong site regional nerve block.
January 2014At the foundation of successful patient safety and quality
improvement effort is a culture of patient safety within the hospital or
surgical center. A strong safety culture can help minimize medical
errors and strong support from leadership is crucial to truly moving the
needle on patient safety and quality. Dr. Mark Migliori, chair of the perioperative safety committee
at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, part of Allina Health,
believes a culture of safety is a prerequisite for delivering good care
for every patient, every procedure, every time.
January 2014The Adverse Health Event reporting system has helped identify a specific
population that is at a very high risk for injury if they sustain a
fall. Due to increasing medical complexities in an aging population,
falls resulting in serious injury or death continue to challenge
hospitals and evidence shows falls are increasing across the community.
In the past year it has been identified that 90 percent of fall deaths
in Minnesota hospitals occur in patients who are either over age 85 or
are on medications known as anticoagulants.
December 2013FirstLight Health System sought to implement a nurse-driven protocol to
remove catheters when no longer necessary and engage staff to ensure
they were removed in a timely manner, in an effort to reduce health
care-associated infections.
December 2013Windom Area Hospital has worked methodically to provide the highest
quality care to its patients as it endeavors to reduce avoidable
readmissions. In fact, hospital staff are so committed to improving care
coordination that they include readmissions metrics on their
organization-wide scorecard. Thus far, Windom Area Hospital has reduced their avoidable readmissions
rate from 0.85 in 2009 to multiple quarters in 2012 at or near zero.
December 2013Allina Health delivers more than 14,000 infants annually. While only a
small percentage of these births result in complications, Allina Health
recognized that in cases of shoulder dystocia (when an infant’s
shoulders get stuck behind the mother’s pubic bone) the hospital was
seeing a greater need for infant resuscitation and long-term care of the
infant, as well as injuries to the mother. Allina Health set goals to improve measures to greatly reduce the incidence of infant resuscitation occurring at their hospitals.
December 2013In reviewing its data on falls, Fairview Southdale Hospital discovered
that 50 percent of falls were happening while the patient was using the
bathroom. After implementing a staff policy to stay within arm's reach of a patient, Fairview Southdale Hospital saw an immediate reduction in falls.
December 2013Redwood Area Hospital is a 25-bed city owned critical access hospital in
southwest Minnesota. When challenged with the work of the hospital
engagement network, the hospital seized the opportunity to evaluate its
current processes and implement new processes to reduce adverse events. Realizing front-line staff is critical to safety improvement efforts,
the hospital uses the principles of Transforming Care at the Bedside
(TCAB) to reduce harm across the board.
November 2013According to the
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, falls are the most common
adverse event in hospitals. Making falls prevention a top priority, Minnesota
hospitals are working to significantly reduce falls and injuries that occur as
a result of a fall.
October 2013For hospitals, providing high
quality, safe, patient-centered care is paramount. According to the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), studies show that providing patient-centered
care has a positive impact on patient satisfaction, length of stay and cost per
case. Across Minnesota, hospitals are
engaging patients and their families as essential partners in efforts to
continually improve the quality and safety of care in our hospitals.
July 2013Health care professionals are committed to providing the highest quality, safest care possible to patients. Yet it is this deep-seated commitment to caring for others that often leads health care workers to endure violent or aggressive behavior from patients as simply “part of the job.” This reluctance to speak up or report incidents puts employees at risk as well as patients and visitors.
June 2013 Delivering safe, high quality patient care is at the core of what Ortonville Area Health Services strives to achieve. Situated on Minnesota’s western border with South Dakota, Ortonville Area Health Services is a critical access hospital with 25 beds. Yet the hospital doesn’t let its limited resources impact its commitment to patient safety.
March 2013Katie Goehner was born to take care of hospitals’ smallest patients. After all, Goehner was a 2-pound baby born prematurely at Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital and spent time in its neonatal intensive care unit. Even her kindergarten folder says she wanted to grow up to be a “baby nurse.” Her own early start at life helped shape her passion for her career as a registered nurse.
March 2013
Being discharged from the hospital can be a confusing and overwhelming time for a patient. They may have new medications to take, new nutritional needs, follow-up appointments, and information to learn about their health condition. Comprehensive discharge planning, one of five key areas known to reduce avoidable readmissions, can help prepare patients to return home and prevent readmission down the road. At St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth, a discharge advocate is helping prepare patients well before it’s time to leave the hospital.
January 2013Patients in the hospital are at risk of developing pressure ulcers, or
bedsores, if their skin is exposed to long periods of unrelieved
pressure. And for patients who are immobile, the risk is especially
high. The injuries to the skin and underlying tissue are painful and
increase risk for infection or other complications. Because of the
critical thinking of staff at St. Cloud Hospital, a patient who spent 23
days in the hospital with severely limited mobility was able to avoid
developing pressure ulcers.
January 2013In 2011, close to 40 percent of all wrong site surgeries/procedures in
Minnesota were related to wrong implants, and the most common wrong site
procedures in the state involved intraocular lens (IOL) implants often
used in cataract surgery. The potential for confusion with IOL implants
is high due to variation in the number and types of lenses available for
implant combined with varied patient needs. Yet Phillips Eye Institute
in Minneapolis, part of Allina Health, has implemented a verification
process that has essentially eliminated incorrect placement of IOL
implants.
January 2013Easing the transition to home is one of the five key areas known to reduce avoidable readmissions and is critical to ensuring that patients spend more nights at home in their own beds. Among the challenges patients face are multiple medications, uncertainty about follow-up care, and coordination with multiple providers, all while trying to recover from an illness or procedure.
December 2012by Steven Mulder, M.D., president and CEO, Hutchinson Health
Dr. Mulder shares his experiences practicing family medicine in a rural Minnesota community back when the health care culture was more of a punitive one. He compares today's Just Culture model, which looks at issues of risk and error from the perspective of shared accountability for patient safety and risk reduction.
November 2012Managing medications can be a cumbersome process for patients, especially those with multiple chronic conditions or who are managing numerous medications. Understanding dosage, side effects and how medications interact with one another can be confusing.
October 2012Minnesota hospitals are important
members of the community. Not only do they provide high quality care to any
patient who needs it, but the commitment of hospitals also extends to their
communities through outreach and wellness programs and economic promotion and
support.
October 2012Minnesota hospitals are in a position to serve as models of health and wellness for the
communities they serve and are supporting the charge to develop a culture of
health in communities across the state. Many are starting by making wellness a
priority for employees.
September 2012A few small changes, initiated by nurses, have helped improve patient satisfaction, nurse satisfaction and patient safety at Hutchison Area Health Care. The staff in the medical-surgical unit teamed up with MHA through the Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) initiative to achieve a feat in patient safety: 300 days without a patient fall.
August 2012Despite a 16-percent reduction in falls from 2008 to 2009, Park Nicollet
Methodist Hospital still wasn‘t satisfied. Digging into the data and
getting the bedside nurses involved proved to be the keys to success.
August 2012Maria Perry had just brewed her morning coffee on Thursday, March 24,
when her right arm began shaking violently as she lifted the pot. She
had steadied herself enough to put the pot back on the counter when her
right leg suddenly collapsed.
August 2012Vicki Haugen, R.N., MPH,
CWOCN, OCN, the wound, ostomy, and continence nurse at Fairview
Southdale Hospital in Edina works on an
effort that
began in 2009
to determine why patients
were continuing to develop
pressure ulcers,
or bed sores, during their hospital
stay. Prevention
methods such as special mattresses that distribute weight
more evenly were still not
eliminating all occurrences
of the painful skin wounds.
August 2012For Essentia Health - St. Mary’s Medical Center nurse Diane
Westling and surgical technologist Andi Schmaltz, their actions that led to
MHA’s Catch of the Year Award were just part of the job. The two were
recognized in front of their peers at MHA’s annual awards event for their
outstanding efforts to ensure patient safety.
August 2012Lance Hallett usually works on a computer, designing
high-speed packaging equipment used to bag pet food, sugar and seed corn. But on
a hot day in July 2011, he was at a job site in Renville installing
equipment when
he stepped backward onto a stray section of two-inch vacuum tubing and fell
hard to the cement floor.
July 2012Regions Hospital, which already has one of the lowest mortality rates for sepsis in the nation, is implementing a new rapid intervention program to further increase the number of lives saved. Sepsis is a serious infection that can, within a few hours or even minutes, become life-threatening.
May 2012In May, students from Glencoe-Silver Lake High School’s health care
careers class experienced a mock surgery at Glencoe Regional Health Services
(GRHS). To start, GRHS staff members discussed the importance of
infection control practices with the students. Students then applied this
knowledge by washing their hands and dressing in surgical attire, donning
gowns, masks, hats and booties.
May 2012It's a problem throughout the country that Regions Hospitals has been on a mission to eliminate within its facility: Central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI's). These infections occur in people who have a narrow long catheter, or central line, inserted in a large vein so that the tip lies near the heart.