Patient and personnel safety is critical for healthcare facilities’ proper functioning, and the committees are a profound solution to regulate hospitals’ risk reduction and security checking activities. In the long-term acute care organizations, welfare providence is administrated via several communities that contain nurses, physicians, and government representatives who meet several times a year to discuss the conditions and address the issues (Small, 2020). This paper aims to explore the Kindred Hospital Houston Northwest’s safety committee to assess their practices and efficiency.
Kindred Hospital Houston Northwest is the long-term acute care facility where the patients continuously interact with doctors and nurses. The communication and procedures reveal the issues that disrupt clients’ treatment, and the local committees exist as a channel to raise the problem and receive the solution decisions from the administration and the government (Small, 2020). In Kindred Houston Northwest, the multidisciplinary safety committee includes 18 members: advanced nursing practitioners, physicians of pulmonary, antibiotics, cardiology, and rehabilitation, staff managers, financing council, and Lynne Cameron as the main chairman. The organization meets quarterly, and each member prepares a report about welfare issues that occurred and were solved, regulations implemented, and staff’s activities dedicated to improving risk reduction. The most critical issues are being forwarded to Susan Mellott, the board member of the Healthcare Safety Advisory Committee, Texas’s main hospitals’ welfare community (Texas Department of State Health Services, 2021). This chief organization meets at least three times a year and discusses patient safety and reports from the facilities (Texas Department of State Health Services, 2021). Moreover, as a branch of Kindred Hospitals, Houston Northwest’s committee makes public notes and addresses them to the headquarters in Louisville.
Meetings in the Kindred Hospital Houston Northwest are not frequent, therefore they do not take much time from the staff’s schedule. However, their awareness of the committee’s operations motivates them to observe and report the issues they faced while working. The method addresses the goal as the members feel responsible for their hospital’s conditions and actively involve in creating safety improvement strategies beneficial for them and their patients.
References
Small, T. F. (2020). The utility of a safety committee. Home Healthcare Now, 38(6), 331-332.
Texas Department of State Health Services (2021). Healthcare Safety Advisory Committee. Web.