Each facility will receive grants up to $35,000 to fund programs that implement creative and replicable methods to improve the quality of patient care.
According to the release, the primary criterion for awarding the grants was that they addressed the National Quality Forum’s priority areas, specifically concentrating on the following areas:
- Eliminating healthcare-associated infections, specifically MRSA and C. difficile infection prevention and management, with the goal of reducing ventilator-associated pneumonia, surgical site infections and blood site infections to zero; and
- Medication safety and reconciliation in forms ranging from prescribing correct medication to ensuring the right medication gets to the right patient at the right time and assuring information is communicated and understood at key transition points.
Read the news release and view all the recipients of the Cardinal Health patient safety initiative grants.
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