Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Initiatives

• Streamline the Pre-Operative Process
  Read about Gifford's efforts to streamline patients' pre-operative processes to improve patient care and hospital efficiency.

• Transitions in care
  Gifford strives to understand why patients are "re-admitted" to the hospital, the barriers to successfully transitioning home following a hospital stay and what the medical center can do to reduce unneccessary re-admissions.

• MDRO infection prevention
  Gifford worked collaboratively with area long-term care facilities to reduce the transmission of multi-drug resistant organisms and the infections causes by those organisms.