News Briefs
2009: A Noteworthy Year for Children's
From patient safety, to information technology, to lifesaving, technologically advanced care, 2009 was a year of accolades for Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.
HIMSS Analytics announced Children’s Hospital as the first children’s hospital to receive its Stage 7 Award. According to the HIMSS Analytics website, “Stage 7 health care organizations support the true sharing and use of patient data that ultimately improves process performance, quality of care, and patient safety.” HIMSS Analytics collects data from more than 5,000 U.S. hospitals as well as hospitals in Canada to provide an accurate and a current review of electronic medical record implementations.
The Leapfrog Group, a national patient safety organization, named Children’s a 2009 Leapfrog Top Hospital based on the results of The Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the only national, public comparison of hospitals on key issues including mortality rates for certain common procedures, infection rates, safety practices, and measures of efficiency. This is the second year in a row that Children’s has been named a Leapfrog Top Hospital.
KLAS, an independent health care research organization, named Children’s the leader in its use of health care information technology among children’s hospitals in the United States. This is only the third time in 12 years that KLAS has recognized a specific health care organization for the depth of adoption of electronic health records.
Children’s was one of a select group of centers worldwide to be honored with an Excellence in Life Support Award from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization, an international consortium of centers offering ECMO for support of failing organ systems in infants, children, and adults.
Patient Move Day May 2, 2009
The pace was brisk but smooth starting at 7 a.m. May 2, the day that 152 inpatients were moved from Children’s Hospital in Oakland to the new Lawrenceville campus. Completed in less than seven hours, the move involved a team of more than 275 nurses, physicians, administrators, and other staff from Children’s Hospital, as well as Emergency Medical Services personnel. More than 40 ambulances from communities in Allegheny, Beaver, and Washington counties were involved in the 2.5-mile-long trip.
The first patient departs Oakland, bound for Lawrenceville.
One young patient arrives
at Lawrenceville.
Ambulances from
throughout the region
line DeSoto Street.
