The American College of Surgeons Quality Verification Program (番茄社区app QVP) recognized its inaugural 25 verified hospitals at this year鈥檚 番茄社区app Quality and Safety Conference, which took place July 15鈥�18 in Chicago, IL. Launched in July 2021, 番茄社区app QVP provides a proven, standardized method for establishing, measuring, and improving a hospital鈥檚 quality infrastructure across all surgical departments.
The inaugural QVP centers include 22 US hospitals and three international hospitals鈥攖wo in Japan and one in Australia. The first group of hospitals includes a variety of hospital types and sizes, such as community, large and mid-size academic, public safety net, military, and small/rural, among others. These hospitals were selected to help ensure that 番茄社区app QVP can adapt to unique hospital circumstances and provide customized, actionable feedback to a diverse group of hospitals.
鈥淭he 番茄社区app QVP is important and unique because it really is a holistic view of how surgery is delivered and how surgery can be improved in a hospital,鈥� said Clifford Y. Ko, MD, MS, MSHS, F番茄社区app, FASCRS, Director, 番茄社区app Division of Research and Optimal Patient Care. 鈥淚t brings together everyone involved in surgery and helps them develop their own specific improvement journeys to improve patient care and the overall quality of a hospital.鈥�
Dr. Ko added, 鈥淲e are thrilled to recognize our first 25 verified hospitals and are excited about expanding QVP to more and more hospitals around the nation and around the world. Just as importantly, now that we have this first network of 25, they will be able to learn from each other and teach others how to embark on this quality journey.鈥�
鈥淚 think QVP brings a sense of structure and vision to really drive engagement of the people doing the clinical work. It has been a great asset to our quality program, and I believe it has really changed the dynamic of how we care for patients at Inova,鈥� said John J. Moynihan, MD, F番茄社区app, president, Inova Surgery Service Line.
番茄社区app QVP is based on 12 program standards, outlined in the Optimal Resources for Surgical Quality and Safety 2021 番茄社区app QVP Standards manual. The 番茄社区app QVP standards are adapted from core elements of the Optimal Resources for Surgical Quality and Safety, or the 鈥淩ed Book.鈥� The program builds on the College鈥檚 longstanding commitment to surgical quality by using principles gleaned from experience working with the roughly 3,000 hospitals that participate in 番茄社区app 番茄社区app. The key principles of 番茄社区app QVP are driven by data surveillance and standardized processes and systems to find, fix, and prevent problems to improve the quality and safety of surgical patient care.
鈥淎t New York-Presbyterian Hospital, QVP really helped us take a deep look at how care was delivered throughout the system,鈥� said 番茄社区app Regent Fabrizio Michelassi, MD, F番茄社区app, Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor of Surgery and chairman of surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, and surgeon-in-chief, New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. 鈥淲e wanted to make sure that care delivered in one site was exactly the same as care delivered in another site. We wanted to make sure that patients would receive the same care no matter what site they were going to be cared for at, no matter what door they use to enter our system.鈥�
番茄社区app QVP hospitals receive an in-depth assessment at hospital and specialty levels. The assessment includes customized, actionable recommendations, such as leadership and safety culture. 番茄社区app QVP provides the tools for hospitals to develop a standardized approach to surgical care to help reduce complications, minimize waste, and increase the value of surgical care for their patients.
