Florida Hospital Health Care Quality Brief

You expect quality healthcare when you go to the hospital. But what exactly is quality healthcare?

At Florida Hospital, we believe that we must be “transparent” when it comes to healthcare quality and that consumers have the right to know how their hospital is doing.

Each Health Care Quality Brief explains an issue and our efforts to improve it. We hope you will find them informative and useful as you hear more about these issues.

Following are links to our Health Care Quality Briefs 

• Information About MRSA (staphylococcus aureus) - July 2008 (.pdf*)
• Medicare to Implement Consumer Website - June 2007 (.pdf*)
• Hand Washing Prevents Hospital Infections - March 2007 (.pdf*)
• Patient Safety Indicator: Language Barriers- Dec. 2006 (.pdf*)
• Medication Errors - August 2006 (.pdf*)
• Creating a Culture of Safety - May 2006 (.pdf*)
• Defining Health Care Quality - January 2005 (.pdf*)
• Measuring Quality In Heart Attack Care - January 19, 2005 (.pdf*)
• Charts for Issue 2 (.pdf*)
• Quality Patient Care for "Community Acquired Pneumonia" - Issue 3 March 25, 2005 (.pdf*)
• Quality Patient Care for Surgical Infection Prevention - Issue 4 May 25, 2005 (.pdf*)

Brought to you by Florida Hospital's Government & Public Affairs Office.

For more information contact us at: 407.303.5559 or email us at: Florida Hospital Government & Public Affairs.

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