Measuring Quality and Safety

Measurement of key performance indicators is an important part of Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital's quality and safety improvement program.  All hospital programs and departments are expected to measure processes and outcomes on a regular basis.  Results are reported to the JBMH Quality Council, chaired by the President and CEO.

We are also pleased to comply with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care's initiative requiring Ontario hospitals to report results for key patient safety indicators to the public.  You will find links to our most recent patient safety indicator results immediately below.  Results will open in a graph format (.pdf) in a new window.  You may need to scroll down or resize the .pdf to see the data.  

We'll update our results as soon as new data are  available, in compliance with Ministry of Health and Long Term Care directions.  This page was last updated on August 17, 2010 with new information about the Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio and C. difficile, MRSA, VRE and Surgical Site Infection rates.

UPDATED JULY 30, 2010 - JBMH Results - Surgical Safety Checklist Compliance - April to June 2010

UPDATED AUGUST 17, 2010 - JBMH Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio - 2006/2007 to 2010/2011 (2010/2011 results are projected based on most recent 12 months)

• Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Fact Sheet on HSMR Reporting

UPDATED  AUGUST 17, 2010 - JBMH Results - C. difficile Infection Rate per 1,000 Patient Days - August 2008 to July 2010 

• Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Fact Sheet on C. difficile Infection Rate Reporting

UPDATED AUGUST 17, 2010 - JBMH Resuits for Surgical Site Infection (Preventive Antibiotic Use Before Hip/Knee Replacement Rate per 100 Cases) - March 2009 to July 2010

• Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Fact Sheet on Surgical Site Infection Reporting

UPDATED AUGUST 17, 2010 - JBMH Results - Methicillin-resistant Staph Aureus (MRSA) Bacteremia - September 2008 to July 2010

• Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Fact Sheet on MRSA Reporting

UPDATED AUGUST 17, 2010 - JBMH Results - Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) Bacteremia - September 2008 to July 2010

• Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Fact Sheet on VRE Reporting

UPDATED JULY 30, 2010 - JBMH Results - Central Line Infection Rate (Critical Care Patients) Rate per 1,000 Central Line Days - January 2009 to June 2010

• Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Fact Sheet on Central Line Infection Rate Reporting

UPDATED JULY 30, 2010 - JBMH Results for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Rate per 1,000 Ventilator Days - January 2009 to June 2010

•  Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Fact Sheet onf Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Rate Reporting

UPDATED APRIL 29, 2010 - JBMH Results for Hand Hygiene Compliance - April 2009 to March 2010 

• Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Fact Sheet on Hand Hygiene Compliance Reporting

There are a number of other websites which you can use to obtain hospital-specific performance information.  These include:

• the Ontario Hospital Association's new web-site at www.myhospitalcare.ca
• information from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care on patient safety indicators:  www.health.gov.on.ca/patient_safety/public/ps_pub.html
• information from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care on hospital wait times:  www.health.gov.on.ca/transformation/wait_times/wait_mn.html
• information from the Canadian Institute for Health Information on hospital standardized mortality ratios:   secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/dispPage.jsp