The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Doctor José Molina Orosa University Hospital has been awarded quality certificates for its involvement in the Bacteremia Zero and Resistance Zero projects, to improve patient safety.
Both projects are promoted by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), with the collaboration of the Spanish Society of Intensive, Critical and Coronary Units Medicine (SEMICYUC) and the Spanish Society of Intensive Care Nursing and Coronary Units (SEEIUC).
These recognitions endorse the compliance by the multidisciplinary team of the ICU of Molina Orosa with the recommendations and good practices established in these programs, whose objective is to reduce the incidence of infections in critical patients and improve the quality of care and safety of patients in Intensive Care units.
Professionals' commitment
Since its launch in 2009, these projects require the commitment and active involvement of all professionals in the unit, who apply strict protocols to prevent infections related to the use of central catheters, especially monitoring those caused by multiresistant bacteria.
The Bacteremia Zero and Resistance Zero projects in which the Molina Orosa Hospital participates are part of the Critical Patient Safety Program, an initiative aimed at reinforcing safety and minimizing the risks of patients admitted to intensive care units.
Zero Tolerance
The quality distinctions granted by the Ministry and the two scientific societies involved are obtained after evaluating the activity of the ICU and its results in the last two years and certify compliance with the recommendations and safety and quality standards for the development of each of the projects.
The objective of the Bacteremia Zero program is to reduce the rate of Bacteremias related to catheter to less than four episodes per thousand days. The Molina Orosa Hospital has achieved a rate of 1.66 below the national average, which stands at 2.22.
Regarding the Resistance Zero certificate, the objective is to apply a package of measures in hospitalized patients to avoid the development of colonization or infection by multiresistant bacteria (MRB) or, where appropriate, to carry out an early diagnosis of the same to avoid its transmission within the service. The results obtained by the Lanzarote hospital center show a decrease in infections that are acquired within the ICU by this type of germ by more than twenty percent, as established by the project.
The manager of Health Services of Lanzarote, Pablo Eguia, is pleased with this distinction of national character, and emphasizes that the certificates obtained, with a temporary validity of four years, represent recognition of the daily work of each and every one of the professionals of the Intensive Care unit of the Molina Orosa Hospital and their effort to offer the best care to all patients.