Southcoast Health is a not-for-profit, charitable, community-based health system with multiple access points, offering an integrated continuum of health services throughout southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
At Southcoast Health, our promise to our patients and our community is “Exceptional Care from People Who Care”. When you come to Southcoast Health, you will receive the best care plus something more. We deliver an unmatched combination of clinical excellence, clinical safety, and a personal touch. Our providers, nurses, and staff chose Southcoast Health so they can bring high-quality care to the communities they call home. Some of the most advanced approaches to prevention, treatment and safety in medicine today are happening at Southcoast Health.
DRIVING DOWN PRESSURE INJURY PREVALENCE
Southcoast Health is committed to providing the highest quality care coupled with compassion to promote optimal outcomes for our patients. Wound and pressure injury prevention are top priority nurse-sensitive indicators of quality, and we strive to improve through evidence-based best practices. Our strategies range from assessing early to intervene early, communicating, and documenting well in the electronic health record, application of the Leaf patient sensor and increasing mobility. With optimal skin care products, equipment, and prevalence rounds we aim to prevent skin and tissue breakdown due to hospitalization. Our Wound team and new unit-based Skin Champions collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to promote an individualized plan of care. Southcoast Health has three Outpatient Wound Care Centers, based at each hospital—Charlton Memorial, St. Luke’s and Tobey.
DRIVING DOWN FALLS AND INJURIES
Safety during the hospital stay is an equally important goal for our care teams. We partner with our patients to reduce fall risks and injuries through evidence-based approaches. FallTIPS is a patient-centered fall prevention program including formal risk assessments and tailored plans of care for each patient. We also aim to maintain patient functional mobility through the stay and employ the Johns Hopkins AMP (Activity and Mobility Promotion) program. Our interdisciplinary fall prevention and mobility teams—including Patient Family Advisory Council (PFAC) members—meet monthly by site and quarterly at the system to review our performance data and emerging evidence-based practices to promote prevention, mobility, and recovery.
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| 07 November 2023 |
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