Mater Hospital Brisbane (formerly Mater Adult Hospital) is committed to delivering the highest standard of care, and SafeQuest is our way of demonstrating that commitment. Through our many patient safety and quality improvement initiatives we are focused on improving patient experiences and outcomes. We measure our safety and quality performance across a range of categories and believe it is important to share our performance with the community.
Mater’s emergency department strives at all times to assess and care for patients based on their clinical need and within the recommended national guidelines. Mater has a dedicated project team working in the emergency departments of Mater Hospital Brisbane (formerly Mater Adult Hospital) which is focused on improving the time patients wait to be assessed and treated. Patients are assigned a triage category of 1 to 5 reflecting the outcome of their initial assessment. This scale is used across all emergency departments in Australia.
Hand hygiene is a vitally important practice for healthcare workers and has a significant impact on reducing the spread of infections in hospitals; these are often called health care associated or acquired infections. Hand hygiene is a different way of thinking about safety and patient care and involves everyone working together, including patients, visitors and health care workers. Hand hygiene is a key program for Mater and we have invested many resources to improve patient and health care worker safety through improved hand hygiene within our hospitals.
At Mater, we have designed a program to help prevent patients from falling. All adult patients across Mater are assessed for their risk of falling on admission and each day they are in hospital. This allows us to ensure we can monitor patients more closely and use strategies to assist patients with their mobility and transfer when they are at increased risk of falls.
Mater hospitals are committed to ensuring patients who require medication receive the right medications at the right time. With around three million medications administered to patients annually when they are in our hospitals, Mater has a continuous focus on eliminating errors in medication prescription, dispensing, administration and patient monitoring.
Through our innovative Medication Safety Program, Mater has been able to focus on key aspects that contribute to ensuring the safety of patients receiving medications. We strive to continuously improve our performance using measures that are benchmarked across other Australian hospitals.
Pressure injuries can occur when patients spend long periods of time in one position, either in bed or in a chair. Commonly referred to as 'Bed Sores', Mater has developed multiple strategies to care for patients at risk of developing pressure injuries in the aim of preventing them. Mater has a very strong commitment to eliminate pressure injuries which may be acquired by patients when they are in our care. Patients across Mater are assessed for their risk of developing pressure injuries on admission and each day they are in hospital so that we can monitor closely those patients who are at increased risk of developing a pressure injury.
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