After a process that included visits to 16 facilities within the Sun Country Health Region from September 28 to October 3, the SCHR was awarded accreditation from Accreditation Canada, a non-profit, independent organization that provides national and international health care organizations with an external peer review process. The purpose of the external peer review is to assess and recommend improvements to patient services and clients, based on standards of excellence.
Sun Country's care and practice policies met 95.3 percent of national standards used to measure the ability of health care organizations within Canada 鈥渢o provide high-quality, safe and effectively-managed health care,鈥� according to a recent SCHR media release.
The region was judged on areas including: leadership, governance, medication management standards, and infection prevention and control. Programs provided to populations with chronic conditions, child and youth populations, maternal/child populations, senior populations, and public health services were also evaluated.
Services were also assessed in SCHR's operating rooms, primary health care, surgical care, emergency departments, home care, long-term care, medicine, rehabilitation, emergency medical services, community-based mental health and addictions, obstetrics, inpatient mental health, and reprocessing.
Accreditation Canada surveyors also noted that the LEAN management system provides a way of delivering quality care and services to a target population and the mechanism for engaging front line staff in creating positive change. They stated that this direction works well for SCHR and the region is encouraged to continue to provide education about LEAN to staff members.
鈥淲e are very pleased with the results and will work diligently with staff to complete the few remaining standards in the required time frame,鈥� said Marga Cugnet, SCHR's president and CEO.
