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Camden Clark Medical Center wins safety award

PARKERSBURG -- The Camden Clark Medical Center has won a national patient safety quality award.

Camden Clark's Vice President of Quality Cindy Kern this week accepted the Hospital Improvement Innovation Network award for patient safety, as part of a nationwide effort to reduce hospital readmissions and preventable hospital-acquired conditions across 11 areas.

The award is from Premier Inc. in conjunction with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is based on participation and performance as part of the CMS sponsored Partnership for Patients Program in 11 key areas:

* Adverse drug events (ADE), including at a minimum, opioid safety, anticoagulation safety, and glycemic management

* Central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSI), in all hospital settings, not just Intensive Care Units (ICUs)

* Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), in all hospital settings, including avoiding placement of catheters, both in the ER, and in the hospital lCentral line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSI), in all hospital settings, not just Intensive Care Units (ICUs)

* Clostridium difficile (C. diff) bacterial infection, including Antibiotic Stewardship

* Injuries from falls and immobility

* Pressure Ulcers

* Sepsis and Septic Shock

* Surgical Site Infections (SSI), to include measurement and improvement of SSI for multiple classes of surgeries

* Venous thromboembolism (VTE), including, at a minimum, all surgical settings

* Ventilator-Associated Events (VAE), to include Infection-related Ventilator-Associated Complication (IVAC) and Ventilator-Associated Condition (VAC)

* Readmissions

This is the second time in three years that CCMC has received this award having won in 2014 and in 2017.

Premier Inc. is a health care improvement company, uniting an alliance of approximately 3,750 U.S. hospitals and more than 130,000 other provider organizations.