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Kemptville District Hospital
2675 Concession Road, Kemptville, ON K0G 1J0
Tel: (613) 258-6133 Fax: (613) 258-7853
Public Reporting of Patient Safety Indicators
Infection control rates may vary from month to month. The smaller the facility, the greater the rates will vary. This is because a change in even one case in a small facility will cause the rate to go up and down considerably.
Clostridium Difficile Reporting (C-Diff): The C. Diff Infection rate is calculated as a rate per 1,000 patient days. The "total patient days" represents the sum of the number of days during which services were provided to all inpatients during the given time period.
Method of Calculation: The rate is calculated as follows:
Number of new hospital acquired cases of C. Diff in our facility x 1000
Total number of patient days (for one month)
Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA): A case is a patient identified with a laboratory confirmed bloodstream infection with methicillin resistant staphyloccus aureus (MRSA). A blood stream infection is a single positive blood culture for MRSA.
Hospital Acquired MRSA: The infection is not present on admission (ie: onset of symptoms<72 hours after admission) or the infection was present at the time of admission but was related to a previous admission to the same facility within the last 72 hours.
Method of Calculation: The rate is calculated as a rate per 1000 patient days.
The calculation of the MRSA bacteremia infection rate for the reporting period (on a quarterly basis) is:
Number of new hospital acquired cases of MRSA in our facility x 1000
Total number of patient days
Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus (VRE): A case is a patient identified with laboratoy confirmed bloodstream infection with vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE bacteremia). A blood stream infection is a single positive blood culture for VRE.
Hospital acquired VRE: The infection was present on admission (ie onset of symptoms <72 hours after admission) or the infection was present at the time of admission but was related to a previous admission to the same facility in the last 72 hours.
Method of Calculation: The rate is calculated as a rate per 1000 patient days.
The calculation of the VRE bacteremia infection rate for the reporting period ( on a quarterly basis) is:
Number of new hospital acquired cases of VRE in our facility x 1000
Total number of patient days
| C.Difficile (C.Diff) Public Reporting: | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2011 | Feb 2011 | March 2011 | April 2011 | May 2011 | June 2011 | July 2011 | |
| Number of new cases of C-Diff | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Clostridium Difficile Rate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2011 | Sep 2011 | Oct 2011 | Nov 2011 | Dec 2011 | Jan 2012 | Feb 2012 | |
| Number of new cases of C-Diff | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Clostridium Difficile Rate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mar 2012 | Apr 2012 | Jun 2012 | Jul 2012 | Aug 2012 | Sep 2012 | Oct 2012 | |
| Number of new cases of C-Diff | |||||||
| Clostridium Difficile Rate | |||||||
| MRSA Public Reporting: | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan-Mar 2011 | April-June 2011 | July-Sept 2011 | Oct-Dec 2011 | ||||||||
| Number of new cases of MRSA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| MRSA Rate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Jan-Mar 2012 | April-June 2012 | July-Sept 2012 | Oct-Dec 2012 | ||||||||
| Number of new cases of MRSA | |||||||||||
| MRSA Rate | |||||||||||
| Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus (VRE) public reporting: | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan-Mar 2011 | April-June 2011 | July-Sept 2011 | Oct-Dec 2011 | ||||||||
| Number of new cases of VRE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| VRE Rate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Jan-Mar 2012 | April-June 2012 | July-Sept 2012 | Oct-Dec 2012 | ||||||||
| Number of new cases of VRE | |||||||||||
| VRE Rate | |||||||||||
Hand Hygiene Compliance Rate
Hand hygiene is known to significantly reduce the spread of infections in hospitals. Effective hand hygiene practices by health care practitioners improves patient and worker safety and helps prevent the spread of hospital-acquired infections. Our health care workers do practice effective hand hygiene; the provincial audit ensures that they are washing their hands at the right time and in the right fashion.
| 2009-2010 | 2010-2011 | 2011-2012 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand Hygiene Before Initial Patient/Patient Environment Contact | 78.92% | 77% | |
| Hand Hygiene After Initial Patient/Patient Environment Contact | 84.18% | 84% |
For more information on Public Reporting of Patient Safety Indicators, please go to OHA (Ontario Hospital's Association) website: http://www.oha.com/

