Baystate Children's Hospital Safety & Quality

Safety & Quality Data

Baystate Children’s Hospital (BCH) is always striving to keep your child as safe as possible while receiving treatment. We also aim to ensure your child’s care meets evidence-based quality standards.

Goals 

  • Improve patient outcomes
  • Keep patients safe
  • Keep children out of the hospital whenever possible
  • Fight racism and reduce health disparities
  • Promote healthy communities

Measurements

We invite you to learn more about our efforts to provide safe, high quality care at BCH. Please browse through the data below to learn about how our teams are working together to continuously improve safety and quality at BCH.

Keeping Your Child Safe

At Baystate Children's Hospital, we monitor and update our practices regularly in order to provide the safest care possible.

Areas we monitor include:

  • Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections
  • Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections
  • Unplanned Extubations
  • Adverse Drug Events
  • Falls
  • Peripheral IV Infiltrations and Extravasations
  • Serious Harm Events

Patient Safety Charts

In these charts, you will find the most recent data about patient safety at Baystate Children's Hospital along with an explanation of each chart below. We will update these charts as we have new data. For more information about these safety and quality measures, please visit the Solutions for Patient Safety website.

Copyright 2024, Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS). All rights reserved. This document was created as part of the quality assessment and peer review activities of SPS Learning Network, and the underlying information used to create this document is not subject to discovery pursuant to ORC Section 2305.25, 2305.251, 2305.252, and 2305.253. Any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this information is prohibited without the express permission of SPS.

Chart Time Frames: January 2024

Patient Quality & Safety Data

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Keeping Our Providers and Staff Safe

According to OSHA, In 2019 U.S. hospitals recorded 221,400 work-related injuries and illnesses. Protecting our team members is an important part of providing high quality and safe care to our patients.

Our staff are trained in safety protocols including:

  • Falls prevention
  • Safe patient handling
  • Violence prevention

We monitor staff safety measures including:

  • Employee Staff Safety
  • Patient Behavioral Events
  • Employee/Staff Harm Events

Staff Safety Charts

In these charts, you will find the most recent data about employee safety at Baystate Children's Hospital along with an explanation of each chart below. We will update these charts as we have new data. For more information about these safety and quality measures, please visit the Solutions for Patient Safety website.

Staff Quality & Safety Data

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© Copyright 2024, Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS). All rights reserved. This document was created as part of the quality assessment and peer review activities of SPS Learning Network, and the underlying information used to create this document is not subject to discovery pursuant to ORC Section 2305.25, 2305.251, 2305.252, and 2305.253. Any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this information is prohibited without the express permission of SPS.

Chart Time Frames: January 2024

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