Santa Casa's Maternal ICU receives recognition seal for high performance
Santa Casa do Pará is part of the group of 33 public hospitals awarded the Efficient Seal, out of a total of 352 public units.
The certification was delivered this morning by representatives of the Brazilian Intensive Care Medicine Association (Amib) and Epimed Solutions - a company specialized in solutions for managing clinical and epidemiological information, to the managers of the care area and representatives of the multiprofessional team of the Adult ICU at Santa Casa do Pará.
Throughout Brazil, 800 public and private hospitals were evaluated, and Santa Casa do Pará is part of the group of 33 public hospitals awarded the Efficient Seal, out of a total of 352 public units evaluated based on data analysis regarding patient safety, resource efficiency, and quality of care for critically ill patients, which need to be entered into the Epimed system.
"We managed to start working systematically, looking at this patient who arrives at our institution, our main profile, the pregnant woman, from the moment she enters the emergency room until the final outcome with discharge. So today, with this seal, we can demonstrate that our critically ill patients who come to us leave well due to this systemic work done at the institution, by the surgical teams, gynecology teams, and the support teams every day. So, it is a result of the institutional work that Santa Casa has," emphasized intensivist doctor Nelma Machado, manager of the Adult ICU at Santa Casa.
The certification is based on annual evaluations of ICUs that use the Epimed monitoring system, and for this, reliable completion of clinical data is necessary, a practice that has also been encouraged in other intensive care units at Santa Casa, says the care director Norma Assunção.
"We have 100 ICU beds, 10 ICU units, and in all of them, we have been working to ensure that the team accurately records all our data and results within the system. So it is important for us to make our staff aware of the importance of this record, so that we can work as effectively as possible with these results and the improvements that this can bring in the future with these indicator analyses," she explains.
Based on this analysis, ICUs are certified for excellence in care and commitment to continuous improvement and the promotion of safe, sustainable, and efficient care for critically ill patients.
"It is a recognition of work that has been developed in the institution specifically within the ICU, where the team seeks to work with all the resources available and achieve significant results for our population, meeting all expectations and with a qualified team, translating into an important response as results of intensive care for critically ill patients who return to society without any complications," reinforces the care director.
For the team, the certification is the recognition of an integrated work, built over time and that includes management, multiprofessional teams, and also support professionals, as detailed by physiotherapist Reinaldo Ferreira, who coordinates the multiprofessional team at Santa Casa.
"The importance of an award like this shows how much the team has been committed to their activities. From the doctor to the janitor, everyone is included in such an award because it encompasses cleaning, organization, medication, medical prescriptions, and the evolution of each patient. So when we receive such an award, it is a recognition for all the work that has been done for a long time," says Reinaldo about an institutional process focused on excellence, which is also reiterated by the manager of the Adult ICU, Nelma Machado.
"Over the years, Santa Casa has been developing various activities at the strategic planning level, always seeking improvements, based on actions aimed at systemic approaches, listening to the Santa Casa community, bringing this to discussions with senior leadership, and from there, outlining strategies so that, in the short, medium, and long term, we can deliver to the State," she concludes.
