Hôpital Général Juif - Pavillon K

[monctezuma]

Merci MTLskyline pour avoir retrouvé le fil de jesseps, je l'ai fusionné à celui-ci.

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[Philippe]

Oubliez le Marriot ou n'importe quel autre projet en ville. En terme de profondeur, le trou creusé pour ce projet est de loin le plus impressionnant en ville. La grue devrait apparaitre dans les prochaines semaines car l'excavation semble terminé.

[brainiac]

Looks like I'll be heading over to see this hole for myself!

[monctezuma]

Looks like I'll be heading over to see this hole for myself!

 

Bring a camera, please !

[brainiac]

Went for a bike ride this morning in the crazy humidity and swung by the site. Pretty sure the Altitude is deeper, but Pavilion K will occupy a very large area. Looks like 3.5 - 4 stories deep.

 

Hard to get a proper shot with so much activity. Probably easier to to scope out the perimeter on the weekend. For now:

 

June 8, 2011

 

[jesseps]

Looks like its about 60 ft.

[Philippe]

Le socle de la grue semble installé

[jesseps]

Few Quebec hospitals reveal their patient safety data even though such information is supposed to be open to the public by law.

 

The Jewish General Hospital in Montreal has become the first Quebec health institution to launch a website where it plans to disclose statistics about its patient safety and quality of care.

 

So far, the website has information in three areas known as quality indicators: patient safety surveys, ventilator-associated pneumonia and the rate of compliance with the surgical safety checklist.

 

The information, presented as graphs, contains no details on infection, accidents or medical errors.

 

Hospital officials say the website, which went live Wednesday, is a work in progress, and more data will be rolled out in the coming months.

 

The hospital is seeking to improve public accountability with better transparency and improved patient access to data, executive director Dr. Hartley Stern told The Gazette on Thursday.

 

Patients have a right to know about a hospital's performance and safety record, Stern said.

 

Hospitals, however, rarely admit mistakes.

 

Adopted in 2002, the law - Bill 113 - that requires hospitals to identify, track and make public their medical errors, incidents and near misses in the interest of patient safety is not being enforced.

 

In November 2010, The Gazette, unable to find a record of medical errors online or obtain such records from Montreal hospitals, filed an access-to-information request with the McGill University Health Centre's Royal Victoria Hospital and with the Montreal Jewish General Hospital. One request was denied and is under appeal. The other remains unanswered.

 

Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital was the first Montreal-area hospital to divulge its detailed accident reports in response to The Gazette's request. Hospital officials said their no-blame strategy hugely improved their "patient safety culture."

 

Stern said he could not comment on The Gazette's outstanding information request, adding the matter is in the hands of the hospital's legal department.

 

The move to release the hospital's performance statistics on the Web is in line with the goals and objectives of the Department of Health and Social Services, Stern said.

 

"This is an evolutionary process, not a fait accompli," Stern noted.

 

The information will be measured in a standardized way so that other hospitals will also be able to do the same and produce comparable data, he said.

 

The website will report on safety practices, hospital-acquired infection, incidents, accidents and medical errors in language that's "clear to the public," Stern said.

 

But if the website's data about pneumonia in patients on ventilators are any indication, the information is far from clear to the layperson - presented as a complicated ratio of cases per days spent on a ventilator.

 

Nursing director Lynne McVey, co-director of the quality program, explained that's the measurement standard of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute.

 

"In fact the Jewish General was part of a Canada-wide collaborative to share strategies on ventilator-associated pneumonia," McVey said. "So we're wanting to use the same standardized definitions of how to measure the indicators so that we can compare ourselves in this collaborative."

 

The Jewish General is hoping other hospitals follow suit in making data public - for example, on adherence to a surgical safety checklist.

 

"If they do, we will actually make surgery safer for patients," McVey said.

 

Markirit Armutlu, regional director for Canadian Patient Safety Institute, Quebec, called the move toward better transparency an excellent start. "There's interest from other hospitals," she said. "We'll wait and see."

 

(Courtesy of The Montreal Gazette)

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21 juillet