MOSSEL BAY NEWS - Life Bay View Hospital in Mossel Bay, one of 63 hospitals in the Life Healthcare (LHC) group, proudly boasts of winning six of the Life Achiever Awards that were handed out at the recent prestigious group awards ceremony.
Life Bay View was nominated for seven of the twelve award categories for which its qualified, and bagged six of the seven awards.
The hospital was nominated firstly for the Quality and Clinical Excellence Award: AMS.
This antimicrobial stewardship programme focuses mainly on critical strategies to prevent the spread of infection and the monitoring of the occurrence of pathogenic resistance.
Also important is the appropriate use of antimicrobial agents to eradicate pathogens.
The hospital was also nominated for the Cardiac Excellence award for the AMI Cathlab.
As part of the clinical excellence strategy, LHC has adopted international best practices and systems to assure every hospitalised patient suffering from Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) receives the right care, at the right time, every time.
The third category the hospital was nominated for was the Finance and Admin team of the year.
The finance team is responsible for ensuring all financial governance and group controls are adhered to, which includes legal as well as group governance, and in this category Life Bay View walked away as the winner.
The fourth category was the Patient Services team, and Life Bay View's team, responsible for managing the financial risks of the hospital with regards to patient accounts and case management with specific group targets which must be met, once again won the award.
Patient experience was previously key when Life Bay View scored in the top 20 of the Discovery Health customer satisfaction index.
This time round, the hospital had to prove it is a world-class provider of quality healthcare, living up to the LHC benchmark of clinical best practices against international best practice, and again it won the Quality and Clinical Excellence Award: Patient Experience.
At the core of the quality management system is the objective to balance "Clinical Excellence" with "Patient Experience", explains hospital spokesperson Elzaan Moelich.
The Jakes Gerwel Service Hero Award was won by Hanrico Mostert-Fourie, a registered nurse at the hospital, for his efforts at the time of the Knysna fires.
The young man worked without a break and right through the night for days on end to assist and nurse victims of the fires.
He was rewarded for his passion for people.
Life Bay View is proud to say it has clinched all of the above awards, and it was a fist time ever this number of awards was awarded to one hospital in the group since the Achiever Awards were introduced.
The only category the hospital entered in but did not win, was Hospital of the Year. Life Roseacres in Germiston won this.
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