Hampton hospital earns several statewide Zero Harm Awards
HRMC has earned 16 Zero Harm Awards since 2019.
As other rural healthcare centers struggle to serve their communities, Hampton County's hospital continues to provide award-winning healthcare.
After notching six awards last year, Hampton Regional Medical Center (HRMC) has earned several Zero Harm Awards for 2021, becoming a regular winner of these annual statewide awards since their inception. Since 2019 along, HRMC has earned 16 Zero Harm Awards.
The awards, granted by the South Carolina Hospital Association (SCHA), recognize HRMC for its tremendous efforts in eliminating medical errors as part of the Zero Harm program.
HRMC is one of eight hospitals who were awarded the new Zero Harm Excellence Award this year, given in recognition of an elite commitment to adopting a systems-level approach to excellence and "zero harm" based on a demanding SCHA-designed points system.
This award program recognizes a hospital system's commitment to fostering a high reliability culture where zero harm and a commitment to quality are defining cornerstones to patient care and staff support.
Launched in 2014, the SCHA Zero Harm Award program celebrates hospitals who have had extended harm-free stretches in major surgical areas like knee replacements, hip replacements, colon surgery, and abdominal hysterectomy, or gone months without a Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infection (CLABSI). These awards are indicative of a culture committed to patient safety and providing highly reliable care. All of the hospital data used for these awards is also independently verified by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.
According to Dave Hamill, President and CEO of HRMC, this is a notable milestone not only for the hospital, but for its patients, both local and throughout the Lowcountry, who deserve access to the best of care.
"These Zero Harm awards reflect the safe and quality care that Hampton Regional provides. Our clinicians are dedicated to providing excellent care to our community." says Melanie Wooten, BSN, RN, Quality Assurance Coordinator at Hampton Regional.
SCHA launched their Zero Harm Awards in 2014 as an effort to recognize South Carolina hospitals that were on the forefront of preventing medical errors, which by some estimates is the third leading cause of death in the United States, with an economic impact that could reach 1 trillion dollars annually.
The awards HRMC have earned for 2021 are listed below:
- Zero Harm Excellence - continuation for CLABSI ICU
- CLABSI - ICU
- Hospital onset MRSA
- Pressure Injury
More about the Zero Harm award program
SCHA’s Zero Harm initiatives recognize the high reliability efforts that South Carolina hospitals are making every day to eliminate harm from their facilities. From creating a culture of safety on leadership teams to implementing robust process improvement efforts, Zero Harm seeks to highlight and celebrate South Carolina hospitals that are reaching for the highest levels of excellence in quality and safety across all services.
More about the Zero Harm Excellence Award
As SCHA’s Zero Harm program continues to expand and evolve, it strives to capture the high reliability efforts that South Carolina hospitals are making every day in order to eliminate harm from their facilities.
Prior to 2021, only facilities demonstrating zero harm for the maximum time frame in each clinical category were eligible for a crystal award. SCHA now recognizes health systems with an elite Zero Harm Excellence Award for adopting a systems-level approach to excellence and zero harm based on a points system that awards your active efforts to advance high reliability.
This year’s 2021 Zero Harm Excellence Award winners are listed below:
AnMed Health Cannon
AnMed Health Women’s and Children’s Hospital
Coastal Carolina Hospital
Hampton Regional Medical Center
MUSC Health Chester Medical Center
Prisma Health Greer Memorial Hospital
Shriners Hospitals for Children