July 02, 2011
Swedish Covenant Hospital receives Cardinal Health Foundation grant
By Bethany Hubbard
Publications Intern
Swedish Covenant Hospital has received $34,258 in grant funding from the Cardinal Health Foundation to improve operating room safety and efficiency.
The hospital’s Surgical Services department will use the funding to significantly enhance patient safety in operating rooms by decreasing preventable events, such as surgical site infections, increasing compliance with surgical process of care measures, expanding reporting of patient safety events and near-misses and raising the overall Patient Safety Grade of the surgical services unit.
In 2011, the Cardinal Health E3 Grant Program awarded more than $1 million in grant funding to help nearly 40 health care providers in 20 states improve the excellence, effectiveness and efficiency of health care they provide to patients. For the second consecutive year, this competitive grant program specifically encouraged providers to submit funding requests for programs that seek to improve medication management or operating room safety.
