{"id":41533,"date":"2016-11-02T12:04:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T16:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=41533"},"modified":"2016-11-02T12:04:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T16:04:51","slug":"lehigh-regional-response-to-safety-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/11\/lehigh-regional-response-to-safety-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Regional Response To Safety Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Gary Bell, CEO Lehigh Regional Medical Center<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_41534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41534\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41534\" title=\"Gary-Bell-CEO[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Gary-Bell-CEO1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"182\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Bell &#8211; CEO<\/figcaption><\/figure>The data used by Leapfrog in determining this grade mostly dates back to a time when Lehigh Regional Medical Center was financially struggling under previous ownership. Lehigh Regional Medical Center has instituted several measures to address the issues identified in Leapfrog\u2019s report, including implementing a robust Electronic Medical Record system with EPIC and completing a culture of safety survey. \u00a0Several areas have improved since the data was reported, including hospital acquired conditions, complications and patient safety indicators. Now, under the new ownership of Prime Healthcare, Lehigh Regional will have the resources to achieve an entirely new level of intense focus on patient quality and safety. Prime Healthcare brings extensive resources to Lehigh Regional that the hospital just didn\u2019t have before, including the sharing of best practices with other Prime hospitals nationally. Prime also has a stringent internal quality reporting matrix and each hospital is held accountable to those standards. Achieving an A rating is what we strive for. It&#8217;s what all patients deserve. We are confident that Lehigh Regional will show marked improvement in Leapfrog\u2019s next report cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Gary Bell, CEO Lehigh Regional Medical Center The data used by Leapfrog in determining this grade mostly dates back to a time when Lehigh Regional Medical Center was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}