International Quality “
The Prince Salman Center for Nephrology, represented by the Quality Department, organized yesterday the activities of the International Day of Quality for the year 2014 under the slogan“ Let us build a world of quality together. ”The events were attended by: The Center’s General Supervisor, Dr. Muhammad bin Nasser Al-Omi, and his deputy Director Quality and Head of Standards Department at the General Directorate of Health Affairs in Riyadh Dr. Hessa Al-Nafisa, and on behalf of Dr. Faisal Shaheen, Director General of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Abdul Rahman Al-Ghamdi, the financial and administrative assistant at the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, the medical staff at the center, and many participants from other medical bodies attended the center''s hall Saudi for organ transplantation.
The event included two scientific sessions, the first of which was chaired by Dr. Abdul Hamid Muhammad Othman, Head of the Quality Department and Information Center at the General Administration of Training and Scholarships at the Ministry of Health. Two lectures: the first entitled "Quality Principles", and the second on "Data Management in the Field of Health Care."
The second scientific session was presented by Dr. Wadha Al-Qahtani, Director of Quality and Performance Improvement at Prince Muhammad bin Abdulaziz Hospital, three lectures: the first on “How to adopt performance improvement projects,” the second on “Quality Tools in Health Facilities,” and the third on “Global Patient Safety Goals.” .
And due to the importance of activating the International Day of Quality launched by the United Nations in 1990 in the need to increase global awareness of the importance of quality and its contribution to the upgrading of countries and organizations, developed countries followed this approach, as it became designated as a quality day or a quality week in November of every year.
On the sidelines of the event, the General Supervisor of the Prince Salman Center for Nephrology, Dr.Muhammad Al-Oumi, said: Organizing the quality event aims to spread the culture of quality in the health sector, and raise awareness of the pivotal role of quality in the transformation towards building an integrated health society, as well as the Quality Day in the health sector aims to Contribute to spreading the culture of quality, excellence and perfection and reinforcing directives towards its implementation.
He added that the Prince Salman Center for Kidney Diseases is a model in applying quality standards for health facilities, and it is the product of a long journey of tireless work that deserves to be shed light on and benefit from.
For his part, the head of the quality department at the center, Nayef Al-Ghamdi, confirmed that the center''s quality department has managed to achieve many achievements in the field of quality, indicating that quality and its standards are not only related to the medical aspect, but also to departments of an administrative nature.
Al-Ghamdi added, "In the event that all internationally recognized quality standards are applied in all health and administrative facilities, this will contribute effectively to improving the level of health services that positively reflect on patient safety."
At the end of the event, some departments that carried out outstanding performance improvement projects at the Prince Salman Center for Kidney Diseases were honored, and they are: Laboratory Department For the reduction in contamination of blood sample vessels in the center and the nursing department In improving nursing skills in dealing with vascular access through hemodialysis and infection control department On his effort in improving the compliance of nursing and medical staff in hand hygiene, and radiology For his project entitled "Improving Chest X-ray Quality".
