At Oak Valley Health, your safety is very important to us. We don’t want you to be worried about picking up an infection when staying at our hospitals.
A health care-associated infection is when a patient is infected by a bacteria or virus during their stay that they did not have before their stay.
To reduce this risk, we constantly practice and follow standards to prevent and control infections. To help ensure your safety, and in compliance with the public reporting process, we manage and keep track of our health care-associated infection rates, as well as hand washing rates. These are referred to as patient safety indicators (see below).
Monitoring patient safety indicators helps us understand where safety issues exist and what we need to do to improve.
Reporting timeline (monthly)
Data source – IPAC surveillance
Oak Valley Health – for the fiscal year 2024/2025
Apr.
May
June
July
Aug.
Sept.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
Number of Cases
1
2
4
Rates per 1000 patient days
0.1
0.19
0.37
Rates are provide for Clostridioides difficile infections that are considered as having been in acquired within the hospital based on the case definitions from the Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee. For more information on how CDI rates are calculated refer to:
Rates refer to central line associated blood stream infections that develop in patients within the intensive care unit (ICU) after at least 48 hours or more following an insertion of a central line.
For more information on how CLABSI rates are calculated refer to:
Hand Hygiene compliance rates are reported for BEFORE and AFTER patient and patient environment contact annually.
We monitor and audit our health care providers for the four moments of hand hygiene:
Before initial patient/patient environment contact
Before aseptic procedure
After body fluid exposure risk
After patient/patient environment contact
Unit identified hand hygiene observers audit health care providers and results are shared with leadership in the area to ensure compliance targets are met and improvements made as needed to practices.
For more information on how hand hygiene rates are calculated refer to:
Rates refer to Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremias that are considered to have been acquired within the hospital based on the case definitions provided by the Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee.
For more information on how MRSA rates are calculated refer to:
99.9% of surgeries with completed safety checklists
Reporting timeline (quarterly)
Data source – IPAC surveillance
2023/2024
2023/2024
2023/2024
2023/2024
2024/2025
2024/2025
2024/2025
2024/2025
Markham Stouffville Hospital
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
Rate
100
100
100
100
100
Rate refers to the percentage of total primary hip/knee replacement surgical patients with antibiotic administration within the appropriate time prior to beginning surgery.
For more information on how SSI prevention rates are calculated refer to:
Rates refer to Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus bacteremias that are considered to have been acquired within the hospital based on the case definitions provided by the Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee.
For more information on how VRE rates are calculated refer to:
Rates refer to ventilator associated pneumonia that develops in patients within the intensive care unit (ICU) after least 48 hours or more following placement of mechanical ventilation.
For more information on how VAP rates are calculated refer to:
We encourage you to visit the Health Quality Ontario website, which contains information about patient safety at hospitals across Ontario. The purpose of the site is to make information about Ontario hospitals accessible and useful to patients and their families, to help you participate in the management of your own health care.
