King Faisal hospital gets US award

The King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Jeddah is the first international hospital to receive the American Nurses Association NDNQI (National Database Nursing Quality Indicators) Award for Outstanding Nursing Quality 2013.
This is the second international award for outstanding nursing given to KFSH&RC (General Organization), Jeddah branch, in the past 6 months.
Chief Executive Officer Dr. Qasim Al-Qasabi congratulated the hospital nursing staff for their commitment to this achievement, and all those who made special efforts to acquire this award.
Al-Qasabi explained that it has only been a few months since the King Faisal hospital received the Magnet Hospital Designation and now this had been followed up by another sterling achievement of acquiring the American Nurses Association NDNQI Award of Outstanding Nursing Quality for 2013.
The hospital “is the first international hospital outside the United States of America to receive this award which recognizes outstanding nursing quality results against the database of over 2,000 Hospitals from a group of 10 countries including the KSA, UAE, Lebanon and Jordan as measured by their quality outcomes and according to the USA National Benchmark,” he said adding that “the award was given for top performance in the Teaching Hospitals category.”
The Jeddah branch of the hospital has been benchmarking nursing quality data with the NDNQI since 2007. The award is based on the exceptional outcomes for the following measures: Infection Rates, Pressure Ulcer Rates, Patient Falls, Use of Restraints, Pain Assessment and IV infiltrations, as well as RN satisfaction and RN turnover rates.
It is worthy of mention that this award reflects excellence in the quality of nursing services rendered by participant Hospitals through comprehensive and continuing assessment of registered nurses’ job satisfaction, patients and nurses’ outcomes.