Quality improvement is an ongoing priority that helps us continually find new and better ways of doing things so we can enhance care for patients, increase satisfaction and achieve even better clinical outcomes.
Our Quality Improvement Plan, or QIP, is one tool we use to help us document and review our current performance in a variety of areas. With this plan, we are able to very clearly see our targeted areas for improvement and chart our progress.
In June 2010, the Ontario Government passed the Excellent Care for All Act. This legislation helps support hospitals to further improve the quality and safety of care they provide for members of our community.
One of the ways the Excellent Care for All Act is helping hospitals meet our community’s expectations regarding quality, patient safety and accountability is through the public reporting of QIPs. Our QIP is a meaningful way for Bluewater Health to clearly articulate our accountability to our community, patients and staff. Our QIP is focused on creating a positive patient experience and delivering high quality healthcare. The program has been paused for 2021-2022 due to pandemic pressures.
The QIP is only one of the ways we are working to improve our patients’ experiences. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have, or select the link for the answers to some frequently asked questions about our QIP.
Click here to access the quality and patient safety plan.
Maps & Directions
Bluewater Health’s programs and services are distributed across two locations, Bluewater Health in Sarnia and Charlotte Eleanor Englehart Hospital of Bluewater Health in Petrolia.
We are always looking for ways to improve, and welcome your questions, comments, suggestions and concerns. If you’re in hospital, please speak to the hospital staff.
