Patient Safety Indicators

At Unity Health Toronto, we take your safety seriously and we are committed to providing you with high quality health-care services.

We have a number of practices in place to help reduce the chances of you getting hospital-acquired infections like Clostridioides difficile (C. Difficile) infection and antibiotic resistant bloodstream infections such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia and Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE) bacteremia. Our teams are constantly practicing, following and improving infection prevention and control standards such as routine hand hygiene. We also have practices in place to ensure that a standardized surgical safety checklist is routinely in use for surgeries at Unity Health to decrease the chance of error and adverse events.

Paying close attention to the spread of infectious diseases is essential, and it can show us what we need to do to improve. The Ontario Ministry of Health has established a number of patient safety indicators. All hospitals are required to publicly report these indicators and we also believe it’s the right thing to do. It’s important to us for you to know how we are performing. Unity Health’s patient safety indicators listed below are reported to the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care and are available to the public via Health Quality Ontario. 

Unity Health Toronto Patient Safety Indicators and Reporting Frequency

1. Nosocomial Clostridioides difficile (C. Difficile) infection (monthly)
2. Antibiotic-resistant bloodstream infections (monthly)
3. Hand hygiene compliance (annually)
4. Surgical safety checklist compliance (every three months)

Last updated July 26, 2024