Accreditation

Trillium Health Centre received a three-year Accreditation from the Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation (CCHSA) in July 2007. The CCHSA’s overwhelmingly positive report congratulates Trillium for being a leader in national patient safety, in particular:

• The Mental Health Team’s suicide prevention and awareness program was recognized as a national Leading Practice.

• The health centre was recognized as having fully implemented all of the 21 Required Organizational Practices (ROPs) according to the five patient safety goal areas: culture, communication, medication use, worklife/workforce and infection control.

• Trillium received 198 ratings of good to excellent compliance out of a list of 200 quality indicators related directly to patient safety. Trillium continues to make progress in the two areas in which a report on environmental improvements is required.

In its report, the CCHSA notes, “Trillium Health Centre has received recognition as a quality organization throughout the health care community on both a provincial and national level… The organization has a real commitment to quality and patient safety along with a well-developed culture of patient safety.”

The CCHSA is a national, non-profit, independent organization whose mission is to drive quality in health services through accreditation.