Niagara Health has achieved Leadership Status as a Choosing Wisely Canada hospital for demonstrating our commitment to reducing unnecessary medical tests, treatments and procedures across our sites.
This is the highest national recognition for providing safe, high-quality healthcare that limits the non-essential use of low-value resources in patient care.
While getting tested is often an important part of managing your health, sometimes more tests are not always a good thing. Choosing Wisely Canada recognizes that avoidable testing and treatment is an issue in healthcare and is present in virtually every hospital, department and clinic, despite the size or diligence of clinicians working there.
Niagara Health’s Clinical Utilization Committee has been working tirelessly to achieve Leaadership Status as part of its commitment to providing extraordinary care, with a continued goal to maintain this status in the future.
The committee consists of representatives from pharmacy, diagnostic imaging, laboratory medicine and finance. Examples of the initiatives from this committee include de-prescribing medications when they are no longer required, reducing the frequency of blood and microbiology tests when they aren’t required, and aligning patient care with the latest evidence-based practices.
Niagara Health encourages patients and families to engage in conversations with their healthcare providers to make informed choices together.
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