Microsystems • Resources for other Health Care Organizations

At Cooley Dickinson Hospital, we hold ourselves to the highest standards when it comes to delivering patient care. We are committed to sharing our quality improvement initiatives as well as the data tied to those efforts so you can compare Cooley Dickinson against other organizations.

Safer Care, Hands Down

At Cooley Dickinson, we are making care safer through our ongoing efforts to reduce medical errors, complications and infections. Because any adverse outcome is one too many, we continue to strive toward the goal of making care safer for all patients. We are doing everything we can to reach these high standards, which reflect best practices in the top 10 percent of hospitals nationwide.

In this quality and safety section, you will find information about:

• resources for healthcare consumers and patients
• requesting a medication card
• getting involved: your role in staying healthy
• Cooley Dickinson’s quality improvement initiatives and our commitment to transparency
• becoming a model community hospital and what this means for your care
• Microsystems, a quality improvement approach, and
• awards and recognitions.