MedStar Washington Hospital Center Gets Low Marks From Staff on Key Safety Issues
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Staff
at the region’s largest private hospital — MedStar Washington
HospitalCenter
— have given it consistently low marks in key areas of patient safety over
the
past four years, according to results released Friday.
Washington Hospital Center officials released results from
2012 and 2014 after the National Labor Relations Board ruled in favor of the
nurses union, which has been seeking the 2012 survey data. It was the first
time the hospital released any of the survey results. Stephen Frum, chief shop
steward for National Nurses United, which represents the hospital’s 1,900
nurses, said the union was pleased the hospital released the information.
“It’s
unfortunate we had to go through all this litigation to get that data,” he
said Friday. “We look forward to collaborating with management
to
improve safety.” WHC scored below average on a majority of the issues
surveyed. - adapted from Lena
Sun’s 7/21 report in The Washington
Post