The provision of safe and high quality medical care is Toyohashi Municipal Hospital’s foremost task. The hospital takes various measures to ensure the safety of its medical care.

The Deputy Director of the hospital heads this committee consisting of representatives from a variety of jobs relating to medical care, including doctors, nurses, technicians, office personnel etc. The committee is responsible for overall measures to ensure the safety of the hospital’s medical care. Comprehensive assessment and analysis are conducted from each person’s respective viewpoint in establishing medical safety measures for the hospital.

A risk manager is assigned to each clinical department, ward etc., and is the person responsible for managing medical safety in the workplace. As well as implementing measures decided by the Medical Safety Management Committee, each risk manager is responsible for assessing problems and making improvements in their respectivesection.

In all medical care workplaces, there are “near miss” incidents which do not result in an actual failure in medical care. Such incidents are reported from the workplace, then the situation and causes are analyzed in order for countermeasures to be put in place. This serves to prevent medical accidents from occurring.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is promoting this system nationwide, and it is being actively implemented by Toyohashi Municipal Hospital as one of our key measures to ensure the safety of our medical care.

An audit team, consisting mainly of members of the Medical Care Safety Management Committee, conducts an annual audit, after establishing topics relating to medical care safety, and checks that safety measures are being thoroughly implemented. If something is not in order, the audit team informs the relevant section of the required improvements, and also carries out a follow-up audit to check that the necessary improvements have been made.

To ensure the safety of our medical care, it is essential to continuously improve the awareness and skills of medical care professionals. At Toyohashi Municipal Hospital, we conduct basic training in the safety of medical care for new employees, to ensure that all our health professionals are fully aware of medical safety issues. We also conduct practical training sessions, such as precautions when using medical equipment etc.
In subsequent training, in accordance with experience and so on, we continue to hold sessions on medical safety, in our efforts tocontinually improve the awareness and skills of our employees.