Another Torrejón Hospital report concludes that quality and patient safety areas ‘meet objectives’

Since the controversy broke out on Wednesday at the Torrejón public hospital over the management of Ribera Salud and the publication of the audio of the CEO, Pablo Gallart, in which he defended adjustments to improve the accounts, the ministry’s inspections and controls have not found any irregularities or non-compliance in the hospital.

However, the Community announced this Tuesday that “a second report from the Health Department of the Community of Madrid carried out after last week’s inspection at the Torrejón University Hospital concludes that the Quality and Patient Safety Zones meet the objectives set by the Madrid Health Service for all hospitals in the region”.

This document adds to the first, carried out through the General Directorate of Health Inspection and Regulation, which stated that there was no evidence of reuse of single-use health products at the Torrejón University Hospital.

“This second report concluded that with regard to the quality of care and patient safety, the work was carried out correctly in all areas audited and in accordance with the objectives indicated in the Madrid Health Service Program Contract,” reports the Community of Madrid.

Each year, the Ministry of Health establishes common objectives that all hospitals in the region must develop. The Humanization, Care and Patient Safety service measures five indicators whose compliance is verified by the Health Evaluation Domain. These are the actions developed to improve perceived quality; those that advance in improving patient safety, those linked to the promotion of safe practices, those of pain care and those of the consolidation of quality management.

“In each of them the result was satisfactory, thus concluding how many actions were necessary to carry out to verify that the care and quality practices of the Torrejón University Hospital were adequate,” the statement said.