Quality statistics of the clinic
We gladly and completely voluntarily publish our statistics on all typical surgical complication classes for the Forum Clinic in Cologne for the last five years. All consultations, treatments, and surgeries at the Forum Clinic are carried out personally by the chief physicians. We take great pride in the results of our statistical evaluation.
All patients were monitored at least until the completion of wound healing. From exchanges and comparisons with other clinics, we know that our complication rate is extremely low. This has several reasons:
As a private clinic, we do not accommodate chronically ill patients and therefore do not have an antibiotic-selected germ spectrum in our clinic.
We take the issue of MRE (multidrug-resistant pathogens) very seriously. All female and male patients are screened depending on the results of an MRE questionnaire. Screening is harmless: a combined nasal/throat swab is taken with a cotton swab and examined microbiologically. Only MRE-negative patients are operated on. As we do not treat emergencies, all patients can be tested. If you test positive for MRE, you must first be treated by your general practitioner. After three negative tests, there is nothing preventing an operation.
Our specialty that shouldn’t be one: we also test ourselves. From our perspective, it is a mockery: in public German hospitals, the staff is currently NOT screened. They are probably afraid of finding too many MRE carriers among the staff and not being able to cope with the sick leave during the treatment. On the other hand, such a policy risks thousands of deaths due to nosocomial infections. The Netherlands is an example of how it can be done differently. We believe: as long as the staff is not screened, the policy addresses the MRE issue only half-heartedly. Patient screening is just a fig leaf as long as the doctor in the intensive care unit is a carrier themselves! It is no coincidence that many of the few patients who have tested positive for MRE in our screening work in the healthcare sector!
We of course acquired the 2nd MRE seal on February 11, 2016.
If you are interested in this topic, please read the article about obtaining the quality seal of the MRE network Regio Rhein-Ahr under our quality statistics.
The Forum Clinic Cologne was awarded the quality seal of the MRE network Regio Rhein-Ahr for the second time, which is awarded for exemplary hygiene commitment in the service of patient safety.
Resistances to antibiotics are becoming an increasingly important issue worldwide, but also for medical care in Germany. Multiresistant pathogens (MRE) can jeopardize the supply security of outpatient and inpatient patients. Ten years ago, health politicians from the federal and state levels decided to establish networks to combat the spread of MRE nationwide. The city of Cologne was one of the founding members of the MRE network Rhein-Ahr in 2010.
From the very beginning, the Forum Klinik also committed itself to this important topic and was one of the clinics that first received the MRE seal in 2013. On February 11, 2016, it was that time again: As part of a celebratory event at the Cologne Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, the delegation from the Forum Klinik was able to receive the 2nd MRE seal from the hands of the Deputy Mayor of Cologne, Scho-Antwerpes, as well as from Prof. Dr. med. Martin Exner, director of the coordinating Institute for Hygiene and Public Health at the University of Bonn. Ten comprehensive quality objectives had to be successfully met in order to obtain the prestigious seal for the period 2016-2019. These include the seamless implementation of national hygiene recommendations, the systematic recording of hospital infections and their risk factors, the targeted and critical use of antibiotics, and the structural quality of hygiene in the clinic. Hand hygiene was addressed as a specific quality goal due to its great importance. The seal was awarded again in 2022.
Successful hospital hygiene is always teamwork. The hygiene officer in nursing, Ulla Fröhlich, the hygiene officer physician, Dr. med. Thomas Giel, both continuously trained for this task, as well as the hygiene specialist Birgit Heßler and the hospital hygienist Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Kistemann as experienced external advisors could always count on the support of the entire clinic on the path to the MRE seal. The awarding of the seal is thus recognition and confirmation of what has been achieved for the entire Forum Klinik and at the same time an incentive to continue meeting the highest standards of hygiene and patient safety.
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