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How to get your staff to comply with SCIP
Quality Improvement Report, May 1, 2008
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Implementing Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) procedures can be a challenge for hospitals. Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA, uses a process that reduces SCIP noncompliance among physicians and staff members.
Jan Fitzgerald, MS, RN, director of quality medical management at Baystate, which ranks second in the country for SCIP compliance, has implemented a process that makes it more difficult for physicians to not follow their SCIP procedures than to follow them.
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