Scott Montgomery, Administrator of McLeod Health Loris, and Board of Trustees Ronald Fowler and Frank Boulinea accept the Certified Zero Harm Awards for McLeod Health Loris and McLeod Health Seacoast on December 17. They are pictured with Susan Pickle, Vice President of Quality and Safety, and Thornton Kirby, President of the South Carolina Hospital Association.

On December 17, Thornton Kirby, President and CEO of the South Carolina Hospital Association, presented the McLeod Health Board of Trustees and Hospital Administrators with 23 South Carolina “Certified Zero Harm Awards” in recognition of the hospital system’s excellent work in preventing hospital-acquired infections. McLeod Health received the most Zero Harm Awards by a hospital system in 2018. Additionally, McLeod Health has been awarded 59 Zero Harm Awards since 2014, according to Kirby.

The Zero Harm Awards showcase the hospitals who have had extended harm-free stretches in surgical site infections in major surgical procedures like knee replacements, hip replacements, colon surgery, and abdominal hysterectomy, or gone months without a Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infection (CLABSI), MRSA or C. diff. To earn a Certified Zero Harm Award, hospitals must experience no preventable hospital-acquired infections of a specific nature over an extended period of time.

All hospital data used for the awards is independently verified by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and recognizes the exceptional achievement the hospital or hospital unit has made to the safety and quality of care within their facilities.

The McLeod Health hospitals recognized with Zero Harm Awards included McLeod Health Cheraw, McLeod Health Dillon, McLeod Health Loris, McLeod Health Seacoast and McLeod Regional Medical Center.

McLeod Health Clarendon was not eligible to receive these awards due to being the newest facility in the health system. They will be eligible for this recognition next year.

McLeod Health Cheraw
CLABSI • ICU • 18 Months
SSI Abdominal Hysterectomy • Hospital Wide • 18 Months
SSI Colon • Hospital Wide • 18 Months

McLeod Health Loris
C. diff • Hospital Wide • 12 Months
CLABSI • ICU • 18 Months
CLABSI • ICU • 24 Months
SSI Colon • Hospital Wide • 24 Months
SSI Abdominal Hysterectomy • Hospital Wide • 42 Months

McLeod Health Dillon
SSI Hip • Hospital Wide • 24 Months
MRSA • Hospital Wide • 42 Months

McLeod Regional Medical Center
CLABSI • NICU • 12 Months
CLABSI • NICU • 12 Months
CLABSI • CVICU • 12 Months
CLABSI • TSCU • 12 Months
CLABSI • TSCU • 12 Months
CLABSI • CCU • 24 Months
CLABSI • PICU • 36 Months

McLeod Health Seacoast
SSI Hip • Hospital Wide • 12 Months
C. diff • Hospital Wide • 12 Months
MRSA • Hospital Wide • 18 Months
SSI Knee • Hospital Wide • 30 Months
CLABSI • ICU • 30 Months
SSI Abdominal Hysterectomy • Hospital Wide • 54 Months