Vinh City General Hospital: Exciting '5S Festival'

Doctor CKII Nguyen Hong Truong - Director of Vinh General Hospital emphasized the significance of implementing the 5S model in implementing the hospital development theme in 2019 "Year of quality management". Photo: Dinh Nguyet

Deployed since 2017, up to now, the modelquality management“5S - Sort, Set in order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain”has been effectively promoting and gradually improving the quality management system at Vinh City General Hospital.

The model has contributed to changing awareness, forming neat, scientific, and clean working habits of all hospital staff; increasing work efficiency.

All officers, employees and workers of Vinh General Hospital participated in "5S Festival". Photo: Dinh Nguyet

Implementing the “5S” model, the Hospital has continued to reduce waiting time for patients, shorten the time to perform procedures; limit mistakes and errors; avoid wasting medical supplies; better control incidents, ensure safety, and increase patient satisfaction.

Experts from the Center for Healthcare Innovation Research train hospital doctors and nurses on the 5S quality management model. Photo: Dinh Nguyet

Implementing the hospital development theme in 2019 "Year of quality management", the Hospital launched "5S Festival" widely in departments and rooms.

Experts guide staff and doctors of the Pharmacy Department on methods to improve the effectiveness of the 5S model. Photo: Dinh Nguyet

Within the framework of the festival program, the Hospital invited two experts from the Center for Medical Innovation Research to train hospital staff on the 5S model.

Accordingly, the expert provided the necessary knowledge to raise awareness of officials, civil servants and employees about the importance and significance of the model; At the same time, re-evaluate the effectiveness of maintaining the 5S model at the hospital and guide how to improve the effectiveness of this model in departments.

After being trained, all departments and offices started applying new methods in implementing the 5S model.

Staff and doctors of the Internal Medicine Department were instructed on how to improve and enhance the effectiveness of implementing the 5S model in the department. Photo: Dinh Nguyet

In the coming time, Vinh General Hospital will continue to regularly and continuously maintain and improve the effectiveness of quality management work according to "5S" in all departments and rooms; in order to increasingly perfect the model of a comprehensively developed hospital, meeting the increasing demand for medical examination and treatment of the people./.