Zero Hero | A Heroic Effort to Eliminate Preventable Harm

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The mission of Nationwide Children's Hospital is to provide the highest quality patient care, in the safest possible environment, in order to achieve the best possible outcome for every patient.

Zero Hero was launched in 2009 as part of Nationwide Children's Hospital’s Quality and Safety efforts. Led by Chief Medical Officer Dr. Rich Brilli, Zero Hero challenged us all to help eliminate preventable harm. We’ve made great progress and have dramatically improved our safety culture and high-reliability practices.

Zero Hero Points of Pride
• Nationwide Children’s was the first pediatric institution to aspire to zero preventable harm and make it a public goal.
• We were the first health care institution to develop a pediatric preventable harm index. The model is now used for both statewide and national patient safety efforts.
• Zero Hero has prevented more than 500 events of harm, including 63 Serious Safety Events. And during the Zero Hero time period, overall hospital mortality has decreased 40 percent.
• Since Zero Hero began, we’ve achieved a 50 percent reduction in actual harm and an 85 percent reduction in serious safety events.

Because quality, safety and best outcomes are our top priorities, at any given time, we are working on hundreds of projects to improve patient outcomes.

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