Under the patronage of His Excellency the Minister of Health, Dr. Tawfiq bin Fawzan Al-Rabiah, MOH will announce tomorrow (Wednesday), October 21st, 2020, winners of Ada’a Health Award for this year. The Award has 9 tracks divided into 3 sections: individual track, MOH’s facility track and non-MOH service provider track.
The 9 tracks include 3 awards for each category, the individual track award includes: best performance award for change department staff, change improvement staff and data collectors. MOH’s facility track award includes: best performance improvement project award for a general hospital, mental health hospital, primary healthcare center, and award for best participant in the second edition of Ada’a health program. Two awards will be presented to non-MOH service provider track, best performance improvement project award for the private sector in the Kingdom and other government service providers sector.
It is noteworthy that the Ada’a Health program was launched by MOH to pave the way for achieving health goals of the Saudi Vision 2030 and raising the level of productivity, efficiency and quality performance in the provision of health services in hospitals. It includes more than 42 key performance indicators across seven hospital domains. The program has had a huge impact on the way care is delivered to patients and resulted in over 1500 focused improvements that are implemented in hospitals that led to many success stories that have directly impacted patients and their families.
Some of the most notable achievements include being able to treat over 87% of patients within 4 hours of their arrival in the emergency unit compared to 36% prior to the launch of the program in 2016, in addition to helping more than 1,900 employees to gain the required skills to boost decision making and select and lead improvement projects based on the measurement of key performance indicators.
MOH has rolled out this program to include over 150 hospitals and has incorporated over 700 primary healthcare centers with an expansion to more than 10 hospital domains. The goal is to be able to standardize the KPIs being measured and upload these into a dashboard that will help the ministry monitor performance, draw meaningful insights and make decisions that will continually provide better, safer and more efficient care to the patients and citizens in the Kingdom