Palm Beach Children’s Hospital at St. Mary’s receives Level II verification by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Children’s Surgery Verification Quality Improvement Program (CSV).
The CSV program was developed to improve the quality of children’s surgical care by creating a system that allows for a prospective match of every child’s individual surgical needs with a care environment that has optimal pediatric resources. The program is based upon recognized standards meant to achieve high-quality patient outcomes for children’s surgical care. CSV standards ensure that children facing surgery receive care under a multidisciplinary program with quality improvement and safety processes, data collection, and appropriate resources provided to them as patients at the hospital.
“This distinction ensures that we are delivering the highest quality of care to our patients so they can have the best chance for a good outcome,” said Dr. Anne Fischer, Medical Director of Surgical Services at Palm Beach Children’s Hospital. “We were the first hospital to ever earn the Level II distinction, which requires the right level of training for our staff, infrastructure, and protocols. We want our young patients and their families to know that they are in good hands.”
