MIDDLETOWN — The Middlesex Health Affected person and Household Advisory Council is celebrating 10 years of service to the sufferers and households cared for by Middlesex Well being.
Council members embrace sufferers and their relations, caregivers and well being system workers, and their mission is to collaborate with Middlesex Well being on alternatives to realize the best high quality, most secure and most respectful and compassionate care, in accordance with a press launch.
The council’s objectives are to enhance the affected person and household expertise, promote affected person and family-centered care, strengthen communication and collaboration between sufferers and their households and the well being system, educate sufferers and their households concerning the significance of taking duty for their very own well being and well being care, and supply enter for obtain the best stage of affected person security, the assertion mentioned.
Over the previous decade, the council has contributed positively to Middlesex, the well being middle mentioned. It created checklists to assist hospital sufferers know what to anticipate throughout their keep, collaborated with hospital workers to design patient-friendly hospital room white boards and supported the implementation of a uniform coverage that requires Middlesex workers members to put on a selected coloration uniform based mostly on their division, it mentioned.
Most just lately, the Affected person Household Advisory Council put in a plaque recognizing workers for his or her efforts in the course of the pandemic, and COVID-19 memorial backyard, positioned throughout from the hospital’s important entrance. About 300 daffodil bulbs have been planted final fall for sufferers who died from COVID-19.
Others have been planted in reminiscence of those that died from COVID-19 and have been family members of Middlesex Well being workers.
“We’re a various group with one collective voice that speaks up for the entire sufferers and households served below the Middlesex Well being umbrella,” Sheila Daniels, a Middletown resident and co-chairwoman of the Affected person and Household Advisory Council, mentioned within the assertion.