Quality management
Ragnitz Graz Private Hospital has always been a pioneer in terms of quality. This quality work is seen as an essential element which covers all areas. We focus on medical quality management as much as on services that go beyond medical treatment.
Medical outcome quality
When patients choose a hospital, they want to go where they will receive the best medical care. This information is hard to come by, though. Measuring medical outcome quality is a difficult task since the basic prerequisites for an operation or a treatment are different for each individual.
Nevertheless the PremiQaMed private hospitals have taken on this challenging task and has begun by surveying the number of wounds that become infected by hospital as a preliminary indicator of medical outcome quality. Everything should nominally be done to prevent these infections, so the figure should approach zero. The figure below shows the values for PremiQaMed private hospitals compared to the international nominal values.
Rate of infection for selected operations
| Type of surgical intervention | Nominal value | PremiQaMed Hospitals value* |
|---|---|---|
| Hip replacement | <0.98% | 0.16% |
| Knee replacement | <0.49% | 0.57% |
| Caesarian section | <0.68% | 0.00% |
| Gallbladder removal | <1.59% | 0.05% |
* Source: Quality report 2021
Quality report
Data on medical services and patient satisfaction is made provided in the annual Quality report. It is publicly available to allow any interested party to form a factual and objective impression of the quality services provided by PremiQaMed Private Hospitals. It additionally provides information about successfully implemented activities and projects.
The current Quality report (PDF, 1.8 MB, in German only) covering the entire PremiQaMed Group, including the Confraternität, Döbling and Goldenes Kreuz Private Hospitals in Vienna, Graz Ragnitz Private Hospital in Styria, Wehrle-Diakonissen Private Hospital in Salzburg, the Döbling Outpatient Center, the Gesundheitszentrum für Selbständige and the Klinikum Malcherhof Baden, reveals that in 2021 an astounding 96.3 percent of 46,447 patients with inpatient treatment were satisfied and almost 96.8 percent would recommend our services to others.
Our corporate strategy is focused on the sustained development of quality and the continual assessment and improvement of safety and patient satisfaction in all areas – from medical care and dedicated, professional nursing care, to a pronounced understanding and appreciation of service provision.
Accreditations
- Accreditation of our sleep laboratory by the Austrian Society for Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research (ASRA)
- Accreditation established by AGAKAR (Association for Outpatient Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation)
- Validation in sterilization procedures conducted in large steam sterilizers conforming to the Austrian standard EN 554
- Validation and monitoring of machine cleaning and disinfecting procedures for flexible endoscopy according to the Austrian standard EN ISO 15 883
