The Acute Care Surgery (ACS) at Hamad Medical Corporation organised the annual report meeting to discuss the surgical activity report for acute surgery departments at HMC hospitals.
The meeting chaired by Dr Abdulla al-Ansari, chief medical officer at HMC, witnessed a participation of 40 department heads and acute surgery leaders represented by Dr Mohammad al-Aqqad, deputy chief of Corporate Acute Surgery Departments at HMC and Dr Ahmad Zarour, chief of Corporate Acute Surgery Care. Several nursing leaders and clinical pharmacists participated through video conferencing.
The annual event highlights the service programme performance, achievements, and challenges over the past year. A successful experience of the service corporate expansion was presented by ACS deputy head Dr Hijran Mahdi and ACS facilities assistant head Dr Sherif Mustafa, Dr Nizar Bouchiba, and Dr Orlando Perez.
During the meeting, a brief update on clinical and non-clinical quality domains was delivered by a total of 16 goals-driven key clinical leads represented through clinical affairs, patient experience, education and fellowship training programme, quality & performance and morbidity & mortality, national surgical quality improvement programme certifications, data management and registry, staff affairs, academic affair, corporate network, perioperative care, out-patient and ambulatory care, scientific research, patient flow, clinical practice guidelines and clinical pathway, audits and protocols.
ACS was launched in 2015 to offer specialised and emergency surgery services. The ACS team provide advanced surgical services 24/7 based on ensuring the best and most effective patient care at HMC facilities including Hamad General Hospital, Hazm Mbeireek General Hospital, The Cuban Hospital and Al Khor Hospital.
ACS services are proven to be of key importance in any healthcare system which would reduce the patient risk of death or complete disability. ACS departments improves the timely assessment of the patient, diagnosis and treatment for actual incidents or potential emergency. ACS departments provide its services through a specialised multidisciplinary team of highly trained specialists.
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