"We are delighted to welcome Dr. Kendall Quality Advisory Board," said Lori Gibbons, RN, Missionary Servants of Love, CPHQ, vice president for quality improvement and patient safety at CHS. "His passion, knowledge and experience as a caregiver and hospital doctor will be active as the Board continues its work to ensure safe, reliable and high-quality health care for all patients in South Carolina. "
According to CHS, the Advisory Council is an interdisciplinary quality and diverse team of leading healthcare statewide providing advice and guidance to hospitals and providers in the areas of quality improvement and patient safety.
For Kendall, patient safety is top priority. During his tenure of 15 years as a specialist in internal medicine and pediatrics at the RMC, he always showed his passion for patient safety and improve the quality of healthcare.
In 2014, Kendall was awarded the prize for caregivers champion Lewis Blackman Security SchA Award, given to a doctor, nurse, pharmacist or other hospital employee whose efforts have led to changes that promote patient safety and improving quality in the header.
Another example of the impact of Kendall in RMC Patient Safety has received national recognition. The RMC team Hospitalist and quality was awarded the Thomas Reuters Health Advantage National Prize for better delivery of extraordinary care orientation rate of mortality among patients RMC in 2010.
RMC Kendall joined in the creation of hospital care program as one of the four specialists in internal medicine. The program has grown to include 17 specialists in internal medicine and four pediatric specialists.
Kendall has served on numerous committees RMC where he uses his experiences in direct patient care to impact the change of system. the participation of the Commission includes: patient safety; the quality; chair, data analysis and clinical strategy; chair, sepsis improvement team performance; Peer Review; infection control and others.
He is a member of the team to improve intensive care, which achieved extraordinary results of patient care without ventilation associated pneumonia in nearly three years and a reduction in mortality of more than 50 percent.
Kendall serves champion clinician alarm Committee to develop policies and procedures to improve processes related to clinical alarms, a new national goal of patient safety mandate of the Joint Commission. In addition, he served as chairman of the Committee of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, which focuses on best practices for the consistent application of protocols to ensure that the right drugs are the right people in the right way at the right time with the dose correct.
He contributed to the development of a multidisciplinary program to improve outcomes for stroke patients.
The team has established racetracks to guide quickly and effectively to the patient through radiological and serological studies, clinical evaluations and ensure quick contact with multiple specialties, including: neurology, cardiology, neurosurgery, intensive care and internal medicine . RMC has received from the advanced certification as a primary stroke by the Joint Commission.
board certified in internal medicine, Kendall graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 1998. He completed his residency at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center.
He is a member of numerous professional organizations and has served in the Department of exploration SC (HIDA) Advisory hepatobiliary environmental monitoring and health 2010-2012 and S. Healthcare Alliance C for preventing infections 2010-2012 Committee. Kendall was a member of the board 2011 reviewers for the National Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award NIST.
