Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare
The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare uses a systematic approach to analyze specific breakdowns in care and discover underlying causes to develop targeted solutions. The result is The Center's Targeted Solutions Tool. The TST is an application available free to all Joint Commission accredited hospitals that provides step-by-step processes to measure performance, identify barriers to excellent performance, and customize solutions. It combines Lean Six Sigma tools to hospitals wanting to improve and sustain changes.
These customized solutions to common barriers are assisting hospitals in improving quality of care. The first tool is on hand hygiene. The participating hospitals identified common barriers to improving hand hygiene rates and then provided solutions.
As a supporter of the Center for Transforming Healthcare, the American Hospital Association interviewed and analyzed this approach and wrote a report on the findings. Hand Hygiene Project: Best Practices from Hospitals Participating in the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare Project provides examples of solutions with commentary from the eight participating hospitals.
Hand Hygiene Project
View the Executive Summary
View the entire Report
For further information on the project, visit the Center's website on the Hand Hygiene Project.
The Center is currently working on other issues, including surgical site infections and hand-off communications. The AHA will continue to work with the Center to provide hospital executives with an overview of the work.
The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare is a not-for-profit affiliate of The Joint Commission. The Center is grateful for the generous leadership and support of the American Hospital Association, BD, Ecolab, GE Healthcare, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Johnson & Johnson, and Medline Industries, as well as the support of the Federation of American Hospitals and GOJO Industries, Inc.
