IHA case studies
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Senior leadership at Streamwood Behavioral Healthcare System assembled an improvement team to use...
The blood bank relocated to a new hospital facility while the labor and delivery (L&D) unit remai...
Administration of medications is one of the most error-prone stages in the medication use process...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...
This project aimed to reduce the OR turnover time for total joint cases. Baseline data showed it ...
Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...
The project improved the pharmacy to hospital floor Rx process to decrease returns, optimize auto...
Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...
Hospital readmissions are costly for both patients and facilities. At the time of discharge, pati...
Broadens view of care delivery from hospital-based practice to the entire bundle episode (30-days...
The goal of this project was to decrease the utilization rates of indwelling urinary catheters an...
The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...
An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...
Falls prevention continues to be a focus on all patient units and is a priority for safe care thr...
The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...
The C. diff collaborative is an ongoing initiative that was developed to improve the early identi...
The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...
Their journey to eliminate falls with injury started last year, working towards a safety culture ...
Patients are often poorly prepared to manage acute and chronic conditions following their dischar...
Utilization of Evidence-Based Guidelines for Outcomes Improvements, 30-Day Readmissions and Morta...
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection is the second most commonly reported hospital-associa...
Central line-associated bloodstream infections continue to be associated with high costs and mort...
Central line-associated blood stream infections cause serious patient harm, leading to thousands ...
During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....
GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries This case study is part of the Illinois Hospital Associ...
The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...
The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...
The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...
Their project was an effort to reduce DVT/PE incidence. This case study is part of the Illinois ...
Central line-associated blood stream infections cause serious patient harm, leading to thousands ...
During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....
GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries
The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...
The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...
The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...
Their project was an effort to reduce DVT/PE incidence. This case study is part of the Illinois H...
The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...
Perineal trauma during childbirth can lead to significant short- or long-term complications such ...
Antibiotic stewardship was implemented in 2011 and focuses on five "D's": Drug, De-escalation of ...
Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...
Maternal cardiac arrest is rare but often fatal. Obstetricians and perinatal nurses are often fir...
The goal was to reduce the delay in patient care by reducing patient wait times, both from reques...
Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...
The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...
The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...
Reduction in the use of fluoroquinolones is an important intervention for antimicrobial stewardsh...
This project was designed to improve the total health care for patients of a community mental hea...
Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...
St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...