IHA case studies
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The hospital joined the On the CUSP: Stop BSI collaborative offered by IHA. The focus was on CLA...
Central line-associated bloodstream infections continued to occur in the adult ICU despite the im...
In October 2010, Memorial Medical Center implemented an intervention “bundle” designed to reduce ...
A hospital study was conducted to evaluate the practicality and effectiveness of UV light as a ge...
The Red Box strategy was created to help reduce cost and health care worker time associated with ...
Harm/hospital-acquired condition reports were sent to each hospital. In reviewing both campuses, ...
To reduce the time to first dose of antibiotics to directly admitted pediatric oncology patients ...
After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...
The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...
Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...
The purpose of the project was to improve the recognition and early goal directed treatment of pa...
The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...
Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...
The PICC team was created in March 2010 after the facility had documented an increase in PICC-ass...
The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...
In late January 2012, pharmacists began reviewing potential pneumonia patients using a screening ...
A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...
Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...
An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...
The goal was to improve turnaround times of troponin and EKGs within the cardiac patient populati...