IHA case studies
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Only 20 percent of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients at the hospital were properly ...
Only 20 percent of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients at the hospital were properly ...
The patient experience as measured by patient satisfaction scores is an organizational goal. In t...
During 2011, the hospital joined the IHA Project Re-Engineering Discharge (RED) collaborative to ...
A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...
Since 2010, the academic medical center has been supporting a program to reduce 30-day all cause ...
Using a Community Needs Assessment, Morris Hospital, which serves 18 rural communities, identifie...
Three patient navigators are used to advocate on behalf of women with abnormal breast findings on...
After identifying inequities with affordable access to primary care services and an uncoordinated...
Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...
Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...
The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...
The goal was to eliminate all variances in the clinical process measures to ensure that patients ...
According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...
The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...
Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...
Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...
In December 2009, the medical center embarked on a little known and practiced procedure in the Un...
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In 2009, the leadership team of this hospital empowered its multidisciplinary critical care commi...
The hospital was experiencing higher costs and lower quality care than its competitors based on d...
The hospital developed a comprehensive, multidisciplinary stroke program to provide patients with...
Early and safe mobility of critically ill patients in a cardiovascular surgical intensive care un...
After several monthly reviews of reported adverse drug events, hypoglycemia ranked highest for th...
The driving principle behind the outpatient service excellence journey is excellent customer serv...
A nurse-driven protocol was implemented to increase the staff’s awareness on the appropriate indi...
After identification of an opportunity to reduce CAUTIs, leadership headed an initiative to reduc...
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...
Development of a Norwood Clinic allowed the quality improvement team to create goals to decrease ...
