IHA case studies
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A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...
The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...
Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...
This facility's coronary artery stents per admission rate was consistently higher than the nation...
The project began with a focus on CHF readmissions. As the multidisciplinary team saw decreases i...
A Safe Patient Handling program (SPH) was initiated in 2006. A SPH vendor was chosen based upon e...
The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...
Excellent patient-centered care is the goal of a program implemented by the team at McDonough Dis...
Saint Anthony Health Center, Alton, Ill., took a hard look at data from its cancer program and fo...
Many Medicare patients with life-limiting illnesses had no documented advanced directive while in...
A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...
Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...
The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...
The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...
In December 2009, the medical center embarked on a little known and practiced procedure in the Un...
In 2009, the leadership team of this hospital empowered its multidisciplinary critical care commi...
The driving principle behind the outpatient service excellence journey is excellent customer serv...
The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...
A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...
Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...