IHA case studies
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In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...
The decision was made to proceed with efforts to eliminate elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks ...
...and therefore decrease the hospital’s financial risk as part of health care reform, increase c...
Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...
The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...
To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...
SMH was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative designed to improve quality, effi...
Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...
Noting an upward trend in central line-associated blood stream infections, the hospital joined th...
Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...
Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...
St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...
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...
In January 2011, utilizing the hospital’s system-wide electronic medical records, a family medici...
The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...
The hospital recognized an urgent need to improve the current rate of colorectal cancer screening...
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...