IHA case studies
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Bronchiolitis, one of the most costly and frequent medical diagnoses seen at the hospital, is a s...
This health system's employee influenza vaccination policy compliance rate was less than 70 perce...
Because the medical center’s lost charge capture related to IV injection and infusions totaled $8...
Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...
Turnaround time for immunohistochemistry (IHC) stains in the laboratory of a 500 bed tertiary car...
The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...
Operational and physician leaders identified an opportunity to decrease the use of off-site telem...
This project has decreased cycle time for medication reconciliation at time of admission and for ...
The CK-MB Test is a traditional blood test of a cardiac marker used to assist in the diagnosis of...
Studies show lipase to be as sensitive as and more specific than amylase in diagnosing pancreatit...
The organization used both discrete event and live simulation methodologies to ensure the smooth ...
The emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...
Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...
The utilization review staff at HSHS St. Elizabeth's Hospital examines medical records for inpati...
A local urology department partnered with the performance improvement department to identify oppo...
The clinic throughput time was viewed as excessive and lacked standardized best practices. A new ...
Surgery case cancellation rates OSF Center for Health were 10.5 percent over six months. This cre...
Outpatient registration at OSF Center for Health required patients to stand in line for extended ...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
In December 2008, the hospital spotlighted national Hospital Quality Measures performance and fou...
Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...
After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
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...
Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...
A Safe Patient Handling program (SPH) was initiated in 2006. A SPH vendor was chosen based upon e...
Excellent patient-centered care is the goal of a program implemented by the team at McDonough Dis...
OSF Healthcare, Peoria, Ill., wanted to improve the care of patients experiencing an ST elevation...
The patient experience as measured by patient satisfaction scores is an organizational goal. In t...
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...
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...
HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...
After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...
Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...
Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...
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...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...
Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...
A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...
This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...
Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...
The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that c...
Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...
The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...
A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...