IHA case studies
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The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...
Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...
In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...
The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...
The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...
The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...
Within the organization over the last year, a new division of four hospitals was created, with th...
The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...
Within the organization over the last year, a new division of four hospitals was created, with th...
In December 2008, the hospital spotlighted national Hospital Quality Measures performance and fou...
Maternal cardiac arrest is rare but often fatal. Obstetricians and perinatal nurses are often fir...
The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
In 2009, a multi-pronged approach involving all stakeholders was launched aimed at early identifi...
The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...
July 2009-October 2011 baseline data for the blood culture contamination rate in the ED showed it...
The ER blood culture contamination rate remained above the national target even after implementin...
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...
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...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
The goal was to decrease the number of patients negatively affected by experiencing a post-operat...
The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...
This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...
