IHA case studies
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Reducing and eliminating patient harm are at the forefront of patient safety and continue to be a...
At a 350 bed community teaching hospital, potentially preventive readmissions data from the Illin...
This project addresses the health care system's strategic initiative to ensure interdisciplinary ...
The hospital identified an opportunity to improve its discharge planning process to allow more ti...
Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...
In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...
Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...
The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...
Hospital readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failu...
Advance care planning is a critical element of wellness for all adult patients, regardless of dia...
The Reducing Readmissions: Making Data Real project decreased acute rehospitalization rates by al...
Limited provider appointment availability in the clinic was causing delays for patients seeking c...
The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...
Evidence-based practice supports early goal-directed therapy for patients with sepsis. Improving ...
The neurosurgery service at this Level I trauma center had experienced high rates of surgical sit...
The health system did not have an adequate process for notifying staff when a patient was on cont...
In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...
The project focused on managing sepsis in the emergency department and in admitted patients, with...
The hospital’s venous thromboembolism (VTE) rate for total joint patients was 36.2 in 2011 and 37...
High rates of hospital readmissions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...
For several years, the hospital has been focused on reducing 30-day readmissions. After learning ...
Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...
This project involves raising awareness and expanding the palliative care program at HSHS St. Joh...
Readmissions are a burden for patients, families and health care providers. HSHS St. Joseph's Hos...
Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...
The goal of this quality improvement project was to reduce the length of hospitalization, to impr...
