IHA case studies
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At a 350 bed community teaching hospital, potentially preventive readmissions data from the Illin...
In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...
Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...
Operational and physician leaders identified an opportunity to decrease the use of off-site telem...
The CK-MB Test is a traditional blood test of a cardiac marker used to assist in the diagnosis of...
The organization used both discrete event and live simulation methodologies to ensure the smooth ...
Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...
High rates of hospital readmissions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...
As a health organization that serves communities disproportionately affected by asthma, Sinai Hea...
Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...
Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...
In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...
The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...
Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...
Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...
Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...
To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...
Noting an upward trend in central line-associated blood stream infections, the hospital joined th...
Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...
The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...
Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...
Children with cystic fibrosis have better lung function and survival rates if their body mass ind...
The hospital applied for the Joint Commission certification as a Primary Stroke Center. In order...
The patient experience as measured by patient satisfaction scores is an organizational goal. In t...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...
Early and safe mobility of critically ill patients in a cardiovascular surgical intensive care un...
After identification of an opportunity to reduce CAUTIs, leadership headed an initiative to reduc...
Harm/hospital-acquired condition reports were sent to each hospital. In reviewing both campuses, ...
To reduce the time to first dose of antibiotics to directly admitted pediatric oncology patients ...
The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...
Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...
The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...
An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...
The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...
Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...
A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...
Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...
Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...
Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...
Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance...
Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...
The reduction of HAPU has been a focus for 10 years at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center. Over tha...
Quarterly surveys revealed elevated hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates unchanged by previous ...
