IHA case studies
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Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...
Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...
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...
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...
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...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
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...
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, ...
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...
The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...
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...
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 ...
A multidisciplinary team was formed to increase the rate of risk assessment and appropriate thera...