IHA case studies
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At a 350 bed community teaching hospital, potentially preventive readmissions data from the Illin...
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...
Hospital readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failu...
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...
In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...
High rates of hospital readmissions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...
Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...
Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...
Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...
The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...
In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...
To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...
The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...
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...