IHA case studies
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Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...
The Community Health Network (CHN) targets the socioeconomic determinants of health that are not ...
Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...
The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...
The organization sought to create a root cause analysis (RCA) structure that endowed greater focu...
Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...
Concussions are a growing problem for young athletes. The hospital’s overall goal is to educate a...
Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...
A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...
In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...
Although episiotomy was once considered a routine part of childbirth, in recent years, there has ...
The prevention of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) is a major focus for health care orga...
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...
Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...
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 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...
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...
HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...
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...
The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...
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 ...
The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...
A multidisciplinary team was formed to increase the rate of risk assessment and appropriate thera...
