News Briefs: Cedars-Sinai joins the IHI network
Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has become one of 56 charter members of a new multinational network, created by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Boston, to improve health care quality.
The network, known as IMPACT, brings together change-oriented health care organizations seeking to improve the way health care is delivered.
The 56 charter members are located in 28 U.S. states and two provinces in Canada.
IMPACT is a network of health care organizations that are joining together to create a community of service providers committed to significantly improving patient care.
IMPACT member organizations will work in five critical areas:
- Patient Safety — ensuring that patients are as safe in their facilities as they are in their own homes;
- Office Practice and Outpatient Settings — building efficient, proactive, patient-centered care systems for primary care, specialty practices, and ambulatory settings;
- Flow Through the Hospital — reducing waiting times, redundancy, and waste throughout the hospital system;
- Intensive Care Settings — improving care for patients in critical-care units while reducing costs;
- Work Force Development — ensuring a vibrant, motivated, and skilled work force.
Focusing on breakthrough improvements
Each of the IMPACT member organizations has committed to making breakthrough improvements in one or more of these areas during the next two years. Cedars-Sinai has been focusing on patient safety.
"We are enormously pleased to be a part of this multinational effort," says Thomas M. Priselac, president and CEO of Cedars-Sinai.
"As past participants of IHI’s Quantum Leaps in Patient Safety Collaborative, we are excited to continue our work with the Institute and other health care institutions to improve health outcomes and patient safety," Priselac says.
"It is hard to improve alone," adds Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, IHI president and CEO.
"That’s why we created IMPACT, a community of improvers who will learn and act together across organizations, disciplines, and even nations," he says. "Together, they will accelerate learning, cut the risks and costs of innovation, celebrate successes, and support each other to transform patient care."
For more information on IMPACT, contact IHI at (888) 320-6937. Web: www.ihi.org. E-mail: [email protected].
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