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The ICU at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Desoto, MS, has reduced its rate of ventilator-associated pneumonias (VAPs) from 7.6% to 0.73%, has had only three in the last 24 months, and at one point went 14 months without any. Its urinary tract infection rate has gone from 5.7% to virtually zero, with only one infection in the last two years.
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When Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare looked at improving patient throughput, one of the issues that surfaced had to do with housekeeping, which historically had deployed its work force in a way that did not serve the facility, says Matthew J. Lambert, III, MD, MBA, FACS, FACHE, senior vice president, clinical operations. "We found that when we needed the most [housekeeping personnel], the fewest were there."
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IOM recommends phased-in Medicare P4P system; CMS announces preventive care project
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Examining how communities in the United States coped with the 1918 flu pandemic could help public health planners in their preparations for the next flu pandemic, according to the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School.
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At Fairview Hospital, a small critical access facility in Great Barrington, MA, a decision was made in spring 2005 to switch to an integrated system for performance measurement and improvement.
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At Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown, PA, patient-centered collaboration between the case management department and other areas, such as quality, nursing, inpatient and outpatient providers, the residency program, and the legal and finance departments, has had a dramatic impact on quality.
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With the growing emphasis on pay for performance initiatives, quality professionals are seeing their roles change very quickly.
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If you don't measure quality accurately, your organization could face dire consequences ranging from financial problems to plummeting patient satisfaction scores.
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Lack of consensus on how to measure hand hygiene compliance has made this a daunting challenge for quality professionals. To address this, the Joint Commission has partnered with infection control organizations to identify how to measure compliance with hand hygiene guidelines.
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More than a decade of research in aviation has shown how critical effective teamwork is to flight safety. Both the armed services and commercial aviation organizations have standardized training systems in place for teamwork.
