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In 2009, the leadership team of this hospital empowered its multidisciplinary critical care committee to develop and implement a therapeutic hypothermia protocol. The protocol was instituted at the patient's point-of-entry via the ED for all out-of-hospital, post- cardiac arrest patients. The goal…
Collective Impact is the commitment of a group of actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a complex social problem. In order to create lasting solutions to social problems on a large-scale, organizations need to coordinate their efforts and work together around a clearly…
Brief Amici Curiae of the Equal Employment Advisory Council, National Federation of Business Small Business Legal Center and American Hospital Association in Support of Petitioner
The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2011 and five from May-October 2011. The hospital identified best practices, developed engaged staff and physician champions, achieved multidisciplinary collaboration and identified opportunities to…
The purpose of the project was to improve the recognition and early goal directed treatment of patients with sepsis to reduce mortality rates by 50 percent in one year from implementation. The hospital used multi-point strategies provided by the Surviving Sepsis Campaign to help guide practitioners…
Utilizing PDSA, the hospital's multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to enhance the patient care experience associated with total knee replacement surgery through improved patient education and improved surgical outcomes, including a reduction in the risk of postoperative…
The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measures. In fiscal year 2010, the hospital's failure rate was 42 percent, with a high of 63 percent in November 2010. This project focused on improving the health of hospitalized patients by increasing…
After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerized physician order entry and medication barcoding to assist with medication verification, and initiated the transition to smart pump technology that included safety software. Drug libraries were…
To reduce the time to first dose of antibiotics to directly admitted pediatric oncology patients with febrile neutropenia, an interdisciplinary quality improvement team systematically analyzed admission and treatment processes to identify barriers to care and key tactics for process improvement. A…
Harm/hospital-acquired condition reports were sent to each hospital. In reviewing both campuses, each was in the 'red' on the scorecard for hospital-acquired C. diff. A CQI+ team was sanctioned to reduce hospital-acquired C. diff by half from a high of 11 cases per month to 5.5 cases per month.