Quality & Patient Safety
A recent service line addition to Corewell Health West’s virtual ICU initiative is the Advanced Heart Failure team.
Although drug diversion occurs infrequently, Dartmouth Health developed a Drug Diversion Prevention Program to further strengthen its protocols and minimize the potential for the mishandling of medications.
In 2023, Ochsner Health launched a systemwide initiative to reduce severe pressure ulcers acquired in the hospital setting by addressing standardization challenges presented by variations in hospital size and capacity across the system.
Despite constrained resources, West Feliciana Hospital has shown how rural health systems can transform cardiac care and patient outcomes by updating emergency response processes by leveraging community involvement and implementing evidence-based standards.
Ballad Health launched the Center for Clinical Transformation & Outcomes Optimization in 2022 as a new department to harness shared learning and drive improvements across the system.
In the early 2000s, Bartlett Regional Hospital launched its Multi-Visit Program (MVP) to support the case management of vulnerable patients who were visiting the emergency department up to 20 times per month.
To reduce infant and maternal mortality rates, Baptist Health implemented programs with live nursing support.
UChicago Medicine has partnered with Artisight to deploy a smart hospital platform across operating rooms, patient rooms and post-anesthesia care units (PACUs), installing more than 1,800 devices systemwide.
USA Today published a column by AHA Board Chair Marc Boom, M.D., president and CEO of Houston Methodist, highlighting how hospitals and health systems continue to raise the bar and embrace innovation to advance patient safety.
To optimize the healing environment and minimize stress, distraction, annoyance and sleep disturbance, hospitals can take steps to reduce avoidable noise.