Case Studies
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Fletcher Allen Health Care's Community Benefit CommitteeBurlington, VT
This report highlights nearly 80 evidence-based disease and injury prevention programs. These program ideas can be scaled and applied to other communities to improve population health.
Lean transformation means improved patient care, employee satisfaction and reduced costs as MSHA incorporates it in its organizational culture. Mountain States Health Alliance, formed in 1998, is a large health care system in northwest Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina. The network…
The Florida Hospital Association highlights its quality improvement initiatives with several reports. It starts with Five Years of Quality, a narrative of improvement strategies implemented in Florida hospitals. Readers can also discover other achievements of the FHA in the reports below.…
Goal-Reduce and prevent medical errors by adopting best practices and procedures. The Patient Safety Organization of Florida is jointly managed by the Floriday Hospital Association and the South Florida Hospital & Healthcare Association. The two organizations teamed with the ECRI Institute, an…
Goal-Save lives, reduce suffering and lower costs related to complications of surgery.
The Collaborative on Reducing Hospital Readmissions GoalUnderstand readmission causes and adopt practices to significantly reduce the number of patients returning to the hospital after discharge, focusing on those most likely to be readmitted: patients experiencing heart failure, heart attack,…
Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Network GoalsReduce patient harm by 40 percent and hospital readmissions by 20 percent in three years. Reduce early elective deliveries – scheduled births before 39 weeks – to fewer than 3 percent percent of all Florida births by 2013.
On the Cusp Initiative GoalReduce the occurrence of two frequent hospital-acquired infections—urinary tract and bloodstream—while improving hospital culture and increasing adoption of safety practices. A related initiative, the Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative, targeted…
This report highlights five years of quality improvement among Florida hospitals. It highlights 'Florida Firsts,' a list of quality initiatives first implemented in Florida.