Case Studies
The 黑料正能量 Association produces case studies on its member organizations across a wide range of health-care topics.
Based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Gundersen Health System is an integrated tertiary referral center serving 19 counties in western Wisconsin, southeast Minnesota and Iowa. Its telehealth service lines include adult and pediatric allergies; asthma and immunology; bariatric survey; behavioral health;鈥
Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, there are currently 12 regional and two national telehealth resource centers across the country. Their overarching mission is to meet the鈥
An integrated health system headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Avera Health serves patients in an area of more than 545,000 square miles throughout South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota. Its telehealth program, Avera eCare, partners with clinics, independent hospitals鈥
In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA Rural Development grant for more than $450,000 to create the Southern Illinois Telemedicine Initiative. The goal is to improve access and quality of care to seven rural hospitals, including four鈥
Mercy, a large Catholic health care system, began its telehealth initiatives with an eICU program in 2006. In 2015, the health system opened a four-story, $54 million virtual care center with 330 employees. This facility includes an eICU, which connects with 30 ICUs in seven states, and telestroke鈥
Providence St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Montana, is working with community stakeholders, including the Missoula City-County Health Department and school district, to spread CATCH, a Coordinated Approach to Child Health. CATCH is a school-based program that targets individual behavior change,鈥
Bassett Medical Center, a 180-bed hospital in Cooperstown, New York, has implemented and sustained a safety huddle program. According to Bassett leadership, 鈥淢any issues raised at the safety huddle lend themselves to rapid-cycle improvement methodology; several have resulted in鈥
Children's Hospital Colorado launched a fun, hospital-wide hand hygiene challenge called 鈥淕erm Crusher鈥 over a four-week period in the summer of 2015. In this challenge, twelve departmental teams competed to achieve the best hand hygiene compliance.
Meritus Health's replacement hospital, Meritus Medical Center, opened five years ago in Washington County, Md., to provide hospital and health care services to residents of Maryland and the surrounding region. MMC deployed an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach for the prevention of SSIs or鈥
Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013, TeamHealth Hospital Medicine began providing the facility's hospital medicine staffing, clinical leadership and performance management services with a goal of decreasing length of stay and improving鈥