HPI
clients are often recognized in professional journals
for their accomplishments.
Below are some examples.
Community
Health Network in Indianapolis, Indiana –
Community Health Network (CHN) is a leading not-for-profit
health system which consists of five hospitals, including
a dedicated heart hospital, urgent care centers, the
Indiana Surgery Center, primary care physician practices,
and nursing homes
Community
Health Network Reduces Deadly Infections Through
Culture of Reliability. Janet Jacobsen.
Quality Progress. American Society for
Quality. June 2008
At
CHN, mortality rates for Ventilator Associated
Pneumonia were nearly 60%. By using a combination
of specific evidenced based bundles of care
in combination with In the combination of “people
bundles” based on the set of safety habits
and practices developed with HPI and efforts
to build accountability for these behavior,
CHN achieved stunning results in reducing cases
of VAP. Four of the network’s critical
care or coronary care units have reported no
cases of VAP for at least two years, and one
unit has eliminated all cases since December
2003.
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Advocate
Health Care, Chicago, IL
Advocate Health Care is an integrated not-for-profit
health care delivery system in metropolitan Chicago
with eight hospitals with 3,500 beds, a home health
care company, more than 4,600 affiliated physicians,
including almost 2,000 in physician hospital organizations
(PHOs) and about 475 in three large medical groups.
Advocate's primary academic and teaching affiliation
is with the University of Illinois at Chicago Health
Sciences Center.
Can
Your Nurses Stop a Surgeon? Matthew Weinstock.
Hospitals & Health Networks. American
Hospital Association. September 2007 Click
here to read more..
Advocate
Health Care launched their work to create a
culture of safety that permeates the organization
in 2004. At Advocate the safety behaviors that
were established include the expectation that
all staff should speak up and stop an action
that they think could harm a patient or a co-worker
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Cincinnati
Children’s Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati,
OH
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center,
with 475-beds, and 15 outpatient sites, provides the
majority of inpatient services to children in its
eight-county primary service area and tertiary and
quartery care to children from across the United States
and the rest of the world.
Cincinnati
Children’s Hospital Medical Center: Transforming
Care for Children and Families. Maria T.
Britto, M.D., et al. Journal of Quality &
Safety in Healthcare. Vol 32. Number 10.
pp. 541 – 548.
In
2006, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical
Center (CCHMC) was awarded the American Hospital
Association-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize®.
This award recognized CCHMC’s strategic
efforts that focused on achieving the best and
safest medical and quality of life outcomes,
an exceptional patient and family experience
of care, and value through the integration of
a research focus and effective delivery system
design.
How
One Hospital is Cutting Serious Safety Events.
Lee Ann Runy. Hospitals & Health Networks.
American Hospital Association. September 2007
Click
here to read more..
Via
their multi year effort with HPI, CCHMC reduced
their serious safety events from an average
of 17 per year to 14 in the first year.
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