Quality Improvement

Treatment of Upper Respiratory Infections in Take Care Clinics Exceeds National Quality Benchmarks

Take Care Health Systems, a subsidiary of Walgreens and the nation's largest manager of convenient care clinics and worksite health and wellness centers, today announced that an analysis of de-identified data collected through the company's electronic medical record (EMR) ...More
October 4, 2010
Posted in News
Building a Safer Unit: Using Proven Methodologies to Plan and Implement Change

Taking a vision for systemic change and turning it into reality is like building a home. Once the plans are decided upon, a foundation and framework must be constructed in order for the house to stand on its own. Similarly, when implementing sustained, system-wide change ...More
October 1, 2010
Posted in Articles
Report Shows Improvements on Pneumonia, Surgical Care But Not on Antibiotic Prophylaxis

Accredited hospitals in the United States are providing higher-quality, evidence-based care for pneumonia and surgery, among other conditions according to "Improving America’s Hospitals: The Joint Commission’s Report on Quality and Safety 2010." The report presents ...More
September 22, 2010
Posted in News
CareFusion, Blue Cross/Blue Shield Create Hospital Quality Initiative to Help Eliminate HAIs

CareFusion and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois today announced that 23 hospitals have formed the Illinois Hospital Quality Initiative (IHQI), a partnership created to improve clinical outcomes and cut health care costs by reducing health care-associated infections ...More
September 15, 2010
Posted in News
New Toolkit Provides Comprehensive Resource to Minimize CLABSIs

Amerinet Inc., a healthcare group purchasing organization (GPO), announces the addition of a central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) toolkit to its Amerinet Quality Solutions program. "Our goal was to build toolkits that would provide our members with ...More
September 13, 2010
Posted in News
Joint Commission Launches Targeted Solutions Tool

For the first time, Joint Commission-accredited hospitals have access to an interactive tool that simplifies the process for solving the most persistent healthcare quality and safety problems that exist within the U.S. healthcare system. The Targeted Solutions Tool™ (TST), ...More
September 13, 2010
Posted in News, Hand Hygiene
National Quality Colloquium Offers Patient Safety Training

The Ninth National Quality Colloquium is a hybrid conference and Internet event on patient safety, healthcare quality enhancement and medical errors reduction for healthcare executives, clinicians and patient-care staff. ...More
July 19, 2010
Posted in News
Study on Social Practices Says Manufacturers Can Help Lead Quality, Safety Efforts

A new VHA whitepaper released today by Medline Industries, Inc. details how the company used observational studies and context-based design to build human factors and social behaviors into its redesigned Foley catheter management tray. ...More
July 19, 2010
Posted in News
Joint Commission May Refine Tracer Methodology

The Joint Commission says it will examine ways to refine its tracer methodology by integrating patient-care tracers and patient system tracers to thoroughly evaluate selected high risk or problem-prone processes, including cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of medical ...More
July 7, 2010
Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization
Patient Centric Healthcare and Infection Prevention

What kind of leader will Dr. Donald Berwick be, if he becomes the new administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)? ...More
July 7, 2010
Posted in Blog