{"title":"Executive rounding program improves communication, performance.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A patient safety executive rounding program at St. Charles Hospital, Port Jefferson, NY, has united staff and helped to identify a number of performance issues. The success of the program has even surprised top administrators who pushed to have it implemented. Each month, teams of executive staff and department heads make rounds through all areas of the hospital, talking with staff, identifying problem areas and noting best practices that could be used in other departments.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"10 8","pages":"94-6, 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26262828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Controlling blood sugar before surgery helps reduce infections, mortality rates.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hospitals should expand point-of-care testing programs for blood sugar levels for all patients--including as a pre-operating screening program for hyperglycemia--because testing costs are so low and the potential for quality improvement and cost savings are so high.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"10 8","pages":"90-3, 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26262827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NY health system reduces pressure sores with new protocols.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"10 7","pages":"73-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26221033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Baldridge award criteria structure encourages strategic innovation.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Guided by the criteria established for the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award, St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, MO, and Baptist Hospital, in Pensacola, FL, have regularly sustained industry leading successes in reduced employee turnover, increased patient satisfaction, improved outcomes, and financial stability over the last five years.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"10 7","pages":"82-3, 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26221036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cedars-Sinai's new call center improves physician referrals, customer service efficiency.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, is getting a boost in efficiency--and an increase in patient visits--by outsourcing its call center to Connextions Health, an Orlando-based information services company.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"10 7","pages":"78-82, 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26221035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patient tracking system used to reduce urinary tract infections.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reducing urinary tract infections at hospitals is a very attainable goal if health care professionals have the data, track patients with catheters or those susceptible to infections and make several process improvements. Intermountain Healthcare is developing a urinary catheter duration program that will be linked with its electronic medical record system to identify patients who may not initially need catheters or those who could have them removed.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"10 7","pages":"77-8, 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26221034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New York hospitals cut central line infections in half.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"10 6","pages":"61-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26151790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EMRs enlisted in the quest to reduce hospital-acquired infections.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intermountain Healthcare, a 21-hospital integrated health care delivery system based in Salt Lake City, is expanding its electronic medical record system to reduce the rate of hospital-acquired infections with the help of a dollars 2 million grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"10 6","pages":"70-1, 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26151792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Christiana reduces surgical site infections with antimicrobial prophylaxis protocol.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Christiana Care Health System is one of a growing number of hospital organizations to join a national effort to reduce surgical site infections (SSIs), a preventable medical error that kills an estimated 15,000 patients annually. By implementing process improvements to reduce SSIs, hospitals also could save up to dollars 50,000 per patient who develop infections.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"10 6","pages":"67-70, 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26151791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}