The Michigan Health & Hospital Association has released its annual patient safety and quality report, which indicates hospitals' efforts have led to significant improvements in quality and healthcare costs.
MHA's quality improvement efforts are driven by three key components: the MHA Keystone Center, the MHA Patient Safety Organizations and MHA's online data transparency search engine. The association's three-pronged effort has led to the following improvements in 2012:
• Hospitals participating in MHA's emergency room project achieved an 18.5 percent decline in the number of patients who left without being seen from May 2010 to March 2012.
• Bundled interventions have helped participating hospitals achieve a 49 percent decrease in urinary catheter use from January 2007 to March 2012.
• Michigan hospitals have reduced central line infections from a high of 410 infections in 2004 to 173 in 2011.
• Similarly, Michigan hospitals reduced ventilator-associated pneumonia from a high of 702 cases in 2005 to 209 in 2011.
• Overall compliance to sepsis care increased from 19.7 percent in 2011 Q2 to 36 percent in 2012 Q2.
MHA's quality improvement efforts are driven by three key components: the MHA Keystone Center, the MHA Patient Safety Organizations and MHA's online data transparency search engine. The association's three-pronged effort has led to the following improvements in 2012:
• Hospitals participating in MHA's emergency room project achieved an 18.5 percent decline in the number of patients who left without being seen from May 2010 to March 2012.
• Bundled interventions have helped participating hospitals achieve a 49 percent decrease in urinary catheter use from January 2007 to March 2012.
• Michigan hospitals have reduced central line infections from a high of 410 infections in 2004 to 173 in 2011.
• Similarly, Michigan hospitals reduced ventilator-associated pneumonia from a high of 702 cases in 2005 to 209 in 2011.
• Overall compliance to sepsis care increased from 19.7 percent in 2011 Q2 to 36 percent in 2012 Q2.
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