A report from the Michigan Health & Hospital Association shows that more than 100 lives have been saved through patient safety interventions aimed at reducing deaths resulting from central line-associated bloodstream infections and ventilator-associated pneumonia.
According to the MHA report, the association's Keystone: ICU patient safety collaborative to reduce CLABSI resulted in 36 lives saved and more than $6.4 million in net savings from March 2010-March 2011. In addition, the collaborative resulted in 79 lives saved and a net savings of $2.2 million by reducing the number of patients experiencing VAP in the same period. Other notable findings include the following:
• Hospitals participating in MHA's Keystone: Hospital-associated Infection collaborative have instituted a catheter-associated urinary tract infection prevention intervention that translated to a 30 percent improvement in appropriate use from Jan. 2007-Dec. 2010.
• As a result of MHA's Keystone: Emergency Room collaborative, participating hospitals have experienced a 29 percent decline in the rate of patients who left the emergency room without being seen from May 2010-May 2011.
• Michigan hospitals were instrumental in adding more than 319,000 people to the Michigan Organ Donor Registry in 2010.
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According to the MHA report, the association's Keystone: ICU patient safety collaborative to reduce CLABSI resulted in 36 lives saved and more than $6.4 million in net savings from March 2010-March 2011. In addition, the collaborative resulted in 79 lives saved and a net savings of $2.2 million by reducing the number of patients experiencing VAP in the same period. Other notable findings include the following:
• Hospitals participating in MHA's Keystone: Hospital-associated Infection collaborative have instituted a catheter-associated urinary tract infection prevention intervention that translated to a 30 percent improvement in appropriate use from Jan. 2007-Dec. 2010.
• As a result of MHA's Keystone: Emergency Room collaborative, participating hospitals have experienced a 29 percent decline in the rate of patients who left the emergency room without being seen from May 2010-May 2011.
• Michigan hospitals were instrumental in adding more than 319,000 people to the Michigan Organ Donor Registry in 2010.
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