In conjunction with National Patient Safety Week — March 13 to 19 — the Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality has released its fifth annual Quality Excellence Achievement Awards Compendium of projects.
In 2015, dozens of hospitals from across Illinois submitted synopses of innovative projects designed to enhance patient care and improve hospital operations. This year's compendium showcases projects that range from improving treatment of sepsis, reducing central line-associated bloodstream infections and preventing venous thromboembolism to decreasing catheter-associated urinary tract infections, increasing the availability of palliative care and reducing readmissions in patients with pneumonia, among others. These best practices also will be featured nationally on the American Hospital Association's Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence website.
Projects included in the compendium were submitted by the following hospitals and health systems:
- AdvocateIllinoisMasonicMedicalCenter — Chicago
- AMITA Health — Arlington Heights
- AMITA Health — Hinsdale
- AMITA Health St. Alexius Medical Center — Hoffman Estates
- AndersonHospital — Maryville
- Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
- BlessingHospital — Quincy
- CarleFoundationHospital — Urbana
- Centegra Health System — Crystal Lake
- Cook CountyHealth & Hospitals System — Chicago
- EdwardHospital — Naperville
- Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare — Naperville
- FHNMemorialHospital — Freeport
- GibsonAreaHospital & Health Services — GibsonCity
- GrahamHospital — Canton
- Harrisburg (Ill.) MedicalCenter
- Hospital Sisters Health System — Springfield
- HSHS St.Elizabeth's Hospital — Belleville
- HSHS St.FrancisHospital — Litchfield
- HSHSSt. John'sHospital — Springfield
- HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital — Highland
- HSHS St. Mary's Hospital — Decatur
- HSHS St. Mary's Hospital — Streator
- IllinoisValleyCommunityHospital — Peru
- KatherineShawBetheaHospital — Dixon
- KishHealth, part of Northwestern Medicine — DeKalb
- MacNealHospital — Berwyn
- McDonoughDistrictHospital — Macomb
- Memorial Health System — Springfield
- Memorial Health System, AbrahamLincolnMemorialHospital — Lincoln
- Memorial Health System, PassavantAreaHospital — Jacksonville
- Memorial Health System, Taylorville (Ill.) MemorialHospital
- Mount SinaiHospital — Chicago
- NorthwestCommunityHospital — Arlington Heights
- NorwegianAmericanHospital — Chicago
- OSF Institute of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation — Peoria
- OSF SaintAnthonyMedicalCenter — Rockford
- PresenceHolyFamilyMedicalCenter — Des Plaines
- PresenceMercyMedicalCenter — Aurora
- PresenceResurrectionMedicalCenter — Chicago
- Presence SaintJosephHospital — Chicago
- Presence SaintJosephHospital — Elgin
- Presence Saints Mary and ElizabethMedicalCenter, Saint Mary Campus — Chicago
- Red Bud (Ill.) RegionalHospital
- RoselandCommunityHospital — Chicago
- RushUniversityMedicalCenter — Chicago
- Silver Cross Hospital — New Lenox
- Sinai Health System — Chicago
- Streamwood (Ill.) Behavioral Healthcare System
- University of ChicagoMedicalCenter
IHA is also announcing its call for entries for the sixth annual Quality Excellence Achievement Awards. IHA honors one project in the following categories: Healthcare System, Rural/Critical Access Hospital, UrbanHospital and Palliative Care. Applications will be accepted April 13 through May 31.