More than 330 hospitals and health systems across the three states are set to participate in the collaboration, which will focus on the following 11 types of inpatient harm:
- Adverse drug events
- Central line-associated bloodstream infections
- Clostridium difficile infections, including antibiotic stewardship
- Injury from falls and immobility
- Pressure ulcers
- Sepsis and septic shock
- Surgical site infections
- Venous thromboembolism
- Ventilator-associated events
- Readmissions
“WHA has partnered with Michigan and Illinois on improvement work in the past, so this work is a natural extension of existing relationships,” said Kelly Court, WHA’s chief quality officer. “We look forward to continuing our work on these important aspects of hospital care.”
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Participating hospitals will share best practices and resources to meet the goal of a 20 percent decrease in overall patient harm and a 12 percent reduction in readmissions from the 2014 baseline.
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