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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