Ninety-nine hospitals from MHA and 109 hospitals from IHA have committed to participating in the project.
The partnership’s aim is to reduce preventable readmissions by 20 percent and the following hospital-acquired conditions by 40 percent in one year:
- Ventilator-associated events
- Sepsis
- Obstetrical adverse events
- Catheter-associated urinary tract infections
- Adverse drug events related to opioids, hypoglycemia and anticoagulants
- Central line-associated blood stream infections
- Injuries from falls
- Pressure ulcers
- Surgical site infections
- Venous thromboembolisms
Hospitals from both states participated in the first round of the HEN, and this project is being called HEN 2.0.
“HEN 2.0 gives our organizations the opportunity to unite geographic peers in Michigan and Illinois and share solutions that have been successful in rural, urban and suburban communities,” said Sam Watson, executive director of the MHA Keystone Center and senior vice president of patient safety and quality. “It also allows us to continue implementing innovations necessary to achieve the Partnership for Patients’ goals to prevent injuries, save lives and lower costs.”
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