Hospital Insights HOSPITAL IMPROVEMENT COLLABORATIONS
OHA exists to collaborate with member hospitals Spring 2017 and health systems to ensure a healthy Ohio. Hospital Insights HOSPITAL IMPROVEMENT COLLABORATIONS OVERVIEW OHA Quality Programs Save Lives, Costs 5 YEAR FOCUS AREAS TO REDUCE HEALTH with Focus on Prevention, Care Transition CARE ACQUIRED The Ohio Hospital Association's quality programs team collaborated with CONDITIONS nearly 100 Ohio hospitals plus community partners from 2012 to 2016 • Acute kidney injury improving hospital health care outcomes for patients and saving an estimated • Adverse drug events— $8.5 billion (based on Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 2016 calculator) in opioids, anticoagulants, and costs statewide by preventing more than 1.9 million health care acquired hypoglycemic agent conditions. • Central line-associated blood stream infections With support of federal contracts, OHA's encounters. Those encounters comprise 24.9 health care improvement campaign focused million outpatient, 1.5 million inpatient and • Catheter-associated urinary tract on infection prevention and transitions of 6 million treated and released from infections patient care projects. Participating hospitals emergency departments. • Clostridium difficile (C.diff) included small, rural and critical access Patients traveled to Ohio for health care in • Culture of safety—integration of hospitals, urban and large teaching 2015 from all 50 states, the District of patient and worker safety institutions and one long-term acute care Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin hospital. Islands and numerous countries abroad. • Injury from falls and immobility As the nation’s first state hospital Today, through OHA’s Institute for Health • Pressure ulcers association, OHA was one of the first to focus Innovation, the association leverages our • Obstetric trauma member hospitals, staff and resources on long-standing legacy of quality improvement improving health care quality.
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