Accelerating Best Care in Pennsylvania: the Hazleton General Hospital experience.

Publication/Presentation Date

7-1-2008

Abstract

Hazleton General Hospital (HGH) was 1 of 2 rural area community hospitals selected to participate in Accelerating Best Care in Pennsylvania, a demonstration project conducted by Baylor University and Jefferson Medical College. This paper describes how a project team from HGH succeeded in learning and applying a rapid-cycle QI methodology that was developed for a large, academic health care system. The 5 projects undertaken for the demonstration included: heart failure discharge instructions, surgical antibiotic prophylaxis, care of the stroke patient, pneumonia care-administering antibiotic within 4 hours, and pneumococcal vaccine administration. The project teams achieved 100% compliance by the end of the initial measurement period. The program boosted QI at HGH and has been instrumental in the facility's continued performance improvement on CMS core measures.

Volume

23

Issue

4

First Page

259

Last Page

265

ISSN

1062-8606

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

PubMedID

18658098

Department(s)

Department of Medicine

Document Type

Article

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