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Janice C Simmons

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PubMed2002

Highlighting award-winning quality initiatives.

Recent award-winning hospitals and health systems share insights into their programs and initiatives that promote quality of care. While these programs address vast and different areas--using ACE inhibitors, expanding community services, providing mental health support, reducing nosocomial pneumonia, and enhancing patient safety--they all have one thing in common: Their work represent weeks, years, and even decades of extraordinary vision, planning, and just plain hard work to successfully provide quality care to patients and communities.

Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors↗
PubMed2002

Promoting new ways to provide quality care and service in the emergency department.

Today hospital emergency departments are likely to find themselves filled with more patients than ever before. Sometimes, they may have to close their doors temporarily and divert patients to other facilities. However, many hospitals are starting to acknowledge that solutions to ED problems must be initiated systemwide. This means improving staff scheduling, incorporating new information management systems, implementing bedside registration, rethinking triage procedures, communicating better with other hospitals, reviewing patient satisfaction, and improving the way patients are discharged. The results can be improved quality of care--and more satisfied patients.

Ambulances↗
PubMed2002

Using Six Sigma to make a difference in health care quality.

For years, the health care industry has borrowed ideas and initiatives from other industries to promote and enhance quality. The most recent idea to capture the interest of many in the health care field has been Six Sigma, which has been used and refined during the past two decades by top corporations. This issue looks at how five organizations are using the Six Sigma management process--with its reliance on data, statistical analysis, and change--to enhance quality.

Benchmarking↗
PubMed2002

Focusing on quality and change in intensive care units.

Of the 5 million patients who will be admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) this year, about 10% will die and many will incur preventable adverse events. However, lessons learned through recent initiatives across the country--emphasizing teamwork, leadership, technology, data, outcomes, and best practices--could spell great changes ahead for all ICUs. These initiatives range from the simple and inexpensive (such as healthcare professionals washing their hands after patient encounters or elevating the heads of patients using mechanical ventilators) to the use of electronic monitoring. But all require commitments--by everyone from the people working day-to-day in the ICU to those in charge of healthcare facilities--to make those changes and provide quality care.

Efficiency, Organizational↗