by Maya Labat | Jan 25, 2024 | HQIC Success Stories
In early 2023, the quality department at DeKalb Regional Medical Center (DRMC) – a 134-bed, full-service hospital in Fort Payne, Alabama–selected sepsis mortality as a performance improvement project. Although the sepsis bundle compliance rates were quite good as...
by Maya Labat | Dec 6, 2023 | HQIC Success Stories
An increased focus on antibiotic stewardship (ABS) began for Trego County-Lemke Memorial Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in WaKeeney, Kansas, about two years ago, shortly after the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) released a statewide...
by Maya Labat | Dec 6, 2023 | HQIC Success Stories
In November 2022, the CDC released Priorities for Hospital Core Element Implementation (Priorities) as supplemental guidance to help enhance the quality and impact of existing ASPs. The Priorities Table highlights highly effective implementation approaches and is...
by Maya Labat | Sep 22, 2023 | HQIC Success Stories
Intermountain Health reduced the number of opioid tablets prescribed to patients in acute pain by 3.8 million in 2018 and nearly 13 million cumulatively through June of 2023, reducing the risk of opioid dependency and misuse in Utah. In the early 2000s, the opioid...
by Maya Labat | Sep 22, 2023 | HQIC Success Stories
Lake Health District Hospital, a 24-bed critical access hospital in Lakeview, Oregon, implemented steps to improve the safe use of opioids in their facility. Alena Acklin, process and quality improvement coordinator, chose to focus on the Prescription Drug Monitoring...
by Maya Labat | Aug 11, 2023 | HQIC Success Stories
Mobile Infirmary in Mobile, Alabama, is the largest non-governmental hospital in Alabama, with 669 licensed beds and 14 beds at Saraland Freestanding Emergency Department. In early 2016, a multidisciplinary committee was initiated to focus on the sepsis core measure...
