Why:
Cynosure Health is once again thrilled to be supporting the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) with its two-year Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (HIIN) contract (with an optional third year based on performance), to continue efforts to reduce hospital-acquired conditions and readmissions.
Results/Intended Results:
The HRET HIIN will align, accelerate, and amplify the prior HRET HEN and Quality Improvement Network-Quality Improvement Organizations (QIN-QIO) successes to pursue the ambitious new goals of reducing all-cause inpatient harm by 20 percent and readmissions by 12 percent by 2019.
Approach:
HIIN provides technical assistance, educational opportunities, training, resources, and learning collaboratives in the following target areas to help achieve this goal:
- Adverse Drug Event (ADE)
- Airway Safety*
- Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI)
- Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI)
- Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI)*
- Culture of Safety*
- Diagnostic Errors*
- Injuries from Falls and Immobility
- Health Care Disparities*
- Iatrogenic Delirium*
- Malnutrition in the Inpatient Setting
- Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms* (such as VRE – Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus, CRE-Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae, and MRSA- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)
- Patient and Family Engagement (PFE)*
- Pressure Ulcers/Injuries (PrU)
- Radiation Exposure*
- Readmissions
- Sepsis*
- Surgical Site Infection (SSI)
- Venous Thromboembolism (VTE)
- Ventilator-Associated Event (VAE)
*denotes additional harm topics HIINs may consider
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