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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