Case Studies
Wishard Health ServicesIndianapolis, IN293 Beds
New York-Presbyterian HospitalNew York, NY2,264 Beds
Children's Mercy Hospitals & ClinicsKansas City, MO265 Beds
In 2006, Ascension Health, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health care system, chose seven pilots site with established palliative care programs to test improvements. The goal of the initiative was to spread leading strategies across the continuum of care throughout the system. An…
The Respecting Choices' advance care planning program, developed in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is a multi-faceted approach that depends on the re-design of the health care system in 4 domains.
AIM focuses care on people with advanced illness, which often involves more than one chronic diagnosis such as cancer, heart failure, or dementia. Their general health is declining and their care needs are increasing, as are unwanted emergency visits and hospitalizations. AIM helps them anticipate…
The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the difference between expected and actual graft rejections/patient expirations rates. SUNY Donstate, in partnership wtih Metrompolitan Jewish Health System's long-term home health care program created the post…
Falls prevention monitoring led to a closer look at Mercy Medical Center's acute inpatient rehabilitation population. It was noted that 90 percent of patients who fell in December 2009 were cerebral vascular accident patients. Twenty-two percent of the patients who fell had left-sided CVAs, 67…
Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed at Mercy Medical Center. The functional capacity of the ED for 'treat and release' patients was impaired, post-anesthesia recovery room flow was adversely affected, and patient and staff satisfaction…