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Solutions for Patient Safety – Launched in 2009, Solutions for Patient Safety was founded by a group of Ohio Children’s Hospitals to improve quality and reduce costs. The partnership has realized significant results through its initial efforts: a 60 percent reduction in surgical site infections in designated cardiac, neurosurgery and orthopedic procedures and a 40 percent reduction in overall adverse drug events. These efforts have saved 7,700 children from unnecessary harm and avoided $11.8 million in unnecessary health care costs. These initial successes were translated into a national collaboration of over 70 children’s hospitals (including the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein), all working together to eliminate preventable harm to children. Specific healthcare associated conditions focused on by the collaborative and the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein include: surgical site infections, central line-associated blood stream infections, readmissions, falls, pressure ulcers, adverse drug events, obstetrical adverse events, ventilator associated pneumonia and catheter associated urinary tract infections.
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Institute for Patient and Family Centered Care - a non-profit organization founded in 1992, takes pride in providing essential leadership to advance the understanding and practice of patient- and family-centered care. By promoting collaborative, empowering relationships among patients, families, and health care professionals, IPFCC facilitates patient- and family-centered change in all settings where individuals and families receive care and support. IPFCC also serves as a central resource for policy makers, administrators, program planners, direct service providers, educators of health care professionals, researchers, design professionals, and patient and family leaders.
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Institute for Healthcare Improvement - a leading, globally recognized not-for-profit health care improvement organization that has been applying evidence-based quality improvement methods to meet current and future health care challenges for more than 30 years. Providing methods, tools, and resources to make care better, safer, and more equitable; convenes experts to enable knowledge sharing and peer-learning; and advises health systems and hospitals of all sizes in improving their systems and outcomes at scale.