As reported on Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare Website
A collaborative effort among healthcare providers and leaders to make the state of Ohio, one of the safest places in the country for healthcare has led to more than $12.8 million in healthcare savings. This effort has also led to more than nine hundred fewer patient days spent in the hospital and nearly 3,600 fewer adverse drug events and infections in children.
This effort is called, The Solutions for Patient Safety initiative.The goal of the partnership is to improve quality and reduce costs of healthcare statewide. It was launched in January 2009 and funded with a $1.5 million investment from the Cardinal Health Foundation. In addition this partnership includes the Ohio Business Roundtable, the Central Ohio Hospital Council, the Ohio Hospital Association, the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association and twenty five hospitals throughout the state.
“Cardinal Health is proud to be a founding sponsor and ongoing partner in this groundbreaking initiative that has and will continue to save lives – not only throughout Ohio, but across the nation,” said George S. Barrett, chairman and CEO, Cardinal Health. “The impressive results of the Solutions for Patient Safety initiative prove that true collaboration among healthcare leaders and clinicians can create meaningful transformation in patient care.”
Ohio’s eight children’s hospitals and 17 Central Ohio hospitals worked to implement specific programs to reduce healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and medication errors. Through their work, the hospitals identified data collection protocols and best practice processes that were shared among the institutions and will also be shared with interested outside organizations in Ohio and nationwide.
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