Case Studies
The 黑料正能量 Association produces case studies on its member organizations across a wide range of health-care topics.
What is it?
The Diabetes Health and Wellness Institute (DHWI) seeks to improve the management of diabetes and other chronic diseases and improve overall health and wellness outcomes in a vulnerable, underserved population.
What is it?
The Prenatal Entry Program (PEP) exists to incentivize entry for low-income families to enroll in prenatal care. Patients living at 200 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) are eligible for the full amount of available funding ($500) to put toward OB initiation fees. Patients鈥
What is it?
The Building a Healthy Community initiative (the Initiative) emerged in 2009 from Bon Secours Health System鈥檚 Strategic Quality Plan, one of its goals being, 鈥淧artner with our communities to co-create a more humane world, improve health, and model social justice.鈥 Leaders at Bon鈥
What is it?
The program鈥檚 primary goal is to facilitate access to care at the right time and in the right place. The Tidelands Community Care Network (TCCN) uses a dual approach of providing care coordination and patient navigation services while also working with community partners to address鈥
What is it?
The Memorial Hermann Mobile Dental Program consists of three 40-foot vans on rotation schedules at nine Memorial Hermann school-based health center sites. The goal of the program is to provide continuity dental care to uninsured children, serving as their dental home. This is鈥
Administration of medications is one of the most error-prone stages in the medication use process and the least likely to be intercepted. Strategies to enhance safety of medication include implementing bar code medication administration (BCMA) technology. The goal was to fully implement BCMA at the鈥
This academic medical center developed and implemented a program to improve outcomes and reduce readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). To address the readmissions penalty for COPD, the University of Chicago Medical Center formed a multidisciplinary working鈥
The blood bank relocated to a new hospital facility while the labor and delivery (L&D) unit remained in the older facility, which was a 10- to 12-minute walk on the same hospital campus. The pneumatic tube system was the primary blood product transport method; however, the tube system was鈥
Senior leadership at Streamwood Behavioral Healthcare System assembled an improvement team to use a Six Sigma approach to improve performance systematically, while reducing restrictive measures. The project highlights the systematic and innovative approach that the team took to push below the鈥
Outpatient registration at OSF Center for Health required patients to stand in line for extended periods, and some patients had to wait more than seven minutes on occasion. This long waiting time was difficult for some of the more elderly patients. The goal was to reduce wait times, increase鈥