Quality and Safety
OHA has been a leading force in efforts to improve health care quality, patient safety and satisfaction in Ohio and aims to lead the nation in this important arena.
OHA's quality efforts are overseen by its Quality Institute of the Research and Educational Foundation.
Mission: To drive transformational change in the area of quality and safety in Ohio hospitals and affiliated providers.
Stated Goals:
Many Ohio hospitals participate in one of four regional quality collaboratives Hospitals also have the opportunity to participate in quality and patient safety improvement projects targeting specific issues such as reducing infections through the Ohio Patient Safety Institute, an organization OHA helped to establish.
Northeast Ohio Hospitals Improve Heart, Pneumonia and Surgical Care
July 15, 2010:
Thirty-four northeast Ohio hospitals have shown dramatic progress in improving health care quality including:
- a 7.6% improvement in providing all recommended care to pneumonia patients;
- a 13% improvement in providing all recommended care to heart failure patients;
- a 5.9% improvement in providing all recommended care to heart attack patients; and
- a 13.9% improvement in providing all recommended care to surgical patients.
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