Listed below are the MHA Initiatives for 2014/2015. There are numerous opportunities throughout these initiatives for MAHA to assist MHA in meeting the goals of these initiatives. For continuing information on these items, the Monday Report routinely reports on the progress on each specific heading.
MHA Keystone Center (PFE)
Of particular importance to all MAHA is MHA’s Patient and Family Engagement (PFE) Initiative is a patient and family centered care approach to the planning, delivery and evaluation of healthcare grounded in mutually beneficial partnerships among providers, patients and families. It redefines the relationships in healthcare.
Volunteers can help by learning what each of their hospitals is doing with patient and family engagement helping to identify potential patient and family advisors.
MHA KEYSTONE CENTER COLLABORATIVES/INITIATIVES
Explanation:
The MHA Keystone Center operates projects focused on care transitions, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, emergency rooms, intensive care units, obstetrics, safe care, sepsis and surgery. The center is also a co-leader in three national projects aimed at eliminating specific hospital-associated infections and serves as a Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Network.
MHA Keystone: Care Transitions
Michigan hospitals and community partners are working collaboratively to ensure that all patients receive the safest, highest-quality care possible when transitioning from one healthcare setting or provider to another.
MHA Keystone: Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI
Since 2007, Michigan hospitals have implemented evidence-based interventions to reduce CAUTIs through the MHA Keystone: CAUTI (formerly MHA Keystone: Hospital-associated Infection) collaborative.
MHA Keystone: Emergency Room (ER)
MHA Keystone: ER seeks to prevent harm to emergency patients by improving safety practices and attitudes, reducing boarding/overcrowding and wait times, and supporting the early treatment of sepsis.
MHA Keystone: Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
MHA Keystone: ICU seeks to reduce the incidence of central-line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) and ventilator-associated pneumonia in participating ICUs.
MHA Keystone: Obstetrics (OB)
MHA Keystone: OB focuses on eliminating preventable harm to mothers giving birth and their newborn babies in Michigan hospitals.
MHA Keystone: Safe Care
MHA Keystone: Safe Care seeks to eliminate adverse drug events, falls, pressure ulcers, poor care transitions and venous thromboembolism.
MHA Keystone: Sepsis
MHA Keystone: Sepsis is a joint initiative between MHA Keystone: ER and MHA Keystone: ICU teams to identify and treat sepsis using Early Goal- directed Therapy.
MHA Keystone: Surgery
MHA Keystone: Surgery focuses on eliminating surgical-site infections, preventing defects in care (including wrong-site surgery and retained foreign objects), eliminating mislabeled specimens and improving the safety and teamwork climate.
MHA Keystone: Hospital Engagement Network (HEN)
The MHA Keystone Center is one of 26 state, regional, national and hospital system organizations to become a HEN to identify, share and implement best practices aimed at reducing preventable hospital-acquired conditions.
On the CUSP: Stop Bloodstream Infection (BSI)
On the CUSP: Stop BSI seeks to reduce the average rate of CLABSIs from the national average (five infections per 1,000 central-line days) by 80 percent using the MHA Keystone: ICU model.
On the CUSP: Stop Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI)
On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI seeks to reduce CAUTI rates in participating intensive care units and other clinical units by an average of 25 percent over two years using the MHA Keystone: HAI Model.
CUSP for Mechanically-ventilated Patients – Ventilator-associated Pneumonia (CUSP 4 MVP – VAP)
In September 2013, the MHA Keystone Center was named a subcontractor as part of a three-year contract awarded by the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality to reduce patients’ risk of VACs and VAP in hospitals nationwide using interventions proven effective in Michigan.
Gift of Life Michigan Partnership
The MHA Keystone Center partners with Gift of Life Michigan to promote events to raise awareness about the importance of organ donation and transplantation.