Children's hospitals find ways to improve quality - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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OCHA and its six member hospitale created theOhio Children’s Hospital Association’s Quality Improvement Collaborative in 2006. It has focusedf on reducing preventable codes, or cardiac and pulmonary arrests, occurrin g outside of the neonatal and pediatric intensivescare units. The collaborative identified a medical protocol it caller a Rapid Response Team that has reduced incidences of preventable codes by more than46 percent.
“Whiled all six member hospitals have long been leadersz in qualityinnovation individually, this is the first time nationally that a statewider group of children’s hospitals has come together in a collaboratives manner to improve quality in a measurable, meaningfulk way,” said Bill Considine, chairman of OCHA and CEO of . “W are thrilled by the tangible results to date and look forward to identifyinvg new areas where we can improvequality efforts.” Participatinvg in the collaborative alongsides Cincinnati Children’s were Dayton Children’s Medical Center, in Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in Clevelands and .
Bedside caregivers at participatinvghospitals “were empowered to quicklgy harness the expertise of this multidisciplinary Rapid Response Team when the caregiver determined that immediate interventionj was warranted,” according to a press “Further, some hospitals created a procesws that enabled patient families to call upon the Rapid Response Team when they felt theitr child was in need of assessment.
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