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Reducing Infection Rates:
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s “100,000 Lives Campaign"

The “100,000 Lives Campaign” is a voluntary, nation-wide initiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), launched in December 2004 by Dr. Donald Berwick. The Campaign objective is to enlist and encourage thousands of U.S. hospitals to implement changes in care proven to prevent avoidable deaths.

St. John’s has stepped up to the plate, volunteering to implement changes that will save lives.

There are six evidence-based quality improvement changes at the core of the Campaign. To participate, hospitals have to commit to working on at least one of the six. St. John’s is currently working on all six change initiatives.

The Campaign’s Change Initiatives

  • Deploy Rapid Response Teams.
    Prevent death in patients who are progressively failing outside the ICU by implementing Rapid Response Teams.     

  • Deliver Reliable, Evidence-Based Care for Acute Myocardial Infarction.
    Prevent deaths among patients hospitalized for AMI by ensuring the reliable delivery of evidence-based care.

  • Prevent Adverse Drug Events.
    Prevent deaths by implementing medication reconciliation procedures.

  • Prevent Central Line Infections.
    Prevent deaths by implementing a set of interventions to reduce catheter infection rates.

  • Prevent Surgical Site Infections.
    Prevent deaths by implementing a reliable set of interventions that help choose and appropriately time perioperative antibiotics.

  • Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia.
    Prevent deaths by implementing a set of interventions known as the “ventilator bundle.”

    IHI’s “100,000 Lives Campaign” is one of the many ways St. John’s is moving forward with a system-wide commitment to making quality improvements and improving patient care.

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