MHA Keystone Collaboratives

MHA Keystone Initiatives

Cheboygan Memorial Hospital (CMH) is now participating in recently expanded statewide patient safety collaboratives focused on protecting mothers, newborns and emergency patients. The patient safety collaboratives, coordinated by the Michigan Health & Hospital Association (MHA) Keystone Center for Patient Safety & Quality, are known as MHA Keystone: Emergency Room (ER) and MHA Keystone: Obstetrics (OB). MHA Keystone: ER seeks to prevent patient harm in hospital emergency rooms by improving safety, reducing overcrowding, and treating sepsis (blood poisoning) in the early stages.

Seventy-one hospitals are now participating in this statewide initiative through interventions that will help ensure that the most critically ill patients receive treatment first and reduce the likelihood that a patient will leave a hospital before receiving appropriate care. MHA Keystone: OB seeks to prevent harm to mothers giving birth and their newborn babies. Sixty-seven Michigan hospitals are now participating in the MHA Keystone: OB collaborative, which primarily focuses on timely interventions for elective induction on labor, coordinating a safe progression of labor, and appropriate responses to fetal distress. The interventions for MHA Keystone: OB are improving patient safety through influencing attitudes and practices.

"Patient safety and quality is at the very center of what we do," said Shari Schult, Chief Nursing Officer and Executive Director of Patient Care at CMH. "Our participation in MHA Keystone : ER and MHA Keystone: OB initiatives will further ensure our patients receive the safest, highest quality care, and that both patient and staff satisfaction will increase."

Both initiatives began as pilot projects in the fall of 2008 and have since incorporated the lessons learned through their early stages. These collaboratives, like all coordinated by the MHA Keystone Center, are positioned for success as a result of the center's ability to bring large numbers of hospitals together in a single improvement initiative, allowing unprecedented collaboration and expedited results. Participation in this new collaboration is the latest in patient safety and quality efforts already under way at CMH, including Keystone Surgical Collaborative and Keystone Healthcare Acquired Infection Collaborative.

 "Since the founding of the MHA Keystone Center by Michigan hospitals in 2003, the state's dedicated health care professionals have established themselves as leaders in delivering safe, effective and the highest quality health care," said MHA President Spencer Johnson. "Nearly every Michigan hospital has participated in one or more collaboratives sharing evidence-based best practices to prevent infections, reduce surgery complications and hospital inpatient days, improve patient safety, reduce health care costs and establish a culture of safety."

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