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Patient Safety is Number One

Ask just about anyone at Cincinnati Children’s what is most important and you’re likely to get the same answer – safety! There is nothing that we do that is more important than providing a safe environment for our patients and families. “Too much of a good thing” does not apply to safety in a hospital

By: Social Media Team | 1

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IBD Collaboration Continues to Gain Traction

One of the exciting things about my role at Cincinnati Children’s is being part of initiatives that are truly changing the way we approach healthcare and improve the quality of life for children and their families. A great example is the work underway on inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, that is having significant impacts on

By: Peter Margolis | 1

Health Care Quality

Collaboration Advances Preemie Care and Lowers Costs

Not long ago, hospitals worked independently and information about medical advances in patient care was shared only in professional journals or at medical conferences. Today, however, evidence-based collaboration is the name of the quality improvement game that’s advancing child health and reducing its related costs – as proven once again by the Ohio Perinatal Quality

By: Barbara Rose RN MPH | 1

Health Care Quality

Lessons from an aircraft carrier

One of the defining elements of our culture at Cincinnati Children’s is a nearly fanatical focus on safety. While we’re proud of our record and the expertise we’ve developed over the years, we also believe we can learn from others. For several years, I’ve been told by safety experts that aircraft carriers are a great

By: Steve Muething | 2

Health Care Quality

‘Best choice’ Berwick named head of CMS

We’re pleased to write that today the right person has been appointed head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and will be thrust into the middle of the efforts to reshape health care in the United States. Pediatrician Donald Berwick, MD, a leading advocate of patient safety and quality improvement in health care, became

Health Care Quality

Ohio Perinatal Quality Collaborative Improves Infant Health, Controls Costs

Statewide Program Significantly Reduces Inappropriate Scheduling of Births before 39 Weeks Cincinnati Children’s News Release A statewide Ohio program significantly reduced the monthly rate of inappropriately scheduled births before 39 weeks gestation, helping to avoid expensive neonatal intensive care unit admissions and decrease the risk of infant deaths, according to two studies by the Ohio

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Health Care Quality

Overcoming Unstable Insurance Coverage for Ohio Kids with Special Health Care Needs

A third of Ohio children with special health care needs have unstable or inadequate insurance coverage despite the fact that they may qualify for government health programs. Our Child Policy Research Center has analyzed data about Ohio children with special health care needs (CSHCN). Some 445,200 children, or 16.2 percent of all Ohio children, meet

By: Gerry Fairbrother | 1

Health Care Quality

Berwick II: Health reform not for the faint of heart

Don Berwick, President Obama’s choice to lead the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, faces many challenges. Transformation of health care is not for the faint of heart. But there is very good evidence that the reduction in cost and the simultaneous improvement in quality can, and should be, tackled at the same time. Uma

By: Uma Kotagal | 1

Health Care Quality

Don Berwick: Just the thinking health care needs

It’s been a pleasure these past few weeks to see all the praise being heaped on our friend Don Berwick, who is President Obama’s choice to lead the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Sometimes it’s hard to argue with the President of the United States! I’ve had the pleasure of working with Don over

By: Uma Kotagal | 0

Health Care Quality

Time to work on real quality in health care reform

There was a time that when the feds talked about quality in terms of Medicare and Medicaid, they were referring to fraud. If you weren’t stealing, you ran a quality program. Times have changed, thankfully. It’s still wrong to steal, of course, but today when quality health care is on the table, we’re talking about

Health Care Quality

Quality, safety, health reform: what’s best for the kids

Dozens of speakers at the NACHRI spring meeting, Creating Connections, are engaging representatives from children’s hospitals and related institutions in a vigorous dialogue this week on topics from quality and safety to health care reform, transparency, working in partnership and, in essence, doing what’s right for the kids. Here are links to some slides from

Health Care Quality

A checklist manifesto of our own

Atul Gawande’s recently released book, The Checklist Manifesto, caught our attention last week as Dr. Gawande was making the media rounds. We’re clearly not in the business of reviewing books (but here’s one courtesy of the New York Times, if you’re interested), and honestly, none of us in media relations have read it, but just

By: KateSetter | 0

Chronic Care Networks

‘Follow your heart and you can’t go wrong’

It’s not every day a group of doctors sits quietly in a room and listens to patients, parents and peers tell them what they think is wrong about the way the care is provided. But that’s how a group of doctors that met at Cincinnati Children’s sat during a kickoff design meeting last month. They did it so they could

By: Peter Margolis | 0

Chronic Care Networks

‘Disruptive work’ could improve health care through sharing

Usually when we talk about something being disruptive, it’s a bad thing. The wreck on the highway “disrupts” the morning commute. The snowstorm “disrupts” air travel. People on laptops and cell phones “disrupt” meetings. But how about if we could disrupt something that’s just not working and make it better? Then, the disruption would be

Health Care Quality

It’s Epic: Health Care IT and quality improvement

Something very significant happened early Sunday morning at Cincinnati Children’s. Something the patients and their families didn’t even notice. But something that was a major step toward making their care safer and more effective. The techies among us call it a giant “go live.” You may think of it as “flipping the switch.” The bottom

Health Care Quality

A Quality New Year

The Ohio Department of Health started off the New Year on the right foot by launching a consumer-friendly website allowing people to compare quality (and eventually pricing) data of Ohio hospitals. The ODH’s new Ohio Hospital Compare website went live January 1. While only four pediatric measures are included in this first go-round, significantly more

Health Care Quality

Who’s in charge? Family-centered care and reform

Are our politicians ignoring moms in the health care debate? According to a new survey from the blog “Why Moms Rule,” women at least feel that way. Women are responsible for most health care decisions (92 percent of their own; 65 percent of their children’s decisions and 59 percent of their spouse’s or partner’s) and

Health Care Quality

Safety and quality in a high reliability organization

In this space recently, Dr. Steve (our safety officer, Steve Muething, MD) wrote about our patient safety journey. He did so by reminding us at the Tuesday morning Grand Rounds that we are not perfect, but that we’re making progress and we’re always trying to improve. That’s something he and others try to engrain in

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Leaping to the top

The results of the annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey are in and Cincinnati Children’s is tops! Only eight pediatric institutions and 45 hospitals of any kind were named one of this year’s Top Hospitals. Our rigorous quality and safety work continues to be recognized. Top pediatric hospitals make the list by having a quality score of

By: KateSetter | 0

Health Care Quality

Today’s a special day in Cincinnati, even though most people in our fair city don’t know it. Today is James M. Anderson Day, as proclaimed by our mayor, Mark Mallory. It is so named to mark the accomplishments, and to say thank you, as we near the day, the first one of 2010, when Jim

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