Clinical Quality Report
Saving Lives through IHI Best Practices
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
is a non-for-profit organization dedicated to improving
patient care by turning best practices into actions.
This is one of the initiatives White Memorial uses to track our
clinical quality. IHI is made up of a diverse faculty
of members from around the world, as well as a dedicated
group of highly respected professionals, according
to their Web site (www.ihi.org).
WMMC participates in one of IHI’s campaigns aimed at saving 100,000 lives nationwide through the consistent implementation of evidence-based medicine during a specific period of time. As part of this initiative, we collect two key statistics. First, we track the number of hospital deaths from heart attacks (Acute Myocardial Infarction Mortality Rate). And second, we track the incidence rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia for every 1,000 days that patients are connected to a ventilator (Ventilator-associated Pneumonia rate/1,000 ventilator days).
Between June 2005 and June 2006, WMMC was credited by IHI with saving 23 lives, which, based on all their health risks, were not expected to survive.
