FOCUS Focusing on the people and initiatives that distinguish Christiana Care Health System
Christiana Care embraces CMS campaign to improve patient safety
VOLUME 22, NUMBER 11
A publication from Christiana Care Health System External Affairs P.O. Box 1668 Wilmington, DE 19899-1668 www.christianacare.org
Accepting certificates of excellence from Quality Insights of Delaware representative Kathy Rivard (center) are, from left: Janet Cunningham, Michelle Kane, Sharon Anderson, Beth Donovan, Carol Briody, Patty Resnik and Michelle Collins.
C Inside Christiana Care ranks among state’s Top Work Places
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Christiana Care nurses earn statewide honors
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Transforming Leadership Forum
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Surgeon Jay Luft, M.D.,’s mission to Ethiopia
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New CPR guidelines
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Community Clinical Onclogy Program leads patient accruals
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Caring for Yourself - See your dentist regularly - Get help controlling asthma
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hristiana Care Health System received Certificates of Excellence from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for collaborating in hospital-acquired infection and pressure ulcer prevention projects conducted by Quality Insights of Delaware (QID) in the CMS 9th Scope of Work period. A Scope of Work refers to a three-year period during which CMS enters contracts with quality improvement organizations such as QID across the nation to conduct quality improvement projects. The 9th scope pertains to the contract that started July 1, 2008 and ended June 30, 2011. The theme was patient safety. As part of a larger group encompassing West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Delaware, QID won CMS’ approval for two project proposals to gather data and measure results in health
care provider collaborative efforts to reduce transmission of hospitalacquired Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and to reduce the occurrence of pressure ulcers. Our participation in the CMS 9th Scope of Work is a great example of how we learn as a system to improve patient care in a collaborative strategy with other providers throughout the State of Delaware and our region. MRSA safety initiative The QID-run, statewide collaborative project to reduce MRSA took place from August 2008 to July 2011. Wilmington Hospital Intensive Care, or WICU, became the chosen battleground for implementing MRSA prevention strategies. “WICU submitted MRSA data from the Infection Prevention department to the Center's for Disease Control's CONTINUED,
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