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January 26, 2010
Marquette General Hospital sets sights on improved patient safety and quality for Obstetrics and ER care
Marquette General Hospital is now participating in a recently expanded statewide patient safety collaborative focused on protecting mothers, newborns and emergency patients.
The patient safety collaboratives, coordinated by the Michigan Health & Hospital Association Keystone Center for Patient Safety & Quality, are known as MHA Keystone: Emergency Room and MHA Keystone: Obstetrics. MGH has been involved with MHA Keystone: ICU since 2004.
MHA Keystone: ER seeks to improve patient care in hospital emergency rooms by improving safety, reducing overcrowding, and treating sepsis in the early stages. Seventy-one Michigan 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. The MHA Keystone Center has partnered with Lean Transformations Group, LLC, Ann Arbor, in this endeavor.
MHA Keystone: OB seeks to improve patient care 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 safe interventions for elective induction of labor, coordinating a safe progression of labor, and appropriate responses to fetal distress. The interventions for MHA Keystone: OB include improving patient safety through influencing attitudes and practices. The MHA Keystone Center has partnered with G. Eric Knox, MD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and Kathleen Rice Simpson, PhD, RNC, FAAN, perinatal clinical nurse specialist at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, St. Louis, MO, in this endeavor.
“Patient safety and quality is at the very center of what we do,” said A. Gary Muller, FACHE, MGHS President and CEO. “Our participation in MHA Keystone: ER and MHA Keystone: OB 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 for three hospitals in Michigan, and then the project was opened for enrollment to other Michigan hospitals in fall 2009.
The following Upper Peninsula hospitals have also committed to joining the MHA Keystone collaboratives: Bell Hospital (OB); Dickinson County Healthcare System, (ER and OB); Grand View Health System, (ER and OB); Helen Newberry Joy Hospital, (ER); Portage Health (ER and OB); and War Memorial Hospital, (ER and OB).
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