Open AccessEstablishing the Foundation to Support Health System Quality Improvement: Using a Hand Hygiene Initiative to Define the Process
Author(s) -
Rebecca Anderson,
Alexandra Rosenberg,
Swati Garg,
Jennifer Nahass,
Andrew Nenos,
Natalia Egorova,
Jem J. Rowland,
Joseph Mari,
Vicki LoPachin
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of patient safety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.546
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1549-8425
pISSN - 1549-8417
DOI - 10.1097/pts.0000000000000578
Subject(s) - hygiene , medicine , quality management , patient safety , transparency (behavior) , infection control , health care , nursing , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , operations management , management system , computer science , computer security , engineering , pathology , economics , economic growth
As hospitals are increasingly consolidating into larger health systems, they are becoming better positioned to have far reaching and material impacts on safety and quality of care. When the Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) was formed in 2013, it sought to ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality care to every patient. In 2014, the MSHS addressed hand hygiene as the first major system-wide process improvement project focused on quality and safety. The goals of this study were to evaluate a system-wide hand hygiene program and to create a foundation for future process improvement projects.