Quality Improvement Collaboratives
The Commission’s Quality Improvement Collaboratives work to eliminate preventable infections in Oregon. The Collaboratives are funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and offer hospitals, neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), and dialysis facilities the opportunity to actively engage with other members of the community to share ideas, brainstorm solutions, and offer tools.
History
In 2010, the Oregon Patient Safety Commission received funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to create Phase I of the Hospital HAI Prevention Collaborative. The Collaborative began in June 2010 with nine Oregon hospitals working to address central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), surgical site infections (SSIs), and Clostridium difficile (C Diff) infections. In September 2011, the Commission received additional CDC funding for a second phase, which extends the success of the initial CLABSI prevention collaborative to Oregon’s non-intensive care hospital units, neonatal intensive care units, and dialysis facilities.
HOSPITAL HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTION (HAI) PREVENTION COLLABORATIVE
Since June 2010, nine participating hospitals have successfully reduced CLABSIs on pilot units by over nearly 40 percent and surgical site infections in targeted surgeries by over 40 percent. These hospitals are now focusing on spreading CLABSI prevention initiatives to other units and SSI prevention interventions to other surgeries. A subset of the nine participating hospitals will continue forward with the next phase of the HAI Collaborative, focusing specifically on CLABSI reduction outside of intensive care units.
Hospital Collaborative Participants
- Columbia Memorial Hospital
- Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center
- Mountain View Hospital
- Oregon Health and Sciences University
- Providence Portland Medical Center
- Rogue Valley Medical Center
- St. Anthony Hospital
- Silverton Hospital
- Sky Lakes Medical Center
NICU CLABSI PREVENTION COLLABORATIVE
Most of Oregon’s neonatal intensive care units are working together to prevent CLABSI in this vulnerable population. Participants will work together for eight months, implementing activities focused on CLABSI prevention and promotion of a safety oriented culture, using enhanced CLABSI prevention activities and materials from the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program (CUSP) developed at Johns Hopkins Medical Center.
NICU Collaborative Participants
- Oregon Health and Sciences University
- Providence St Vincent Medical Center
- Rogue Valley Medical Center
- Sacred Heart Medical Center
- Salem Hospital
- St. Charles Medical Center
DIALYSIS BSI PREVENTION COLLABORATIVE
Ten to fifteen renal dialysis centers will come together for seven months to focus on prevention of blood stream infections (BSIs), using tools successfully implemented by the CDC’s own Dialysis BSI Prevention Collaborative.
Dialysis Collaborative Participants
- PNRS Rose Quarter
- Qualicenters Albany
- Hillsboro Dialysis Center
- Sherwood Dialysis Center
- Ray Yasui Dialysis Center, Hood River Memorial Hospital
To learn more about any of our collaboratives, please contact Collaborative Director .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), (503) 224-5034.
