The Superior Health Quality Alliance – a coalition of eight Midwest healthcare quality improvement organizations including the MHA Keystone Center – recently released a report detailing its work over the past five years as the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The report showcases several quality improvement initiatives spanning topics like chronic disease management, infection prevention and control and medication safety. The report highlights the organization’s success in reducing all-cause harm in rural, critical access and acute care hospitals serving vulnerable populations by:
- Lowering opioid adverse drug events (ADE) by 9%.
- Reducing anticoagulant-related and hypoglycemia-related ADEs by 46%.
- Improving community-based care transitions, resulting in a 3% reduction of readmissions.
The organization’s efforts across all improvement areas and settings of care resulted in:
- 268,656 harms avoided.
- A $1.02 billion return on investment.
- More than a 20% relative improvement rate in hospital readmissions.
Members with questions about the report or the Superior Health Quality Alliance should contact the MHA Keystone Center.