Helping Regional Hospitals Improve Safety
Hospitals in the Greater Philadelphia area have benefited from Partnership for Patient Care (PPC) since January 2006. The PPC is a collaborative among the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF), the hospitals in southeast Pennsylvania, Independence Blue Cross, and ECRI Institute to accelerate the effective adoption of evidence-based clinical practices by pooling the resources, knowledge, and efforts of hospitals and other key stakeholders. ECRI Institute brings leadership in patient safety to this collaboration.
The PPC promotes best practices and evidence-based medicine to improve the safety and quality of healthcare at the region’s hospitals. Using a regional, strategic, and cohesive approach, the PPC provides education, tools, technical assistance, resources, and an interactive forum to facilitate hospitals’ efforts to more rapidly implement best practices.
Each year, the PPC initiatives target several high-risk processes, which are selected based on their broad application across regional healthcare facilities, regional advisory group input, and synergy with national patient safety/quality initiatives.
2008 Initiatives
In 2008, PPC will focus on the following:
- Wrong-site surgery prevention
- Prevention of pressure ulcers
2007 Initiatives
In 2007, PPC focused on three key patient safety risk areas. The complete analyses, available below, include strategies, results, and detailed flowcharts for improvement on the following topics:
2006 Initiatives
In 2006, PPC focused on strengthening infection control through using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis on clinical processes. The complete analyses, available below, include strategies, results, and detailed flowcharts for improvement on the following topics:
PPC in the News
Find Out More about PPC
- Read a recent press release from ECRI Institute.
- Read a press release from Independence Blue Cross.
- Read about how ECRI Institute helped hospitals use failure mode and effect analysis to prevent infections in a press release from the Healthcare Improvement Foundation.
- Contact Kathy Pelczarski, Director, Applied Solutions, ECRI Institute for more information about the PPC
