Posted October 4, 2006
Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare: Business News
Implementing an Idealized Model for Critical Care
Implementing an Idealized Model for Critical Care, an Institute for Healthcare Improvement Learning and Innovation Community, is now available either through membership in IHI's IMPACT network or on a direct-enroll basis.
The Challenge
Intensive care is both complex and expensive, with errors occurring at unacceptable rates. Despite numerous local improvements in ICU care, many promising improvements remain unused, fragmented, isolated and dispersed.
The Solution
The Critical Care Learning and Innovation Community is designed to close the gap between what is known and what is practiced in intensive care units, and to establish new systems of care in critical care settings. Its specific areas of focus include:
- Creating the collaborative, multidisciplinary care team
- Increasing the capacity to standardize care
- Integration of the patient and family
- Building the appropriate infrastructure and culture
IHI's most intensive front-line improvement work happens in Learning and Innovation Communities. These are collaborative change laboratories in which teams from a wide variety of organizations work with each other and IHI faculty to rapidly test and implement meaningful, sustainable change within a specific topic area.
To learn more about participating in this Community through the IMPACT network, please follow this link to the ihi.org web site, http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Programs/IMPACTNetwork/ where you will find information about IMPACT, including an overview of what is included with membership, a downloadable brochure, sample results, and membership fees.
For information specifically on the Critical Care Community — including areas of focus, aims, fees for the direct enroll option, and the meeting schedule — please see:
http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Programs/CollaborativeLearning/
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