Cedars-Sinai announced today that it has become one of 56 Charter Members of a new multi-national network, created by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston, MA, to improve health care quality. The network, known as IMPACT, brings together change-oriented health care organizations seeking to improve the way health care is delivered. The 56 Charter Members are located in 28 states in the United States and two provinces in Canada.
IMPACT is a network of health care organizations -- including some of the finest hospitals in the world -- that are joining together to create a community of service providers committed to significantly improving patient care. IMPACT member organizations will work in five critical areas:* Patient Safety -- ensuring that patients are as safe in their facilities as they are in their own homes* Office Practice and Outpatient Settings -- building efficient, proactive, patient-centered care systems for primary care, specialty practices and ambulatory settings* Flow Through the Hospital -- reducing waiting times, redundancy and waste throughout the hospital system * Intensive Care Settings -- improving care for patients in critical care units while reducing costs* Workforce Development -- ensuring a vibrant, motivated, and skilled workforce
Each of the IMPACT member organizations has committed to making breakthrough improvements in one or more of these areas during the next two years. Cedars-Sinai has been focusing on patient safety.
"We are enormously pleased to be a part of this multi-national effort," said Thomas M. Priselac, president and CEO of Cedars-Sinai. "As past participants of IHI's Quantum Leaps in Patient Safety Collaborative, we are excited to continue our work with the Institute other health care institutions to improve health outcomes and patient safety.
"It is hard to improve alone," said IHI president and CEO Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP. "That's why we created IMPACT, a community of improvers who will learn and act together across organizations, disciplines, and even nations. Together, they will accelerate learning, cut the risks and costs of innovation, celebrate successes, and support each other to transform patient care."
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is one of the largest non-profit academic medical centers in the Western United States. In its 100th year of service to the community, Cedars-Sinai is internationally renowned for its diagnostic and treatment capabilities and its broad spectrum of programs and services, as well as breakthrough in biomedical research and superlative medical education. Named one of the 100 "Most Wired" hospitals in health care in 2001, the Medical Center ranks among the top 10 non-university hospitals in the nation for its research activities. For more information, please visit: www.cedars-sinai.edu.
Founded in 1991, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is an independent, non-profit organization based in Boston, MA. IHI is dedicated to improving the quality of health care systems through education, research and demonstration projects and by fostering collaboration among organizations and their leaders. IHI projects extend throughout the U.S. and around the world.
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