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Wisconsin
Success
Stories: WISCONSIN
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- MetaStar
helped found the Wisconsin Patient Safety Institute (WPSI) along with
a coalition of health care providers, business and consumer organizations,
and others committed to enhancing, promoting, and improving patient
safety through education, research and collaboration. The WPSI Board
of Directors voted in 2005 to transition all future functions of the
new Patient Safety Forum to MetaStar. The QIO will administrate and
lead the Forum’s efforts in consumer education and information
sharing to create a safer health care system for Wisconsin.
- St.
Joseph Regional Medical Center, Milwaukee improves from 19 surgeries
between preventable surgical infections to 833 during a 2002 project
to reduce infections: In 2002, as part of the Surgical
Site Infection Prevention (SIP) project, a national demonstration
to reduce surgical site infections, the St. Joseph ’s team
d ecreased the infection rate in C-sections by 100%; decreased the
infection rate in colorectal surgeries by 100%; decreased the infection
rate in cardiac surgeries by 71%; and decreased the infection rate
in vascular surgeries by 65%. “The work of our team is currently
being spread to all adult surgical inpatients. This has introduced
significant redesign of processes to many areas of the hospital,” said
Barbara Rogness, RN, Patient Care Coordinator, St. Joseph Regional
Medical Center. SIP was a project led by Seattle-based QIO Qualis
Health in 2002 and involved more than 50 hospital teams across the
country.
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