CMW News: Pilot study provides lessons learned for cardiac care
Case Management Weekly, November 26, 2008
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Ten hospitals increased the number of patients receiving all recommended care for heart failure by 37% during the last two years, says a recent report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded a $300 million initiative aimed at combating differences in care between ethnic groups. The 29-month long pilot program involved 10 hospitals of different types and sizes from around the nation. According to the report, the program started based on evidence that black and Hispanic patients were less likely to receive life-saving cardiac diagnostic procedures, revascularization, and thrombolytic therapy.
The program, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care, focused on the following four goals within the continuum of cardiac care:
- To improve cardiac care for black and Hispanic patients
- To develop effective, replicable quality improvement strategies, models, and resources
- To encourage the spread of those strategies and models to clinical areas outside of cardiac care
- To share relevant lessons with healthcare providers and policy makers
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has published a toolkit of lessons learned from the pilot program, available for healthcare facility use.
Source: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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