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MN hospital recognized for reducing patient deaths

Case Management Weekly, March 1, 2006

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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) recognized Unity Hospital, Fridley, MN, for cutting its patient death rate from one of the highest among Twin Cities hospitals to one of the lowest, according to the Pioneer Press.

The article reports that the 275-bed facility adopted successful methods from other hospitals, including:

• adding hospitalists
• increasing efforts to prevent pneumonia among patients on ventilators
• reducing sepsis infections by encouraging earlier prevention or treatment with antibiotics

IHI highlighted Unity in its 2006 report of hospitals leading the way toward safer care. IHI adjusts hospital mortality data by comparing the number of patients who died in a year with the number of patients expected to die because of their ages and conditions. A rate above 100 means a hospital lost more patients than expected. The national patient death rate dropped to 90 in 2003 from 98 in 2001. During that period, Unity's adjusted mortality rate dropped to 75 from 113.

Source: Hospitalist Program Weekly

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