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Inside the news: Colorado health system looks abroad to improve patient care

HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, July 22, 2008

Poudre Valley Health System in Colorado is teaming up with Israeli healthcare organizations to study best practices in hopes of improving patient care and safety.

Poudre Valley Health System, comprising Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, CO—an ANCC Magnet Recognition Program redesignation recipient in 2004—and Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, CO, is also teaming up with American organizations for the project. Poudre will join forces with:

• Six Israeli hospitals (Hadassah University Medical Center, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Meir Medical Center, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and Netanya Geriatric Medical Center)
• Providence Health and Services in Seattle, WA (a network of 26 hospitals)
• VHA (formerly known as Voluntary Hospitals of America, VHA is a national healthcare provider)

In order to achieve their shared goal of improved patient care and safety, the organizations will adapt each other’s best practices by comparing and analyzing how each one handles common patient challenges such as ventilator-associated pneumonia, pressure ulcers, and healthcare-associated infections.

The project will begin in early September in Jerusalem. 

Source: Poudre Valley Health System

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