CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Advocate Health has used the strength of combining two leading, legacy health systems in 2022 to steadily improve the quality of care it provides patients, according to a white paper released Thursday.
Two years of sharing best practices and integrating around single, unified standards and processes have already resulted in significant improvements across the health system’s six-state footprint.
Por ejemplo:
- The mortality rate across all Advocate Health hospitals dropped 14% from enero de 2023 through September of 2024.
- About 18,500 more patients have their blood pressure or diabetes under control compared to the year before. The white paper describes how one patient worked with a care manager to improve his health and life.
- The system nearly quadrupled the number of its hospitals that received “A” grades for quality from the Leapfrog Group from spring to fall 2024, up to 19.
“These results are why we are continually improving the quality of the care we provide our patients, no matter where they live,” said Dr. Scott Rissmiller, Advocate Health’s chief clinical officer. “When our physicians, nurses, advanced practice professionals and teammates work together across our geographies to share and scale best practices, the people who depend on us get more healthy days at home with their loved ones.”
Advocate Health is aligning, over time, on processes and standards, choosing to implement the best-of-the-best practices, detect and manage chronic conditions, give nurses the tools they need to succeed, improve patients’ experience, reduce mortality in the hospital, handle crises and more.
The efforts behind these hard-won successes, among many others, are complex, challenging and ever-ongoing – the result of years of small gains and lessons learned that add up to improved outcomes for patients. They include improvements in proactively reaching out to patients who need help with their hypertension or diabetes, in preventing and treating sepsis, in improving cancer screening and more.
“What people ultimately care about is if we save lives,” said Dr. Betty Chu, chief medical officer for Advocate Health. “Did fewer people get infections? Did more people go home healthy from the hospital? You need one structure and one organizational alignment to do that. The faster you can do that, I believe, the faster you get to improving outcomes, which is the gold standard.”
The full white paper can be found on Advocate Health’s website at AdvocateHealth.org/QualityCare.
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