1. THA Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (HIIN) Monthly Check-In 7-19-17

2. THA HIIN Contacts Name Email Sr. VP for Clinical Services Chris Clarke
VP for Operations
HIIN Management Patient & Family Engagement Disparities
Patrice Mayo
Data Manager
Jennifer McIntosh
Clinical Quality Improvement Specialist
Adverse Drug Events C. Difficile VTE MRSA SSI
Jackie Moreland
Readmissions Sepsis
Worker Safety
Rhonda Dickman
CAUTI CLABSI
Falls Pressure Injuries
VAE
Janet Meadows

3. HIIN Participants 4022 HIIN hospitals nationally
1627 HRET HIIN hospitals as of
817 Rural Hospitals
562 Critical Access Hospitals
71 Major Teaching Hospitals
78 THA HIIN hospitals

4. National HIIN Goal Goal through 9-27-19 20% reduction in HACs
12% reduction in 30-Day Readmissions
Harm Reduction Goal
2010—145 Harms/1,000 Discharges
2011—142 Harms/1,000 Discharges
2012—132 Harms/1,000 Discharges
2013—121 Harms/1,000 Discharges
2014—121 Harms/1,000 Discharges
2019—97 Harms/1,000 Discharges

5. HIIN Resources Weekly TCPS e-newsletter
Tennessee Center for Patient Safety (TCPS) website:
HRET HIIN website:
Site visits / coaching calls
HIIN Listservs (ADE, ICU, level 1 trauma centers, infections, healthcare disparities, PFE, readmissions, sepsis, hospital-wide topics, rural/critical access hospitals)

6. Quarterly HRET HIIN Survey
Organizational Items—sepsis, PFE, leadership, and diversity
Takes approximately 5 minutes to complete
Due Friday, July 28
Submit through HRET CDS or a completed hardcopy to or fax to

7. Readmissions Challenge
Goal: Capture patient/family perspectives on readmission contributing factors
Process: Interview up to five readmitted patients and complete a short survey by August 31
Optional interview tools and the survey link will be ed to HIIN main contacts and Readmission contacts this week

8. Showcasing Success
Success stories produced by a professional healthcare writer
Best practice sharing at state and national meetings and/or webinars
Featured on THA website, electronic newsletters, and in reports to HRET and CMS

9. Mentorship Program
Opportunity for your facility to mentor other hospitals through workshops, coaching calls, site visits, or best practice presentations
Stipends to mentor facilities
Opportunity for your facility to be paired with a peer mentor hospital in areas challenging to your facility
Mileage reimbursement for mentee hospitals to travel to mentor facilities and workshops

10. HIIN Measures and Data

11. Report Distributor NHSN Claims Survey
Measure
Report Distributor
NHSN
Claims
Survey
Adverse Drug Events (Anticoagulants, Hypoglycemic, Opioids) X
CAUTI
CLABSI
C Difficile
Falls
MRSA
Pressure Ulcers
Readmissions
Sepsis
Surgical Site Infections
Patient & Family Engagement
Post-op Venous Thromboembolism
Ventilator-Associated Events
Worker Safety

12. Report Distributor Choose a type of Report

13. Report Distributor Choose a Topic on Which to Report

14. Report Distributor Complete steps 1-3 and Submit Form
Hospital Name

15. Report Distributor Process or Outcome
Hospital Name

16. Report Distributor Choose a Topic on Which to Report
Hospital Name

17. Report Distributor Reminders
Data should be current for HIIN project (October 2016 and forward)
Data is due the end of each month for the previous month – including “zeroes”
Report Distributor is refreshed monthly (20th)
Edits to data previously submitted should be ed to
Data entry assistance available--contact Jennifer McIntosh

18. Questions?
Comments?

19. Save the Date Leadership Summit Fall Regional Meetings
Poster / Presentation Proposals due July 21
Weds., October 11 at THA annual conference
Fall Regional Meetings
Tuesday, September 12 in Memphis
Thursday, September 14 in Knoxville
Tuesday, September 19 in Nashville