OHA - Data Services

Quality Improvement Collaborative Projects
Dayton Columbus Cincinnati Northeast Ohio Children's

OHA currently manages quality improvement collaboratives in Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus and in Northeast Ohio, as well as a statewide children's hospital collaborative. These projects have been designed and managed by OHA Data Services to improve the quality of hospital care delivered in the participating communities.

The first collaborative project was established in Dayton in 1999. OHA's work with the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association (GDAHA) to improve outcomes of care in cardiac patients in Montgomery County resulted in GDAHA being awarded JCAHO's prestigious Ernest A. Codman Award. The collaborative project in Columbus began in 2003, and the Cincinnati collaborative, representing 17 hospitals in the Cincinnati area, began in 2005. Two more collaboratives, the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association (OCHA) Quality Improvement Collaborative and the Northeast Ohio Quality Collaborative, were founded in 2007.

Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association Performance Improvement Project
The Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association (GDAHA) Performance Improvement Project was the first quality collaborative in Ohio, established in 1999. The seven participating hospitals are:

Dayton Heart Hospital
Good Samaritan Hospital and Health Center, Dayton
Grandview Medical Center, Dayton
Kettering Medical Center
Kettering Medical Center – Sycamore, Miamisburg
Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton
Southview Hospital and Family Health Center, Dayton

OHA's work with the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association (GDAHA) to improve outcomes of care in cardiac patients in Montgomery County resulted in GDAHA being awarded the Joint Commission’s prestigious Ernest A. Codman Award for reducing heart attack mortality rates by 36 percent. Additional quality improvement work has been done in pneumonia and deep-vein thrombosis (DVT). GDAHA’s Performance Improvement Project publicly released the Quality of Care Report for Montgomery County Hospitals, which tracked quality data such as mortality rates, length of stay and process of care in May 2007. To learn more about the GDAHA’s Performance Improvement Project, visit www.gdaha.org.

Central Ohio Quality Collaborative
The Central Ohio Quality Collaborative represents the collective commitment of area hospitals to create a learning environment to share practices and engage in projects and processes to improve the quality of care in the community. Since it’s establishment in 2003, the collaborative has expanded into the surrounding counties and includes the following hospitals:

Berger Health System, Circleville
Doctors Hospital West, Columbus
Fairfield Medical Center, Lancaster
Grady Memorial Hospital, Delaware
Grant Medical Center, Columbus
James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, Columbus
Licking Memorial Hospital, Newark
Memorial Hospital of Union County, Marysville
Mount Carmel East, Columbus
Mt. Carmel St. Ann’s, Westerville
Mt. Carmel West, Columbus
The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus
The Ohio State University Hospitals East, Columbus
Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus

The Central Ohio Quality Collaborative is expanding the traditional focus on quality projects to include an annual patient safety conference. Additionally they are examining stroke-related care from a community perspective.

Greater Cincinnati Hospital Quality Improvement Project
The Greater Cincinnati Hospital Quality Improvement Project (HQIP) comprises 20 southwest Ohio hospitals collaborating to provide performance measures and tools for hospitals to use to improve their quality of care. HQIP is a voluntary project that brings together, in a non-competitive setting, businesses, hospital quality management professionals, hospital medical directors and physicians from the community. The participating hospitals are:

Bethesda North Hospital, Cincinnati
Brown County General Hospital, Georgetown
The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati
Clinton Memorial Hospital, Wilmington
Dearborn County Hospital, Lawrenceburg, Ind.
The Fort Hamilton Hospital
Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati
Highland District Hospital, Hillsboro
The Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati
Margaret Mary Community Hospital, Batesville, Ind.
McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital, Oxford
Mercy Hospital Anderson
Mercy Hospital Clermont, Batavia
Mercy Hospital of Fairfield
Mercy Hospital Mt. Airy, Cincinnati
Mercy Hospital Western Hills, Cincinnati
Middletown Regional Hospital
The St. Luke Hospital East, Ft. Thomas, Ky.
The St. Luke Hospital West, Florence, Ky.
The University Hospital, Cincinnati

HQIP has cross-collaborated with the Central Ohio Quality Collaborative on a congestive heart failure conference. HQIP publicly released 2006 data on Feb. 27, 2008, via a new Web site, www.gchchospitalquality.org
View 2005 data in the Quality Performance of Participating Hospitals Report to the Community.
For more information on HQIP, visit the Greater Cincinnati Health Council Web site.

Ohio Children's Hospital Association Quality Improvement Collaborative
The Ohio Children’s Hospital Association (OCHA) Quality Improvement Collaborative was formed in 2007 as a statewide process improvement project drawing on the collective expertise of the six participating pediatric hospitals. The participating hospitals are:

Akron Children’s Hospital
The Children’s Medical Center, Dayton
Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus
Toledo Children’s Hospital
University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, Cleveland

The pediatric hospitals are working to implement shared methods and processes to improve patient care. Through a series of learning sessions, teams from each of the hospitals are working on code recognition, response and communication. For more information about the OCHA Quality Improvement Collaborative, visit http://ohiochildrenshospitals.org.

Northeast Ohio Quality Collaborative
The newest OHA-based collaborative, the Northeast Ohio Quality Collaborative, established in 2007, is currently becoming acquainted with data processing, risk adjustment models, data reports and the collaborative structure. The participating hospitals are:

Akron Children's Hospital
Akron General Medical Center
Aultman Hospital, Canton
Barberton Citizens Hospital
Cleveland Clinic Health System
Euclid Hospital
Fairview Hospital, Cleveland
Hillcrest Hospital, Mayfield Heights
Huron Hospital, Cleveland
Lake Hospital System
Lakewood Hospital
Lutheran Hospital, Cleveland
Marymount Hospital, Garfield Heights
MedCentral Health System/Mansfield Hospital
MedCentral Health System/Shelby Hospital
Medina General Hospital
Mercy Medical Center, Canton
Robinson Memorial Hospital, Ravenna
Salem Community Hospital
Samaritan Regional Health System, Ashland
South Pointe Hospital, Warrensville Heights
Southwest General Health Center, Middleburg Heights
St. John West Shore Hospital, Westlake
St. Vincent Charity Hospital, Cleveland
Summa Health System, Akron
Summa Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital
Trumbull Memorial Hospital, Warren
University Hospitals Bedford Medical Center
University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland
University Hospitals Conneaut Medical Center
University Hospitals Geauga Medical Center, Chardon
University Hospitals Geneva Medical Center
University Hospitals Richmond Medical Center, Richmond Heights
Union Hospital, Dover
WRH Health System, Wadsworth

While value-added projects are still in the process of being determined, the collaborative is already the largest.

Contacts
OHA, in conjunction with Applied Health Services, has developed risk-adjustment models ranging from pneumonia to cardiology to obstetrics. OHA Data Services has extensive experience in rapid cycle improvement technology using valid and timely data to help drive change in health care organizations. For more information contact:

Mary Drake
Manager, Data Initiatives
maryd@ohanet.org

David Engler
Vice President, Data Serves and Research & Educational Foundation
davide@ohanet.org