Quality Improvement

Quality Improvement & Patient Safety

Quality Improvement is an application area of the NEA Baptist health system. The goals of our program are to expose Residents to the primary issues in the field of Quality Improvement, and give them the tools to begin addressing these through hands-on field research.  

Each Resident is an active member of one or more of our Quality Improvement or Patient Safety teams.  These committees and task forces are staffed with multidisciplinary teams. 

2020 President’s Quality Award

The C-diff Task Force Committee was presented Baptist's 2020 President’s Quality Award for their work to reduce C-diff.  The residents worked as a team to create a poster to submit to the annual Quality Symposium.

The strategies implemented included the development of a task force aimed at reducing hospital-acquired CDIs, demonstrate the benefit in evaluating patient care processes and systems-based practices to ultimately improve patient safety and optimize utilization of health care resources.  There are 22 hospitals in the Baptist Memorial Health Care system.

Quality Improvement Resident Committee Opportunities

• C-Diff Task Force

• MVP: Multi-Visit Patient. Resident driven program for readmission opportunities monthly.

• Patient Safety Culture

• Med Process

• Multidisciplinary Mortality

• Patient Safety Indicators

• Falls Team Meeting

• Hospital Acquired Infections

• Cost per Case Team

2020 NEJM Resident 360 Quality Improvement Challenge

A Multidisciplinary Approach in Reducing Hospital-acquired Clostridioides difficile Infections