Transformation and Transparency
The cornerstones of the Pursuing Perfect Care initiative at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center are transformation and transparency. And it is through transformation and transparency that we continue to move forward toward achieving our vision of being the leader in improving child health.
Transformation
Transformation is the effort by Cincinnati Children's to make big, significant improvements in the way we deliver health care to our patients and their families. As we share these dramatic changes with the world, we hope our efforts will become a model for the nation:
- We collaborated with families to create a training program and videos on how to conduct family-centered rounds.
- Our inpatient improvement team has developed a more efficient discharge process, ensuring families are discharged within four hours of meeting their discharge goals.
- We reduced hospital admission rates for several common childhood illnesses by developing family-centered, prevention-focused acute care services for children with these common illnesses
- Experts, patients and families at Cincinnati Children's have worked together to develop evidence-based guidelines for 28 childhood illnesses, including 10 common illnesses such as urinary tract infections, asthma, sinusitis, and gastroenteritis.
- We developed Chronic Condition Clinical Portals designed to improve the quality of patient care. Each portal is a secure web site that gives patients and families online access to accurate, up-to-date medical record information.
- The Transplant Medication Safety team developed a web-based medication list for each transplant patient. Families can now "own" the medication list, helping the health care professionals at Cincinnati Children's ensure that each child's list is always up to date. This also allows us to have one accurate medication list that is available 24/7 for inpatients and outpatients.
Read more about the transformational changes being made at Cincinnati Children's.
Transparency
At Cincinnati Children's, transparency means being willing to talk about the bad, as well as the good. Transparency is a key driver of transformational change.
Admitting when we are not the best takes courage. But more important, transparency takes strength and determination to change, improve and develop best practices for delivering perfect care.
Based on our belief in being transparent, we want to share some of our data with you:
