The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Improvement Map

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) launched its Improvement Map, a free resource available to anyone, anywhere who wants to improve hospital care, on September 15, 2009. Building on the success of IHI’s 100,000 Lives and 5 Million Lives Campaigns, the IHI Improvement Map distills the best clinical and managerial knowledge available on the key processes that lead to exceptional hospital care for patients. It is an interactive, Web-based tool that helps hospital leaders make sense of competing demands and requirements and develop a portfolio of projects to improve quality while lowering costs.  

NMMRA and the New Mexico Hospital Association, serving together as the New Mexico IHI Node, support hospital efforts to implement IHI interventions (many of which overlap with NMMRA's Quality Improvement Organization directives). Nodes help by keeping hospitals updated on the progress of others in the state and across the nation in these areas.

Access IHI Improvement Map interventions like the World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist, Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections, and Link Quality and Financial Management: Strategies to Engage the Chief Financial Officer and Provide Value for Patients.

• Prevent Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection ... by reliably implementing scientifically proven infection control practices throughout the hospital
• Reduce harm from high-alert medications ... starting with a focus on anticoagulants, sedatives, narcotics, and insulin
• Reduce surgical complications ... by reliably implementing the changes in care recommended by the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP)
• Prevent pressure ulcers ... by reliably using science-based guidelines for prevention of this serious and common complication
• Deliver reliable, evidence-based care for congestive heart failure … to reduce readmissions
• Get boards on board … by defining and spreading new and leveraged processes for hospital boards of directors, so they can become far more effective in accelerating the improvement of care
• Deploy Rapid Response Teams … at the first sign of patient decline – and before a catastrophic cardiac or respiratory event
• Deliver reliable, evidence-based care for acute myocardial infarction … to prevent deaths from heart attack
• Prevent adverse drug events … by reconciling patient medications at every transition point in care
• Prevent central line infections ... by implementing a series of interdependent, scientifically grounded steps
• Prevent surgical site infections ... by following a series of steps, including reliable, timely administration of correct perioperative antibiotics
• Prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia ... by implementing a series of interdependent, scientifically grounded steps

As an IHI node, NMMRA also supports New Mexico hospitals through regular communications, including articles in its Focus on Patient Safety e-newsletters, and by sharing tools and techniques to improve patient care.

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