Quality

Quality and Patient Safety is one of KHA's Strategic Issues.

QIP

KHA is a sponsor for the MHA/QI Project. The QI Project assists organization leadership in overseeing patient care quality and identifies opportunities for improvement.

QHi

QHi is a multi-state benchmarking project designed by small rural Kansas hospitals to evaluate and compare their clinical and operational performance. The Web-based tool includes a dashboard and reporting application where hospitals create self-defined peer groups for comparison and benchmarking. The growth of the user driven QHi program has exceeded expectations and is now being used by more than 195 hospitals in 12 states, including 60 hospitals in Kansas. For more information, contact Sally Perkins at (785) 233-7436.

Immunizations of Hospital Health Care Workers

2010 marked the beginning of a four-year campaign by the Kansas Healthcare Collaborative* to increase the number of hospital health care workers receiving yearly influenza vaccinations as part of the effort to decrease health care associated infections.This effort to reduce the spread of influenza and to protect the health of both patients and health care workers recommended that all health care workers, including medical staff, receive the seasonal influenza vaccine.

KHC established a statewide goal to increase the Kansas hospital health care worker seasonal influenza immunization rate to 100 percent by 2014. Kansas hospitals continue to make progress towards this goal. In a survey conducted in 2011, results indicated that 78 percent of hospital health care workers, including medical staff, were vaccinated against seasonal influenza for the 2010-2011 flu season.