IHI OPEN SCHOOL, AULTMAN HOSPITAL CHAPTER, Canton, OH

IHI Open School Aultman Chapter Mission:

Past Quality Improvement Projects:

• Co-Chairs: Audrey Bergeson, Nina Pola, Amanda Sommers

•Secretary: Aditi Gupta

•Treasurer: Vijay Pandya

•PR Chair: Anisha Bhatia

•Advisors: Martha Magoon, MD, Sue Mercer, MD

•Chapter Founder: Ramon Cancino, MD

•Chapter Website: http://aultmanihi.web.officelive.com/default.aspx

Leadership

Who Is Involved?

• Empower students to be change agents in healthcare improvement.

• Provide educational opportunities to the healthcare community on providing safe, effective,

patient centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care to all patients.

• Provide an interdisciplinary forum outside of the classroom for students and faculty to engage in

activity, dialogue, and research on topics of patient safety and quality improvement.

• Collaborate across the borders of separate and often alienated academic institutions to broaden the

perspectives of future generations of healthcare professionals.

• Create systematic improvements through the belief that environmental, organizational, and

interpersonal changes are possible within our present academic and professional careers.

• Generate local awareness of and excitement for quality improvement and patient safety among

the next generation of providers. Advance quality improvement and patient safety competencies on

all campuses represented by student membership.

ANYONE from:

•Medical Students

•Pharmacy Students

•Nursing Students

•Dentistry Students

•Occupational Therapy Students

•Physical Therapy Students

•Technology Students

•Undergraduate Students

•Social Workers

Why Should YOU Get Involved?

Who Is Involved?

• Excellent opportunity to develop clinical research experience

• Network with students of all disciplines with a shared interest of improving patient safety

Medication ComplianceA clinical research project aimed

to analyze methods to improve

medication compliance.

OR Time Out/ChecklistOperating room (OR) checklists

have proven to decrease wrong site

surgeries. This project looked at the

operating room, the heart

catheterization lab, and invasive

radiology lab to determine the

compliance of each of these areas

in using the checklist.

Isolation Protocol

ComplianceCompliance to isolation protocols has

been proven to decrease the spread of

nosocomial infections in the hospital.

This project collected data to assess

employee compliance with the

hospital guidelines. This data is now

being used to make recommendations

to the hospital and group members

are currently assisting with the

implementation of these

recommendations.

VTE Device ComplianceVenothroboembolism devices--also

known as sequential compression

devices--are devices placed on the legs

of patients who are not at a normal

level of mobility due to

hospitalization. The compressions

provided by the device help blood

move through the legs to prevent

pooling. Phase I of this project

determined compliance with VTE use.