Fight MRSA! - Partners
About the Partnership for Patient Care
Developed jointly by The Health Care Improvement Foundation and IBC, the Partnership for Patient Care is a three-year, collaborative patient safety effort involving virtually all southeast Pennsylvania hospitals. In its first year in 2006, the partnership focused on reducing health care-associated infections (HAIs) by developing techniques to prevent surgical site and central-line associated blood stream infections and other sources of HAIs. This effort achieved significant improvements in related safety practices in hospitals across the region. The partnership is jointly funded by area hospitals and IBC.
About The Health Care Improvement Foundation
The Health Care Improvement Foundation (http://www.dvhc.org/hcif) is a nonprofit foundation that works closely with the Delaware Valley Healthcare Council of The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, IBC, area hospitals and health systems and other stakeholders dedicated to improving patient safety and quality. The foundation’s mission is to make Greater Philadelphia among the preeminently safe regions in the world to receive health care. Since its inception, the foundation has been recognized for fostering outstanding patient safety advances through large-scale, multi-organizational collaboration. The ECRI Institute and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, two nationally recognized safety experts, collaborated with the foundation in its first safety initiative, the Regional Medication Safety Program. This program received national recognition by various organizations including the Joint Commission (JCAHO). Given the seriousness of the issues posed by MRSA and other multi-drug resistant organisms, The Health Care Improvement Foundation is uniquely positioned to facilitate a campaign to coordinate regional responses to this challenge.