2010 OPSI Best Practice Award

Thank you to the 29 health care organizations who submitted best practices for OPSI's second annual Best Practice Award. OPSI's Best Practice Award honors successful patient safety activities used in Ohio health care institutions. 

Winner:

Aultman Hospital - Reduction of Catheter-Associated Blood Stream Infections in the NICU

Finalists:

Mount Carmel Health System - Reduction of Blood Transfusions after Open Heart Surgery

St. Elizabeth Health Center - Improvement of Patient Safety in the ICU

Euclid Hospital - Active Culture Surveillance to Eliminate MRSA Colonization

Marietta Memorial Hospital - Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Reduction

Criteria for judging includes:

• Measurable goal established

• Goal attained and sustained for certain length of time

• Replicability

• Regional and national benchmarks researched, identified

• Multidisciplinary Approach was used

• Systematic Approach

• Innovative Component

2009 Best Practice Award

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) presented the first annual OPSI Best Practice Award at the OHA annual Meeting June 15 to The Children's Medical Center of Dayton for the Reduction of Ventilator-associated pneumonia in the children's population. Read more about the 2009 winner and the runner-ups.