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Portland, Ore. — March 2, 2007 — The Oregon 5M Lives Network announced the kick-off of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI)
5 Million Lives Campaign in the state. A national effort to dramatically reduce incidents of medical harm in U.S. hospitals, the 5 Million Lives Campaign challenges hospitals across the nation to adopt 12 changes in care that save lives and reduce patient injuries. Its goal is to protect patients from five million incidents of medical harm over the next two years, ending December 2008. Already, 44 Oregon hospitals are participating in the IHI Campaign.
Six Oregon-based organizations — Acumentra Health, CareOregon, Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (OAHHS), Oregon Medical Association (OMA), Oregon Nurses Association (ONA), and the Oregon Patient Safety Commission — have joined forces as the Oregon 5M Lives Network to promote and support the campaign in the state. Many of these organizations participated in IHI’s successful 100,000 Lives Campaign, which concluded last year. The 5 Million Lives Campaign builds upon the success of that campaign, in which 3,100 participating hospitals nationwide reduced inpatient deaths by an estimated 122,000 over an 18-month period.
“IHI has established bold objectives and a concrete goal. The Oregon 5M Lives Network and Oregon hospitals are proud to support the campaign through a collaborative statewide effort,” said Gwen Dayton, JD, executive vice president and general counsel of OAHHS, speaking for the Oregon 5M Lives Network and OAHHS.
Of the 12 changes in patient care the 5 Million Lives Campaign promotes, the first six are proven interventions successfully used in the 100,000 Lives Campaign. The remaining six are new interventions that will further enhance care to save lives and reduce patient injuries.
Existing interventions:
- Deploy Rapid Response Teams… at the first sign of patient decline
- Deliver Reliable, Evidence-based Care for Acute Myocardial Infarction… to prevent deaths from heart attack
- Prevent Adverse Drug Events (ADEs)… by implementing medication reconciliation
- Prevent Central Line Infections… by implementing a series of interdependent, scientifically grounded steps
- Prevent Surgical Site Infections… by reliably delivering the correct perioperative antibiotics at the proper time
- Prevent Ventilator-associated Pneumonia… by implementing a series of interdependent, scientifically grounded steps
New interventions:
- Prevent Harm from High-alert Medications… starting with a focus on anticoagulants, sedatives, narcotics, and insulin
- Reduce Surgical Complications… by reliably implementing all of the changes recommended by SCIP, the Surgical Care Improvement Project (www.medqic.org/scip)
- Prevent Pressure Ulcers… by reliably using science-based guidelines for their prevention
- Reduce Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Infection… by reliably implementing scientifically proven infection control practices
- Deliver Reliable, Evidence-based Care for Congestive Heart Failure… to avoid readmissions
- Get Boards on Board… by defining and spreading the best-known leveraged processes for hospital boards of directors, so that they become far more effective in accelerating organizational progress toward safe care
For more information about each campaign intervention, please visit www.ihi.org/ihi/programs/campaign
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Oregon 5M Lives Network:
Acumentra Health, Stacy Aguas, 503-382-3918, www.acumentra.org
CareOregon, Jeanne Lunsford, 503-416-1725, www.careoregon.org
Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems, Gwen Dayton, 503-479-6009, www.oahhs.org
Oregon Medical Association, Paul Frisch, 503-226-1555, www.theoma.org
Oregon Nurses Association, Susan King, 503-293-0011, www.oregonrn.org
Oregon Patient Safety Commission, Leslie Ray, 503-224-9927, www.oregonpatientsafety.org
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