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Awards Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership The MHA Keystone Center is a proud recipient of the 2012 Dick Davidson award. This award is presented annually to a state, regional or metropolitan hospital association that, through its programs and activities, demonstrates exceptional organizational leadership and innovation in quality improvement and has made significant contributions to the measurable improvement of quality within its geographic area. Shining Star Award The MHA Keystone Center received a Shining Star Award from Secretary of State Ruth Johnson in 2011. The Shining Star is the highest honor the Secretary of State gives to individuals and organizations for outstanding efforts in support of the cause of organ donation. National Eisenberg Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality Award from the National Quality Forum and The Joint Commission This award, won by the MHA in 2009, recognized the MHA's quality improvement collaborative to focus on interventions to improve patient safety and prevent harm in intensive care units (ICUs). The MHA Keystone Center was recognized for using a quality improvement collaborative to focus on interventions to improve patient safety and prevent harm in ICU. The award showcased that two of the interventions, eliminating central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) and the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program (CUSP), had produced notable results in eliminating CLABSIs in Michigan ICUs. Crain's Health Care Hero Award In 2006, Crain's Detroit Business recognized the MHA Keystone Center with the Crain's Health Care Hero Award for outstanding achievement in health care. Crain's honors local individuals and organizations for boosting quality of care and access to it. The MHA Keystone Center project, conducted with the Johns Hopkins University Quality and Safety Research Group, was launched in 2003 to eliminate bloodstream infections and ventilator-associated pneumonia in hospital ICUs. The project, the largest of its kind in the nation, helped hospitals move practices toward those that the latest medical evidence showed reduced the possibility of infections. The big advancement, Crain's four judges said, was in creating a program that could act as a rallying point for 122 competing ICUs, including several in southeast Michigan. |
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