N.C. Children's Center for Clinical Excellence aims to build a sustainable quality improvement (QI) infrastructure at N.C. Children's Hospital. We provide experiential learning for faculty, staff, and trainees by integrating QI projects and training in our inpatient, outpatient, community, and international settings. These efforts assist the Children's Hospital in achieving the Institute of Medicine aims of providing patient-centered, effective, timely, efficient, equitable, and safe care to all children served by the Children’s Hospital. Visit Programs & Initiatives to find out more about our current programs, including Improving Pediatric Critical Care, TeamSTEPPS, and the Pediatric Residency QI Program.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
CCE Faculty published in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
Family Alert: Implementing Direct Family Activation of a Pediatric Rapid Response Team appears in the November 2009 issue of the The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. The paper is authored by CCE Co-Director and Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Tina Schade Willis, MD. For more information about Family Activation, please visit our Pediatric Rapid Response System web page.
N.C. Children's Hospital Rapid Response System Profiled on AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange
The September 30, 2009 issue of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Innovations Exchange featured the N.C. Children's Hospital's Pediatric Rapid Response System. For more information, please visit the innovation profile titled Family-Activated Pediatric Rapid Response Team Increases Calls From Both Families and Staff, Supports Improvements in Outcomes and our Pediatric Rapid Response System web page.
CCE joins N.C. Children's Hospital in celebrating 175 days without a non-ICU/ED pediatric cardiac arrest
Four years ago, the faculty and staff of N.C. Children's Hospital set out to reduce the number of pediatric cardiac arrests through the use of the Pediatric Rapid Response System. They have achieved impressive results, and today (11/8/09) marks the 175th day without a non-ICU/ED cardiac arrest at the Children's Hospital. Over the past 175 days, faculty, staff, students, and families at the Children's Hospital have placed 43 Pediatric Rapid Response calls. Thanks to their dedication to patient safety and the hard work of the responding teams, arrests have been prevented and lives have been saved.
We join with the Children's Hospital and all who have contributed to the care of our pediatric patients in celebrating this remarkable achievement. Thank you for your hard work and continued efforts!
Please visit the Pediatric Rapid Response System web page for more information.