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100,000 Lives Campaign Success Stories

About Engaging Patients & Families

Learn about hospitals partnering with patients and families to improve health care


About Preventing Adverse Drug Events


Read about hospitals meeting the challenge of medication reconciliation


View a PowerPoint presentation on the lessons learned from a Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors and Massachusetts Hospital Association collaborative


Find out how McLeod Regional Medical Center made hospital-wide improvements to reduce ADEs


About Improving Care for Acute Myocardial Infarction

Find out how Immanuel St. Joseph's reduced their AMI mortality


Learn how DuBois Regional Medical Center has improved outcomes for AMI patients


Read about hospitals delivering timely, reliable AMI care


About Deploying Rapid Response Teams

Learn about how Rapid Response Teams can save lives and raise nursing morale


Read about the growing use of pediatric Rapid Response Teams


Learn about UHHS - Richmond Heights' "rapid success"


See how Rapid Response Teams are taking hold at hospitals across the U.S.


View Virginia Mason Medical Center’s “Initiating MET (a/k/a Rapid Response Team): Successes and Challenges”


Read a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about UPMC Shadyside's MET (a/k/a Rapid Response Team)


About Preventing Surgical Site Infections

Read about North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System's zero tolerance for nosocomial infections

See how organizations participating in national initiatives are reducing their surgical site infection rates


About Preventing VAPs and CRBSIs

Learn how hospital teams have brought their units’ monthly VAP rates down to zero and are sustaining those gains


Find out how hospitals that eliminate hospital-acquired infections save lives (and money)


Read about Owensboro Medical Health System's success in reducing VAPs after implementing the Ventilator Bundle

Learn about Swedish Medical Center's efforts to eliminate VAPs


View a PowerPoint presentation on Overlake Hospital's participation in the IHI Critical Care Collaborative


Find out about the University of Rochester/Strong Memorial Health's success in implementing the Ventilator Bundle across their critical care units


Learn about HealthPartners' Regions Hospital's use of the Ventilator and Central Line Bundles


Read about organizations committed to eradicating Central Line Infections


See how hospitals have virtually eliminated Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia 



About Multiple Interventions

Read Henry Ford Hospital's 100,000 Lives Campaign Progress Report