Case Studies
The American Hospital Association produces case studies on its member organizations across a wide range of health-care topics.
In 2019, leaders at St. Joseph’s Hospital of Buckhannon in West Virginia, a critical access hospital, realized they needed to strengthen their security presence and add safety controls to their facility.
security presence and add safety controls to their
facility.
From 2019 to 2020, Omaha, Neb.-based CHI Health reduced staff assaults resulting in injuries by 50%.
Keeping staff safe from aggressive patients and
visitors is top of mind at Louisville, Ky.- based Norton
Children’s Hospital.
Winona Health
Southwestern Vermont Health Care. Bennington, Vermont (SVHC) partners with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health and is an integrated non-profit health system that includes a 99-bed hospital, 25 primary care and specialty care practices, and two nursing homes.
Sky Lakes Medical Center (SLMC), located in Klamath Falls, Oregon, is a rural, not-for-profit, community-owned, internationally accredited acute-care teaching hospital. It is licensed for 176 beds and offers a full range of inpatient and outpatient services, including the Sky Lakes Cancer Treatment…
Chatham Hospital is a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital (CAH) located in Siler City, NC. The hospital, accredited by The Joint Commission, provides surgical, medical, pediatric, maternal and emergency services. Community-based outpatient services also are offered.
Advocate Aurora Health, dual headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., and Downers Grove, Ill., made event reporting a top priority by recognizing it as a strategic organizational goal. Staff developed an internal formula to standardize safety event reporting data and compare incident levels throughout 100…
Between 2019 and 2020, Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) in
California put in place a multifaceted workplace violence prevention plan to
protect its health care personnel from aggressive and violent behavior.
Mary Washington Healthcare entered into an academic practice partnership with Germanna Community College to meet workforce and clinical needs for the future. The Earn While You Learn model accelerates practice readiness by bridging the gap between education and clinical practice while addressing…