Acute Care
How Does Acute Care Work at Partners HealthCare?
Acute care provides treatment for short-term or serious injury or illness. Speed and timeliness are particularly important in acute care. Surgery and emergency services are examples of acute care. Acute care is a major strength at Partners: our Academic Medical Centers specialize in addressing the most complex medical problems, providing access to world-class practitioners, and using the latest technology. Our Academic Medical Centers partner seamlessly with our community hospitals to deliver world-class care across New England.
The Partners System at Work
- At Partners, we evaluate data provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) among others to assess the quality of acute care at our hospitals and specialty care centers.
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Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) take us even further, helping us understand what matters most to patients: improving their quality of life.
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We also use our own electronic health record, Partners eCare, to share best practices and implement important life-saving alerts such as sepsis symptoms.
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By analyzing this wealth of data, we can better measure the relationship between treatment and patient outcomes, gaining insight on important issues such as length of hospital stay, readmission rates, opioid use in the Emergency Department and hospital, and patient safety across the system.
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We see the results everywhere at Partners: on our innovative clinical collaborations; on our Care Decisions program; on our transition protocols that deliver the right care at the right place; and on how we are able identify and disseminate best practices across our network.
Patient Impact
45
QUALITY AND SAFETY COLLABORATIVES
10
ACUTE TREATMENT CENTERS
1,341
Telestroke
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FEATURED MEASURES
Stroke: Get With The GuidelinesⓇ/PAA Defect-Free Composite Measure
To track care quality and outcomes around stroke care, we rely on the Get With The GuidelinesⓇ (GWTG) measures from the American Heart Association’s collaborative performance improvement program. Seven GWTG/PAA Defect-Free Measures are used to gauge how well a hospital provides all appropriate interventions to each patient.
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This Get With The Guidelines® Aggregate Data report was generated using the IQVIA Patient Management Tool® system. Copy or distribution of the Get With The Guidelines® Aggregate Data is prohibited without the prior written consent of the American Heart Association and IQVIA.
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This Get With The Guidelines® Aggregate Data report was generated using the IQVIA Patient Management Tool® system. Copy or distribution of the Get With The Guidelines® Aggregate Data is prohibited without the prior written consent of the American Heart Association and IQVIA.
Stroke: Time to Intravenous Anti-Blood Clot Therapy
Studies have found that the sooner ischemic stroke patients receive a type of medication called IV t-PA, which is used to dissolve blood clots, the greater their chance of returning home and resuming a normal lifestyle. IV t-PA must be given to patients in the first few hours after the start of symptoms and only in patients who meet a strict set of criteria. Therefore, only a small percentage of stroke patients are eligible for this treatment. Among ischemic patients who received IV t-PA, this measure looks at the percentage who received IV t-PA, within 60 minutes of arrival to the hospital.
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This Get With The Guidelines® Aggregate Data report was generated using the IQVIA Payment Management Tool® system. Copy or distribution of the Get With The Guidelines® Aggregate Data is prohibited without the prior written consent of the American Heart Association and IQVIA.
*Please note that Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital and North Shore Medical Center had a small sample size (10 cases or less) for this data period and their results are not shown.
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This Get With The Guidelines® Aggregate Data report was generated using the IQVIA Payment Management Tool® system. Copy or distribution of the Get With The Guidelines® Aggregate Data is prohibited without the prior written consent of the American Heart Association and IQVIA.
*Please note that Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital and North Shore Medical Center had a small sample size (10 cases or less) for some data periods and these results are not shown.
Case Studies
Here you will find case studies reporting on the quality of the care we deliver for common conditions.
View all case studies.Innovations and Clinical Collaborations
Learn more about what Partners is doing to improve acute care.
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