Why it matters: U.S. News and World Report recently recognized 26 Intermountain Health hospitals as high performing in maternity care. That kind of consistency across so many hospitals doesn’t just happen.
The big picture: Dr. Sean Esplin, senior medical director of women’s health at Intermountain Health, says improvement starts with a simple question: Is there a better way to do this?
How it works: Through Intermountain’s Healthcare Delivery Institute, teams:
- Look at what the research shows actually works
- Test new approaches that have proven results
- Get those better methods to patients as quickly as possible
- Roll out what works across all their hospitals
The bottom line: “You can look at every aspect of care that we provide and say, what is the best way to do this? What does the literature tell us? And take an evidence-based approach and then do that across the system and eliminate variation. And that brings everybody up, brings all the quality up,” Esplin explains.
What’s next: This approach shows how health systems can raise the bar on patient care by asking better questions and quickly putting proven solutions into action.