Fletcher Allen, a Vermont university hospital and medical center, serves all of
Vermont and the northern New York region. Located in Burlington, Fletcher Allen is a regional, academic healthcare center and teaching hospital in alliance with the University of Vermont.
The James M. Jeffords Institute for Quality and Operational Effectiveness
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The James M. Jeffords Institute for Quality and Operational Effectiveness at Fletcher Allen is dedicated to supporting the organization's efforts to achieve our vision: to be a national model for the delivery of high quality academic health care for a rural region.
As part of that effort, the Institute is focused on ensuring that Fletcher Allen meets its strategic goals in the area of quality, patient safety and operational efficiency.
Improving Quality and Patient Safety
The Institute provides resources that advance Fletcher Allen's mission while promoting quality and patient safety.
These resources include:
- Measurement: providing expert analysis of data to support clinical research, clinical and operational process improvement and ongoing monitoring of performance indicators.
- Patient safety: focusing on proactive risk reduction and promotion of patient safety initiatives.
- Patient and family advocacy: providing support to patients and families through advocacy and deployment of risk mitigation strategies.
- Regulatory: developing, coordinating, and implementing strategies that keep our organization in a state of constant regulatory readiness, ensuring that processes are in place to provide care of the highest quality and safety for our patients and to meet and respond to the requirements of our regulators.
- Quality consultation: providing expertise in project management and all relevant analytic and process improvement techniques are available to serve the needs of the organization.
- Infection prevention: working to reduce and prevent health care-associated infections.
Senator James M. Jeffords' Contributions to Health Care
In 2006, the Institute was named after Senator James M. Jeffords in recognition of his leadership in promoting health care quality and patient safety during his 32 years of service to Vermont as a United States Senator.
Highlights of Senator Jeffords’ achievements include serving as chairman of the U.S Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and playing a leadership role in every major health care initiative to come before Congress during his tenure, including FDA reform, the creation of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Patient Bill of Rights.
Through all these efforts, Senator Jeffords helped bring the issues of health care quality and patient safety to national prominence.
Related Documents |
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| Preventing Infections | Download PDF |
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| Reducing Health Care - Associated Infections | Download PDF |
| Vermont Blueprint Project | Download PDF |
| Organization Chart | Download PDF |
| Measurement Group Description | Download PDF |
| Publications Listing | Download PDF |
| Presentations 2008 - 2009 | Download PDF |
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