RUSH reduces readmissions

Adjusting patient care delivery based on real-time data leads to improved outcomes

Data analytic tools and innovative strategies help RUSH identify and lower readmissions rates for high-utilizer patients

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Stronger data partnerships

Tailoring care based on clinical measures and benchmarks

A nationally recognized academic health system, Rush University System for Health, applied trends and insights from the Vizient Clinical Data Base (CDB) with best practices from Vizient Performance Improvement Stroke and High Utilizer Collaboratives resulting in 27 fewer readmissions and $694,000 in estimated savings.

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Being able to quantify and compare metrics against some of the world’s best hospitals helped our teams accelerate what we’re doing well and identify opportunities to make everything go right, one patient at a time.

Brian Stein, MD
Chief Quality Officer, RUSH University Medical Center

4 vital steps RUSH took to reduce readmission rates

These are RUSH’s top four learnings from a readmissions-reduction initiative led by Dr. Brian Stein, chief quality officer, and Tom Webb, former associate vice president of quality analytics.

Have the right data. RUSH uses the CDB to drive benchmarking and performance improvement.
Understand your patient population. Assess commonalities for frequently readmitted patients and social determinants of health.
Connect the dots across multiple services. Connect services to manage patient care, remove barriers and ensure care continuity so no patients slip through the cracks.
Gain leadership buy-in. Make reducing readmissions an organizational priority at every level cascading quality goals from top.

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RUSH ranks as a leader among academic health systems

Top 5
RUSH University Medical Center’s ranks among participants in Vizient’s academic medical center rankings for the past nine years
All A's
All three RUSH hospitals received the highest possible Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade in the spring 2023
Top 20
RUSH University Medical Center’s rank on U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals Honor Roll for the past three year in a row