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Summary Reports

Title Date Type

Pediatric Immunization Rate Improvement at Park Nicollet Health Services

Park Nicollet increased the percentage of 24-month old children seen for clinic visits who had received all scheduled immunizations from 78% to 94%. The percentage of 24-month old children who received an immunization for varicella as well as all scheduled immunizations increased from 42% to 88%. Improvements were achieved using provider-specific lists of 18-month old patients, institution of a visit planning approach, use of pre-printed orders for routine immunizations, and other measures.

03/31/2003 Summary Reports

Preventive Services - Sustaining Improvement at Three Medical Groups

HealthPartners Medical Group, Park Nicollet Health Services & Quello Clinic created systems to ensure that patients’ preventive services are up-to-date. This report summarizes the key strategies they used to maintain a high rate over several years. (3/01)

05/20/2002 Summary Reports

Preventive Services Improvement at HealthPartners

This report highlights the work of the best practice clinic within HealthPartners that has achieved rates over 90% of ten key preventive services up-to-date. (HealthPartners Medical Group, 11/98)

03/03/2002 Summary Reports

Primary Care Delivery System at Quello Clinic

Quello Clinic developed a primary care delivery system model that addresses the continuum of care. Some features include population identification, previsit planning, preventive intervention, self management support, & planned follow-up. (7/00)

05/15/2002 Summary Reports

Tobacco Cessation Program Patient Survey at North Clinic

North Clinic developed & implemented a Tobacco Cessation Program to provide support to patients in their efforts to quit smoking. This report describes the process used to survey patients to identify ways of improving the support provided. (12/99)

05/14/2002 Summary Reports

Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Improvement at Family HealthServices Minnesota

Family HealthServices Minnesota implemented a series of steps to improve the documentation of tobacco status. The percentage of patients whose use status was documented and who were advised to quit increased and the smoking prevalence rate decreased. (4/03)

07/11/2003 Summary Reports