Quality Reports

• NCI Community Clinical Oncology Program
• Gundersen Lutheran selected to participate in National Cancer Institute program
• Western Wisconsin’s best-equipped radiation therapy program
• Expanded clinical trials enhance cancer care
• Educating the next generation of hematologists and medical oncologists
• Robotics technology now used routinely for prostatectomies
• Taking cancer research to the next level
• New BioBank initiative aids cancer research
• A national leader in advancing lung cancer research
• 5-year survival rates
• Cancer Program Practice Profile Reports (CP³R): for Breast, Colon and Rectal Cancers

• Priority One removes time barriers, opens blocked arteries quickly 
• Exceptional care for interventional cardiology procedures
• High-quality treatment for arrhythmias
• Excellence in heart surgery
• Minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting leads to faster healing for patients
• Controlling blood glucose during cardiothoracic surgery
• Care for congestive heart failure patients 

Eye Institute

• Excellence in cataract surgery
• Regional leaders in laser vision correction (LASIK)
• Vision correction for highly myopic patients
• Relieving intraocular pressure
• Outstanding success with intraocular injections
• Achieving excellence in eyelid surgeries
• Restoring and improving vision
• Repairing blocked tear ducts
• Surgically treating strabismus patients

• Improved pre-admission teaching and testing
• Insulin-drip protocol 
• Interdisciplinary Rounding
• Medical Response Team 
• Patient flow improvements 
• Point of care delays reduced 

• 2011 Quality Outcomes

• Improve efficiencies & eliminate waste
• Organ donation 
• Partial Hospitalization Program helps patients understand illness, gain coping skills

Nephrology and Renal Dialysis

• Hemodialysis success
• Controlling anemia
• Nutrition management for hemodialysis patients
• Reducing infection risk through fistula placement
• Controlling blood pressure and cholesterol
• Facilitating advance care planning discussions

Neurosciences

• Disc Arthroplasty Outcomes 
• Comprehensive stroke care
• Secondary stroke prevention
• Providing high-quality neurosurgery care
• Leading-edge disc arthroplasty surgery
• Avoiding post dural punctures
• Follow-up care for sleep apnea patients
• Behavior modification for vocal cord dysfunction
• Voice therapy for vocal cord nodules

Obstetrics & Gynecology and Fertility

• Avoiding complications during vaginal births
• An experienced, highly skilled nurse midwifery program
• Cesarean section rates among lowest in the country
• Successful approach to VBAC
• Avoiding post dural punctures during epidural analgesia
• Working to prevent unplanned readmissions
• Above average in vitro fertilization success rates

Patient Safety

• Improved care for patients on anticoagulants 
• Preventing VAP in critically ill patients 
• Relieving pressure and improving patient care 
• Safety huddles enhance patient safety and engage staff 

• Quality Measures for Children’s Healthcare
• Avoiding UTI misdiagnosis in children
• Improving immunization rates
• Effectively managing pediatric asthma patients
• Extensive experience in intensive pediatric diabetes management
• Caring for the tiniest patients
• Improving surfactant administration, decreasing pneumothorax incidence
• Preventing late bacterial infections in preterm infants
• Supporting breastfeeding for NICU infants

• System-wide changes lead to improved osteoporosis screening for hip fracture patients 
• Bettering surgical outcomes through the Surgical Care Improvement Program
• Providing high-quality care for foot and ankle surgeries
• Therapies offer better-than-expected functional outcomes

Surgery

• Surgical safety checklist 
• Therapeutic endoscopy of bile & pancreatic ducts