The Center for Clinical Effectiveness (CCE) identifies ways to improve the quality and value of the health-care services that Loyola University Health System provides. After areas for improvement are identified, the center coordinates and helps prioritize those performance-improvement activities and efforts across Loyola. Once safety and quality improvement activities are completed, the CCE shares the performance improvement results within Loyola and externally to the community at large.
The CCE’s quality and safety improvement plans involve Loyola physicians, nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals, administrators, managers, staff and contractors. Quality and safety improvement plans focus on improving key functions within Loyola. Such functions range from patient-focused areas such as rights and responsibilities and medication management to organizational functions of leadership and management of information.