Denver Health: How a Safety Net System Maximizes Its Value

Denver Health: How a Safety Net System Maximizes Its Value

Case Study Highlights Denver Health’s Efforts To Improve Care as a Learning Health System

Leaders at Denver Health, a safety-net health system that treats more than 200,000 patients a year in its 525-bed hospital and 26 family health and school-based clinics, share insights in a new case study about how a learning health system (LHS) can use data to improve care. For example, surgical site infections declined after Denver Health reviewed its data and changed preoperative procedures to take patient limitations into account. CEO Robin Wittenstein discusses Denver Health’s approach to improving outcomes with data, culture and workforce investments as part of a series of four real-world case studies developed by AHRQ to help C-suite leaders better understand what it takes to create an LHS.