Case Study: Lafayette General Health achieves enterprise-wide quality and compliance improvements across multiple facilities with Cerner eQualityCheck

Lafayette General Health’s enterprise-wide quality measure initiative improves compliance across multiple facilities

Lafayette General Health, anchored by the 365‑bed Lafayette General Medical Center in Lafayette, LA, launched an enterprise-wide quality measure initiative to standardize evidence-based care and improve compliance across multiple facilities. The challenge was to reliably document, monitor and scale performance on numerous measures—VTE, influenza vaccination, stroke, perinatal and ED metrics—so patients would consistently receive better outcomes.

By deploying Cerner’s eQualityCheck and Cerner Submission Services, nurses gained real‑time visibility into measure status, reduced abstraction time and could prioritize time‑sensitive items. In 2015 the system met 24 of 26 measures—including five months of 100% VTE and a 99% influenza vaccine rate—and delivered notable gains (pediatric asthma +17.65%, perinatal exclusive breastfeeding +6.53%, ED-1 +8.61%). The enterprise rollout produced local wins as well: St. Martin VTE-1 +78.44%, University Hospital saved ~300 hours and halved abstraction time, Abrom Kaplan cut abstraction time per case by 66.7%, and Lafayette General Surgical Hospital maintained 100% VTE-1.

Lafayette General Health

Joan Stokes

AVP of Quality