Our Center's main areas of project activity are:

·        The Emergency Room

·        Departments of Medicine

·        Departments of Surgery

·        Obstetrics and Gynecology

·        Radiology

·     Cross-institutional projects

·        Projects involving quality outside Hadassah, health promotion or decision analysis

Completed and current projects at Hadassah include:

·   Promoting a healthy campus at Hadassah

·        Healthy lifestyle behavior counseling of patients by medical students

·        Reducing intimidating behavior among Hadassah staff

·        Preventing delivery room acquired infections

·        Increasing hand hygiene compliance by hospital staff

·        Reducing rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients on respirators

·        Medication reconciliation

·        Allowing a family member to be present during doctors' rounds

·        Does medical school educate for professional values?

·        Catheter-related bloodstream infections: 62% rate reduction after an intervention

·        The potential role of Xray technicians and mobile radiography equipment in the transmission of multi-resistant drug resistant bacteria in the ICU

·        An economic evaluation of physical activity and implications for its promotion

·        Quality of care at end-of-life

Other activities of our Center include workshops, presentations and publications at national and international forums.

In June, 2006, our Center conducted a seminar on the patients' right law and end-of-life decision-making.  In November of that year, we offered a two-week course on palliative care.  In 2011, we began workshops at the National Medical Simulation Center to improve the quality of communication at end-of-life between staff, families and patients.

Coumadin instruction kits for patients and their family physicians, the first of its kind in Israel, were developed by our Center.  Hadassah's patients are responding enthusiastically to the new coumadin kits and Israel's medical community has been positively impressed.  Some of the HMOs, such as Leumit and Maccabi, have started using the kits for their patients.