Over the past several years, the Greater New York Hospital Association and the United Hospital Fund have partnered to create programs that support infrastructure development and change in the hope of affecting a total paradigm shift in the way hospitals approach quality and patient safety. More simply, GNYHA and UHF are working with hospitals to move beyond simply preventing mistakes to create an entirely new hospital culture focused on patient-centered care, a system that builds in quality and safety assurances in every touch of the patient from intake to release. The catalyst for this culture change is the Collaborative. This section includes information about all of the GNYHA/UHF collaborative projects; please note that these programs are also cross-referenced by topic in the other GNYHA Quality sub-sections.

• Central Line-Associate Bloodstream Infections Collaborative
  GNYHA, in partnership with the United Hospital Fund, has identified the reduction of central line-associated bloodstream infections as a model project to help achieve sustainable quality improvement and thus save thousands of lives.
                
• Critical Care Leadership Network
  Building from the success of the “CLABs Collaborative,” in August 2006, GNYHA—in partnership with the United Hospital Fund (UHF)—launched the Critical Care Leadership Network (CCLN). The CCLN's primary goal is to optimize the region's critical care services by sharing and standardizing the implementation of evidence-based practices to improve patient outcomes in the intensive care unit.
                      
• Perinatal Safety Collaborative
  The GNYHA/UHF Perinatal Safety Collaborative is a clinical quality improvement initiative, and the changes necessary to achieve the goals of the collaboration will require an interdisciplinary and multi-departmental approach across the participating hospitals.
                           
• Rapid Response Systems Collaborative
  GNYHA, in partnership with the United Hospital Fund, is working with hospitals to implement Rapid Response Systems (RRS), whereby a designated team of clinicians identifies high-risk patients, responds to early signs of acute deterioration, and brings critical care expertise to the bedside before patients decline into a critical state.