GHLI Programs in Egypt
From 2009-2011, the National Bank of Egypt (NBE) and the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute joined together to strengthen health delivery systems and improve health outcomes in Egypt. The initiative approached health systems strengthening thorough the lens of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in Egypt.
GHLI and the NBE established a data registry for patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes in Egypt as an investment in the data infrastructure needed to measure quality of care, identify gaps and priorities, and evaluate work to improve performance. This data has been used by participating hospitals to inform quality improvement efforts, by medical residents as applied training experience in measurement and quality improvement, and shared with national, regional and global scientific communities as the first systematic assessment of care for cardiovascular patients in Egypt.
GHLI and the NBE also established the Hospital Strengthening Initiative at the National Heart Institute. Through training and mentoring, improvement teams reduced waiting time for procedures and crowding in the Cardiac Catheterization lab; designed and implemented a barcode-based inventory management system for the Cardiac Catheterization labs; and developed a more effective work plan to improve patient flow in the outpatient clinics to be implemented pending facility renovation.
Throughout the two-year partnership, GHLI worked to transfer data management and quality improvement tools and skills to our colleagues at the NBE and in partnering hospital sites where health systems strengthening efforts continue today.
Yale professors Harlan Krumholz, M.D., and Elizabeth Bradley, Ph.D., served as co-directors of the program.
