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- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
We describe a multidisciplinary team at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist that reviews possible hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) and adverse events that fall under patient safety indicators (PSIs) or pediatric quality indicators (PDIs). This committee was formed in 2014 but has matured substantially over the years. The committee, composed of C-suite champions, physicians, quality staff, inpatient coders and clinical documentation stakeholders, functions in a highly organized fashion to expeditiously review all cases with an identified possible adverse event.
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
While chest radiography in intensive care units (ICUs) is necessary for many reasons, repeat X-rays required because of poor image quality can result in unnecessary patient exposure to radiation as well as additional costs. Upon review of our benchmark data in the Vizient Clinical Data Base Resource Manager, we determined that our utilization of chest X-rays in our three pediatric ICUs was higher than our similar Vizient peer hospitals.
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Diabetes affects 6% to 10% of all pregnancies in the U.S. and is associated with maternal and neonatal morbidities. To help mitigate these risks, we implemented the use of a remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform integrated into the electronic health record for glycemic surveillance and management of diabetes in pregnancy. RPM allows providers to monitor, report and analyze a patient’s health condition outside the hospital or office setting.
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Neonates who have undergone intestinal surgery are at risk for developing malnutrition and intestinal failure-associated liver disease in the postoperative period. Current neonatal literature is inconclusive about the ideal nutritional management of this patient population. Taking a quality improvement approach, one neonatal intensive care unit, through multidisciplinary collaboration and a shared mental model, created new evidence-based guidelines and processes to reduce practitioner-related variation in care.
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Executing a growth strategy is a challenge, but it pales in comparison to learning you may have breast cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, approximately one in eight women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. An interdisciplinary team at Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital successfully deployed a differentiated growth strategy called Fast Track. The process enables patients who undergo a diagnostic mammogram at the Breast Care Center to receive a biopsy, if clinically indicated, either the same day or the next business day, provided they meet certain criteria.
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Utilizing an obstetric rapid response team for maternal emergencies such as postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is a best practice as recommended by the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative and other maternal care organizations. At University of Michigan Health Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital, employees had multiple ways, multiple people and differing thresholds on when to call for additional help in the PPH setting. The “Early Warning Team,” an obstetric rapid response team, was designed and established.
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Our overall initiative was to analyze factors affecting value-based reimbursement. We used the Vizient Clinical Data Base (CDB) to analyze length of stay (LOS), direct costs and discharge disposition. The analysis showed that we discharged to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) more often and discharged to home less often than our cohort average. We then used the CDB to analyze how use of physical and occupational therapy (PT and OT) related to LOS and discharge disposition to home rather than an SNF.
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Decreased patient mobilization negatively influenced outcomes at St Tammany Health System (STHS), and nurses couldn’t shoulder the responsibility alone. Coincidently, STHS transportation staff — adept at mobilizing patients — were experiencing high turnover, low departmental self-esteem, downtime inefficiencies and other concerns shared by acute care transportation departments nationwide. Our solution was hybridizing the transporter position, adding duties including patient mobility rounds. As a result, workload efficiency and employee satisfaction metrics at STHS markedly improved.
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Cost containment is becoming more important with the many challenges LTC/SNF are facing around regulations, reimbursements and price increases across all categories. Medicare Part B providers can help mitigate costs that these facilities would otherwise have to absorb. Many dressings and treatments are covered by insurance based on the type and stage of wounds. Partnering with a provider can not only decrease spend but help nursing provide better care and optimize patient outcomes.
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
We will discuss three main tactics to support lowering costs in an ambulatory surgery center (ASC). These tactics will provide approaches to negotiate case cost and cost management best practices.