Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
  • 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
As all hospitals face bed capacity challenges, our administrators were developing a deceleration plan for procedural patients who require inpatient stays. To support our growing volume of procedural patients, we needed to explore options for sending our patients home rather than admitting them. We developed post-procedural criteria for patients undergoing cardiac catheterization or electrophysiology procedures.
  • 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
Patients who require intensive care but are boarded in the emergency department (ED) are at high risk of poor outcomes. We designed a program to use existing virtual ICU services for comprehensive consult and monitoring services to manage patients waiting for an ICU bed, and in many cases allowing for a lower level of care at time of admission. In addition to safely caring for critically ill patients boarding in any of our four EDs, this program enabled external transfers to be admitted to our quaternary academic hospital when they otherwise would not have been.
  • 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
Houston Methodist Hospital is one of the largest tertiary care hospitals in the nation. Bed capacity is vital to maintain high surgical volumes and keep a busy emergency department moving. On returning to normal operations as we were emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, we found that hospital length of stay (LOS) was rising, the ED was getting more crowded and operating room holds were becoming commonplace. When patients were ready to be discharged, there were delays in post-acute placement. It was a perfect storm of obstacles to smooth patient throughput, resulting in gridlock.
  • 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
Tampa General Hospital (TGH) is a large, academic tertiary care center and safety net hospital with over 50,000 discharges and 30,000 surgical procedures per year, making efficient patient flow critical. TGH uses the GE Command Center (CareComm) to dynamically monitor patient care operations and throughput with real-time artificial intelligence (AI) applications (“tiles”). The tiles include Patient Manager, Imaging Expediter and Discharge Barriers.
  • 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
Following a strategic redesign of our academic emergency department (ED) operating model, a process improvement project was undertaken to address our capacity constraints and the challenge of seeing patients in a timely manner. Leadership identified an area of opportunity in the care of our lower-acuity patients. A multidisciplinary group created a novel plan to redesign the front-end processes to better address the care of these lower-acuity patients and mitigate capacity constraints that were outside the control of the ED’s clinical leadership. 
  • 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
In health systems across the country, reducing length of stay (LOS) while maintaining high levels of quality and safety is an operational imperative. Through careful examination of radiology’s operational data, as well as real-world observations of workflow, our team identified an opportunity to improve the way in which radiology staff prioritize their workload.
  • 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
Post-COVID-19, our organization faced significant capacity and patient flow challenges, resulting in the hospital’s inpatient capacity being exceeded every day. We undertook an improvement effort to implement: 1) geographic cohorting, 2) clinical pathways to reduce variation and improve efficiency and quality of care, 3) disciplined daily work such as huddles and multidisciplinary rounds, and 4) development of a post-acute care network.
  • 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
Understanding and managing throughput is fundamental to a hospital’s ability to provide effective and expeditious patient care. Stony Brook Medicine’s mission is to provide a safe, compassionate and efficient experience by creating a pull system of flow wherein appropriate patients are discharged in a timely manner, resulting in increased bed turnover and shorter emergency department (ED) holds for admitted patients.
  • 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 created a risk-stratified, reliable system of care to support patient transitions and create better cohesion between inpatient and post-discharge provider care, reduce barriers to transitional care management (TCM) billing, study and leverage digital engagement technology at discharge, and layer efficiency into TCM without compromising value. Leveraging automation augmented our approach to transitional support across primary 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
The COVID-19 pandemic forced the healthcare industry to deliver care in ways no one imagined. Not only were healthcare systems forever changed, but so were the lives of patients. Gone are the days of a standard hospitalization and multiple options when the time came for discharge, as well as the practice approach to which our providers were accustomed.

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