Engagement through Continuous Quality Improvement Efforts Lauren Menor
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Engagement through Continuous Quality Improvement Efforts Lauren Menor, MPH PCMH Lead, QI Coordinator And Mary Pinckney, RN Director of Nursing
Discussion • • PCMH recognition Current Care Teams Structure Portal Implementation Engagement through Continuous Quality Improvement Efforts QI Findings Connecting QI to Care Teams Next Steps Questions 2
PCMH Recognition 3
Our current structure Care team dyad • Provider and MA sit next to each other in same office – Maximizes office visit through fast and efficient communication – Informal review of documents, treatments, and brief discussion how to handle patients that usually take a long time 4
Patient Portal Implementation Successes: • Go-live: End of July 2014 – Total Enrolled: ~300 – Total Pending: 900 Barriers: • Adoption by Hispanic culture • Age groups • Access 5
Engagement through Continuous Quality Improvement Efforts • VCH Board • Survey research • Focus groups …helps us generate a baseline to provide future guidance to our care teams to execute the services needed by our unique patient population… 6
QI Findings • We are changing the way we are scheduling appointments • As of July 1, 2014, we became Valley Community Healthcare – Operational changes and upgrades 7
Connecting QI Efforts to Care Teams: Diabetes Management Using our diabetes patient measures to build curriculum on diabetes control and management – Preliminary Objectives • To provide an environment for diabetes patients that fosters healthy competition to bring Hb. A 1 c levels down • To educate patients and families on managing diabetes 8
Next Steps • Expand patient portal access to all patients interested in order to meet MU goals • Implement Next. Gen. EDI for automated system for reminder calls for next day • Refine and formalize care team dyad through Standardized Procedures/Orders • Develop care team conferences to include LVN Care Manager for High Risk patients and Behavioral Health 9
Thank you! 10
Questions? 11
- Quality assurance model in nursing management
- Compliance vs quality
- Continuous quality improvement plan example
- Define continuous quality improvement
- Continuous quality improvement program planning worksheet
- Past progressive parallel actions
- Present continuous past continuous future continuous
- Jhm irb
- What is qsen
- Quality improvement paradigm
- Pocqi ppt
- Efmd quality improvement system