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Facilitating Earlier Discharges To Decrease Avoidable Patient Days And Improve Flow For An Acute And Intermediate Care Unit, Natasha Bartlett Sep 2019

Facilitating Earlier Discharges To Decrease Avoidable Patient Days And Improve Flow For An Acute And Intermediate Care Unit, Natasha Bartlett

Operations Transformation

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A Coaching And Team Performance Evaluation Model To Build Capacity For High-Impact Lean Improvement, Ruth Hanselman, Mark Parker, Suneela Nayak, Stephen Tyzik, Amy Sparks Sep 2019

A Coaching And Team Performance Evaluation Model To Build Capacity For High-Impact Lean Improvement, Ruth Hanselman, Mark Parker, Suneela Nayak, Stephen Tyzik, Amy Sparks

Operations Transformation

There is abundant evidence that links a strong culture of safety with improved patient and staff experience. However, there has been no clear avenue identified as to how to achieve this metric.

A team in a large academic tertiary teaching hospital set about leveraging their daily managing system (DMS) to attain improvement in their institution’s safety. The goals of this quality improvement project were to use DMS to identify and report safety concerns and increase frontline team knowledge and comfort with reporting safety concerns during Gemba walks.

A root cause analysis identified 5 areas for improvement and several countermeasures were …


Implementation Of Trauma Service Guideline For The Use Of Phenobarbital In The Management Of The Non-Icu Trauma Patient At Risk Or Experiencing Severe Alcohol Withdrawal, Joseph Rappold, Julianne Ontengco, Stephen Tyzik, Suneela Nayak, Ruth Hanselman, Amy Sparks Sep 2019

Implementation Of Trauma Service Guideline For The Use Of Phenobarbital In The Management Of The Non-Icu Trauma Patient At Risk Or Experiencing Severe Alcohol Withdrawal, Joseph Rappold, Julianne Ontengco, Stephen Tyzik, Suneela Nayak, Ruth Hanselman, Amy Sparks

Operations Transformation

The trauma service in a large academic tertiary medical center admits a large proportion of patients with the secondary diagnosis of alcohol use disorder. Given the successful use of phenobarbital in the critical care unit for withdrawal prophylaxis and treatment of acute withdrawal, a quality improvement project was established to create and implement guidelines for the non ICU patient.

A root cause analysis demonstrated several issues to include inconsistent clinical decision documentation. As a result, several countermeasures were initiated to address the various issues.

Post implementation of countermeasures, a decrease in the amount of severe alcohol withdrawal as well as …


What's Happening: August 19, 2019, Maine Medical Center Aug 2019

What's Happening: August 19, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: August 12, 2019, Maine Medical Center Aug 2019

What's Happening: August 12, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: August 5, 2019, Maine Medical Center Aug 2019

What's Happening: August 5, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: July 29, 2019, Maine Medical Center Jul 2019

What's Happening: July 29, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: July 22, 2019, Maine Medical Center Jul 2019

What's Happening: July 22, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: July 15, 2019, Maine Medical Center Jul 2019

What's Happening: July 15, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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A Provider-Driven Approach To Preventative Oral Care In Nursing Home Facilities, Molly Anderson, Brandon Mccrossin, Kary Franchetti, Ruth Hanselman, Suneela Nayak, Stephen Tyzik, Amy Sparks Jul 2019

A Provider-Driven Approach To Preventative Oral Care In Nursing Home Facilities, Molly Anderson, Brandon Mccrossin, Kary Franchetti, Ruth Hanselman, Suneela Nayak, Stephen Tyzik, Amy Sparks

Operations Transformation

Oral care is an essential part of preventative medicine as it minimizes risk for pneumonias and other infections. In nursing home settings, often oral health care is not routinely provided due to a number of issues. A health care system that either owns or contracts nursing home facilities initiated a performance improvement plan to address this patient care concern.

The first goal of this project was to reduce the variation in oral care between nursing home facilities within the system. The second goal was 100% of their patients will have one oral health care exam documented in EPIC once a …


What's Happening: July 8, 2019, Maine Medical Center Jul 2019

What's Happening: July 8, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: June 24, 2019, Maine Medical Center Jun 2019

What's Happening: June 24, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: June 17, 2019, Maine Medical Center Jun 2019

What's Happening: June 17, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: June 10, 2019, Maine Medical Center Jun 2019

What's Happening: June 10, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: June 3, 2019, Maine Medical Center Jun 2019

What's Happening: June 3, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: May 27, 2019, Maine Medical Center May 2019

What's Happening: May 27, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: May 20, 2019, Maine Medical Center May 2019

What's Happening: May 20, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: May 13, 2019, Maine Medical Center May 2019

What's Happening: May 13, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: May 6, 2019, Maine Medical Center May 2019

What's Happening: May 6, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: April 29, 2019, Maine Medical Center Apr 2019

What's Happening: April 29, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: April 22, 2019, Maine Medical Center Apr 2019

What's Happening: April 22, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: April 15, 2019, Maine Medical Center Apr 2019

What's Happening: April 15, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: April 8, 2019, Maine Medical Center Apr 2019

What's Happening: April 8, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: April 1, 2019, Maine Medical Center Apr 2019

What's Happening: April 1, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: March 25, 2019, Maine Medical Center Mar 2019

What's Happening: March 25, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: March 18, 2019, Maine Medical Center Mar 2019

What's Happening: March 18, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: March 11, 2019, Maine Medical Center Mar 2019

What's Happening: March 11, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: March 4, 2019, Maine Medical Center Mar 2019

What's Happening: March 4, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: February 25, 2019, Maine Medical Center Feb 2019

What's Happening: February 25, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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What's Happening: February 18, 2019, Maine Medical Center Feb 2019

What's Happening: February 18, 2019, Maine Medical Center

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