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Current Initiatives and Training Opportunities

VTE Prevention Collaborative

Your local quality improvement (QI) team can receive a year of mentoring (at no cost) from SHM Experts with VTE and QI expertise to design, evaluate and sustain a VTE prevention initiative. Mentors will work with each site leader to tackle site-specific issues using proven QI techniques. Mentoring includes eight scheduled telephone calls offered over a 12 month period, ad hoc e-mails, and instruction organized around the VTE QI Implementation Guide, SHM's step-by-step guide for developing a VTE prevention program. (The Implementation Guide can also serve as a self-study guide and is available online from the VTE Resource Room.)
Read more about the VTE Prevention Collaborative.


QI Resource Rooms

SHM's Resources Rooms provide guidance on implementing specific interventions to prevent VTE's, improve discharge planning, prevent stroke, and other key patient safety areas. Each resource room contains a Quality Improvement Implementation Guide, educational slides sets, Teaching Pearls, Ask the Expert discussion boards, key literature and other helpful resources. Access the landing page for the  Quality Improvement Resource Rooms Quality Improvement Resource Rooms to see the full scope of offerings.
Go to the Quality Improvement Resource Rooms.


Care Transitions

SHM, with the support of the John A. Hartford Foundation and in collaboration with a coalition of national experts is developing a toolkit to improve care transitions for older adults at the time of hospital discharge. A range of technical support programs will be available beginning spring 2008 to facilitate adoption of the toolkit. Technical support and training programs will include a redesigned Care Transitions for Older Adults Resource Room and QI implementation guide, day long Quality Pre-Course; year-long mentoring program and on-site consultation program.
Read more about Care Transitions.


Quality Pre-Course

The quality pre-course enables hospitalists and their local QI teams to become leaders of breakthrough levels of quality and safety, through the effective implementation of evidence-based, high reliability interventions. Participants will learn techniques for designing, implementing, and evaluating quality improvement projects.  The morning sessions provides an overview of general principles in quality improvement.  Afternoon break-out sessions focus on how to implement specific interventions for VTE prevention, discharge planning or glycemic control within the constraints of local sites. 
Read more about the Quality Pre-Course.


Quality Track

SHM’s 2008 Annual Meeting Quality Track will include the following subjects: Quality and Leadership; information on the VTE Prevention Collaborative; Care Transitions; Lean Methods and Quality Improvement through Hospital Based Care. Subjects were chosen to address a variety of current QI initiatives.
Read more about the Quality Track.


Expert Training Sessions

SHM will provide three training sessions at regional chapter or other designated meetings across the country. The overall goal of the meetings is to educate hospitalists on the implementation of best practices as they relate to glycemic control, VTE prevention, and transitions of care.
Read more about Expert Training Sessions.

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