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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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more about Expert Training Sessions.
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