SHM QI Training

Professional Development

Mentoring Program

SHM has several Professional Development programs designed to support Hospitalists and their teams improve transitions out of the hospital.

The mentoring program offers sites the opportunity to receive personalized guidance from a QI expert over the course of year Participating sites attend a day long training session followed by monthly calls with their mentor designed to support their progress implementing the BOOST intervention.

The Project BOOST Mentoring Program

• Sites have been accepted for the Project BOOST Mentoring Program-a year of mentoring and coaching from national experts to redesign their discharge process and improve patient safety and outcomes. Courtesy of the John A. Hartford Foundation and the Society of Hospital Medicine, there is no fee for site participation in this incredible opportunity.
• Via the Project BOOST Mentoring Program, selected sites will receive:
• Participation in a two day training conference
• The Project BOOST Toolkit
• A year of mentoring provided via teleconferencing and e-mails to tailor the Project BOOST toolkit to the needs of their institutions, implement it, and evaluate its impact. 
• Evaluation tools including run charts
• Project management tools
• Access to networking opportunities to share successes and challenges with peer sites
• Start date for sites: March 2009. Check back to read their progress and status of their improvement efforts.

PARTICIPATING SITES
Any site can access the BOOST toolkit via the resource room free of charge at www.hospitalmedicine.org/BOOST. Over 265 sites have downloaded the complete Implementation Guide which serves as a portable version of the resource room and will walk you through the steps improve the discharge process. There are two cohorts participating in the Project BOOST Mentoring Program.

Cohort one, listed below started in September 2008.
Six hospitals were selected to participate in Project BOOST’s pilot mentoring program:

• Piedmont Hospital – Atlanta, Georgia
• Queens Medical Center – Honolulu, Hawaii
• University of New Mexico Health Science Center School of Medicine – Albuquerque, NM
• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, PA
• Southwestern Vermont Medical Center – Bennington, VT
• ThedaCare: Appleton Medical Center - Appleton, WI; & ThedaClark Medical Center – Neenah, WI

Cohort two, listed below started in March 2009.
Twenty four hospitals were selected to participate in Project BOOST’s mentoring program:

• Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center – Phoenix, AZ
• Kaiser Permanente Hospital West  Los Angeles – Los Angeles, CA
• California Pacific Medical Center – San Francisco, CA
• University of California, San Francisco – San Francisco, CA
• Greenwich Hospital – Greenwich, CT
• Morton Plant Hospital – Clearwater, FL
• Emory Crawford Long Hospital – Atlanta, GA
• Emory University Hospital – Atlanta, GA
• Rush University Medical Center – Chicago, IL
• University of Kansas Hospital – Kansas City, KS
• UMass – Marlborough Hospital – Marlborough, MA
• University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, MI
• SSM St. Mary’s Health Center, St. Louis, MO
• Billings Clinic – Billings, MT
• Mission Hospital – Asheville, NC
• Lakes Region General Hospital – Laconia, NH
• Cooper Health – Camden, NJ
• Huntington Hospital – Huntington, NY
• Albert Einstein Healthcare Network – Philadelphia, PA
• Medical University of South Carolina – Charleston, SC
• Sanford USD Medical Center – Sioux Falls, SD
• Baptist Hospital – Nashville, TN
• Chesapeake Hospitalists, P.C. – Chesapeake, VA
• Aurora Medical Center, Summit, WI – Milwaukee, WI

For more information on Project BOOST, please contact lvalentino@hospitalmedicine.org (267-702-2672).

Quality Improvement Skills Course

Course Overview:
The 2009 Quality Pre-Course held at Hospital Medicine 2009 SHM’s Annual Meeting was re-designed to expose hospitalists of all experience levels to effective quality improvement projects. In an interactive format, multiple successful QI projects were profiled by the hospitalists who have led them. Participants had a chance to see key QI principles reappear in each project, while also gaining exposure to alternative strategies. The participant choose from one of three sessions: VTE, Glycemic Control, or Care Transitions.

Check back for 2010 Quality Precourse information

Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Describe how a hospitalist can communicate a vision to lead improvement in hospital care
• Describe the power of standardization, especially when coupled with high reliability strategies
• Describe features of a useful data system and how an effective multidisciplinary team can achieve specific performance goals