Kansas City, MO
Truman Medical Center-Hospital Hill in Kansas City, MO, is an urban non-profit hospital with an ED flow of 62,000 patients. Like many EDs, Truman frequently tells its patients who received sutures to return five to seven days later to have them removed. These patients often had to wait long periods of time for this simple procedure. The facility aimed to improve its turnaround times for these patients by creating more efficiency in their suture removal protocol. The goal was to reduce door to discharge to less than 20 minutes in more than 90 percent of its wound and suture removal...
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Health care is full of disparities. Federal data consistently show that minorities, women, and other groups consistently receive poorer quality care. However, the data does not indicate why this is. At Truman Medical Centers in Kansas City, officials are using AF4Q-enabled data to track where exactly disparities lie within their institutions and formulate strategies for reducing these inequities of care.
The Kansas City, Mo Alliance expanded their consumer engagement efforts by hosting events designed to bring both consumers and providers to the table. They connected with local churches; bringing 3000 consumers to Diabetes education events. Additionally, more than 1200 individual physicians receive reports from the alliance, and more than 60% find reports generated by AF4Q useful to their practice.
The Greater Kansas City’s area Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) is led by the Kansas City Quality Improvement Consortium (KCQIC). Established in 2000 by the UAW-Ford Community Health Care Initiative and local health care stakeholders, KCQIC brings together an unprecedented commitment of resources and expertise among physicians, health plans, medical societies, medical schools, quality improvement organizations and community organizations.
The KCQIC team creates a forum for health practitioners to exchange ideas about proven practices for improving patient outcomes in the community. KCQIC promotes quality health care through collaboration and strategic leadership, education and training dissemination of information and tools.
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Visit the Public Reporting Website Here.