Pulling Back the Curtain on Primary Care

Patient Partners and have helped AF4Q SCPA develop training materials. They even lead phone calls and ... with providers to provide feedback and strive to improve quality.   Patient Partners is an ... quality improvement leadership team (QILT). The concept for Patient Partners originated with the Aligning ...

May 07,2014

Applying a Team Approach to Patient Discharge

methodology the hospital is using for discharge planning. Developed and led by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, TCAB seeks to engage patients further and elevate ... Forces for Quality initiative, administrative leadership, physicians, and most importantly, nurses—who ...

Dec 13,2012

Shamelessly Stealing Great Ideas

collaborative.   TCAB’s primary focus is to engage nurses and other frontline staff to develop and ... the model, which was developed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare ... is only as far away as a store-bought shower caddy and a bit of MacGyver ingenuity. That’s how an ...

Dec 19,2012

Because Every Patient Counts

measures, went beyond the one-page measure sheets. The staff went back to the drawing board and developed a ... education, and not just for nurses. At every leadership meeting, a quality item is included on the agenda, ... and how important documentation is to the hospital meeting its performance targets. To educate and ...

Dec 19,2012