Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB)

Eastern Maine Medical Center placed "Blue Feet" along the corridors of their TCAB pilot unit to help patients know how far they are walking. Patients are often asked to walk a specific distance a specified number of times each day as part of their treatment plan. The "Blue Feet" help patients know exactly how far they have walked. This is an easy and inexpensive intervention developed by the staff on EMMC TCAB unit.

“The beauty of TCAB is that quality becomes practical in the hands of the bedside nurses who are given the tools to conduct small tests of change, then adapt, adopt, or abandon those tests until an innovation becomes a new way of doing things,” according to Judy Warmuth, WHA vice president, workforce.

Wisconsin’s TCAB initiative launched March 23-25, 2011 with more than 130 participants representing 18 medical-surgical units from 16 hospitals.  TCAB is a nurse-led hospital program that engages frontline staff to work together to identify, pilot, test and adopt...

The Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (OAHHS) has been selected to participate in the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) project, Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) initiative. AF4Q, the signature effort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to improve the quality of care in communities throughout the country, is a national partnership that brings together those who get, give, and pay for health care in the country. TCAB brings together 13 new hospital teams from across the state of Oregon. TCAB, a nurse-led hospital improvement initiative, engages front-line staff...