New Mexico Hospitals: Creating a Model of Collaboration and Commitment

Care at the Bedside (TCAB) initiative across New Mexico. In April 2012, HealthInsight New Mexico, New ... to establish similar partnerships in the future.  (Hospital Care, Transforming Care at the ... improve the effectiveness of the entire care team. Additionally, many of the TCAB hospitals were also ...

May 20,2013

National TCAB Holds Final Meeting

Teams' Presentations . (Hospital Care, Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB)) ... Wed, 2012-08-08 (All day) The AF4Q National TCAB teams convened July ... participants, the six AF4Q TCAB Regional Clinical Leaders, as well as AF4Q alliance representatives from 11 ...

Aug 08,2012

Spectrum Health System–Gerber Memorial Hospital TCAB Tackles Medication Errors

, Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB)) ... reduce medication errors and adverse drug events, thus increasing patient safety. The TCAB unit at ... Through the TCAB process, the team decided to redraw the “no interruption zone” based on these ...

Jul 13,2012

St. Mary’s Medical Center Strengthens Discharge Process

“invaluable gift of time.” (Hospital Care, Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB)) ... with its multidisciplinary discharge planning at the bedside. The TCAB unit aimed to strengthen team ... also that they had a role in their plan of care, without being intimidated by the number of staff at ...

Jul 13,2012

Lovelace Westside Hospital: Improving Satisfaction with Proactive Call Button Response

experience. (Hospital Care, Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB)) ... improve team communication, and promote patient safety. The TCAB unit at Lovelace Westside Hospital, ... every two hours at night. In an effort to assess a patient’s current condition, nurses go through the “3 ...

Jul 13,2012

Wisconsin TCAB: "Quality Becomes Practical"

Wisconsin.”   (Hospital Care, Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB)) ... Thu, 2011-09-01 (All day) “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 ...

Sep 01,2011

Reform, External Evaluation, Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB)) ... Every day, AF4Q communities are finding new ways of approaching old problems in our health care system. There is no one road we must take to reach our goal of improving health care quality. How much simpler ...

Nov 14,2012

Southern Maine Medical Center Improves Team Communication

(Hospital Care, Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB)) ... special care unit now holds morning huddles as a component of their “Team Steps” project. The TCAB team ... communicating critical information about patient care needs, once lasted approximately 22 minutes on the SMMC ...

Jul 16,2012

Medina Memorial Healthcare System Tackles Nurse Turnover

and recruitment.  (Hospital Care, Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB)) ... Fri, 2012-07-13 (All day) Since the implementation of TCAB at Medina ... leadership support are all factors driving the hospital’s success. The TCAB team at Medina conducted a ...

Jul 13,2012

Sinai-Grace Hospital Gets Hospital Discharges Right

, Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB)) ... Mon, 2012-07-16 (All day) Sinai-Grace Hospital TCAB Team focused on the ... at the hospital. Often hospitals must spend a great deal of time searching for belongings patients ...

Jul 16,2012