Primary
Initiatives
Venture Development
Strategies
- Venture Study and Complete Business Plan (for funding)
- Fund Venture
- Build Management Teams
- Create Infrastructure and Define Business Processes
- Establish perpetual funding
Tactics
- Situational Analysis: Emergency Department (ED) Market
Analysis (unmet need) Core Competency and channels assessment
- Recruitment Champions and Operations Team
- Establish an incentive program to attract talent and Performance
Excellence Transfer Enterprise (PETE) Centers
- Develop Full Blown Operations Plan
- Raise $5 million for the first year of operations
- Build perpetual funding - grant platform for ED services
of $3.5 million per year
Deliverables
A highly talented team will fund and drive a simple robust
program to equip small community hospitals to deliver high
impact ED performance. See Frequently
Asked Questions for further details on this subject.

Community ED Team Program
Strategies
- Develop of an Interactive Network that will train 30 to
50 teams per year
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
Partnered Idealized Design Program
- Community ED Performance Measure Development
- Assessment Tools and Methods Development
Tactics
- Develop an IHI ED Idealized Design Project with integrated
process model and EBM approach
- Launch an IHI ED Breakthrough Series will be launched
- Define Clinical, operational, and financial performance
measures for Community EDs that will address the specific
needs of children
- Create an economic model to defeat barriers for innovation
transfer in leadership, re-enginerring and technology adoption
- Develop a consumer/patient-centered module
Deliverables
Ongoing idealized design and breakthrough programs that drive
measurable performance improvement in community EDs.

PETE Centers
Strategies
- The top 3 to 5 ED teams will be selected for a Pete Conrad
Performance Excellence Award. They will receive a $50,000
grant for the following year.
- Establish Performance Evidence with leading teams
- Pete Conrad Performance Impact Center
- Re-PETE Recurrence Training to Hold Gains
- Site Training
Tactics
- Determination of Critical COE Selection Criteria
- PETE Center
- Incubate Performance Solutions at each PETE Center
that generates evidence + trains 3 centers per year
- Capitalize on opportunities to deliver care to Underserved
populations through Return to Community Programs
Deliverables
Support and showcase community ED programs to generate replicable
solutions + train other centers in market segments to be targeted.

Knowledge Management
Strategies
- Knowledge Management System
- Example: EBM Repository, etc.
- Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Nursing
Education (CNE) programs
- Measures and Navigation development
Tactics
- Design, develop, and construct a robust knowledge management
(KM) system
- Create an “insiders” performance based value proposition
for each stakeholder: Hospital Governance. Senior Management,
Referring physicians, and Clinical and ED Leaders
- Create new concepts, tools, and resources. (example: ED
Trigger tool to identify adverse event reduction process
improvement targets)
- Train and arm teams with high impact KM plan
Deliverables
A world class “performance focused” knowledge management
hub will serve the global community with concepts, tools,
and resources to drive best ED practices.

Advisory Platform Development
Strategies
- Create Advisory Teams for ED Performance
- Combine world-class talent and representatives from professional
and business societies and players
- National Meetings
Tactics
- Assemble world class clinical academics for community
ED advisory platform
- Recruit all key societies and organizations in critical
care and ED. Include Suppliers, Providers, and Purchasers.
Include telemedicine and innovation transfer domains.
- Assemble IHI and performance experts for platform including
administrators, caregivers and COE players
Deliverables
An advisory platform addressing ED performance will be established
to assure continuous world class value of our offering.
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