Driving ED Performance
ED Breakthrough Series
Depending on funding availability 30 to 50 ED Performance
Teams comprised of an administrator, ED Physician Leader and
ED Nursing Leader will be selected for continuous training
over a 12-month period. ED Performance teams will be carefully
selected on the basis of need, organizational readiness for
change, commitment by hospital leadership to support the teams,
and impact on their communities.
Using the output from the Idealized Design initiative above,
mentored by a world class faculty team, and supported by a
robust knowledge management system a collaborating network
of ED Performance Teams will become a practicing community
of high performance methods. Four 2-day group learning sessions
will be undertaken and optimized by extensive pre-work and
interval progress reporting throughout the year. ED Performance
Teams shall select 3 to 4 performance areas, will set measurable
goals, and track gains and chart gains held. The teams will
compete for achievement awards such as the Pete
Conrad Performance Excellence Award that entitles
the winner to a major grant for the next year.
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ED Idealized Design Program
A team of 10 to 12 world class experts will work with 5 to
6 ED teams each made up an administrator, ED physician leader,
and ED nursing leader. Over a 6 month period a number of rapid
cycle performance improvement methods will be defined including
key concepts, core integrated processes, and change concepts.
Innovative products, services, and technologies will be identified
as "enabling solutions" to solve performance redesign requirements.
The same faculty and methods used by a recent and highly successful
medication management idealized design initiative will be
used as a template to optimize success. Faculty members and
participants include clinicians and administrators from Mayo
Health System, the Cleveland Clinic, and Partners/Harvard
Affiliated hospitals as well as leading community based health
systems. The output of the Idealized Design effort will become
the core Curriculum for the ED Breakthrough Series described
below.
Handling of Disasters in EDs
There are countless factors that are paramount in the handling
of disasters in EDs. Now is the time, more than ever, for
hospitals to install disaster readiness systems, as recent
history has shown us that the unthinkable can reoccur. See
ED Disaster
Preparedness for further details on this subject.
Consumer/Patient-Centered Module
A consumer-based module will be co-developed with the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality. Funding will help establish
executive team meetings and establish the design for an ED
consumer research project. The focus will be to develop the
performance considerations for developing the concepts, tools,
and resources to enhance the role of consumers in reducing
adverse events and optimizing their care. Consumers will actually
serve as faculty to teach our ED teams.
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