Improving Clinical Outcomes
Redesigning Clinical Care
For years, Do Tank has been working with state hospital associations and their member hospitals to move the metrics that matter within states. Our team has spearheaded work on a wide breadth of challenges. This work includes readmissions, C. diff, daily safety huddles, nurse staffing, workforce, and equity. If your team needs to improve a clinical outcome, spread or translate a best practice, or frame clinical quality improvement approaches, we are here to help.
The Objective
Do Tank Health has worked with several hospitals and community-based organizations to create Implementation Playbooks. These playbooks use high-impact innovations, best practices, and quality improvement innovations. You can see some of these playbooks below. Read them to understand how we work with teams to enhance clinical outcomes; we hope your organization is next.
The Process
DoTank has embarked on an ambitious initiative – galvanizing the spread of high-impact, quality improvement innovations nationwide. Our implementation playbooks focus on innovations that are already showing promise. The innovations we identify to be translated into playbooks could have a greater impact on patient outcomes if they were in place at more hospitals.
The Playbooks
We can compete on results, but we don’t compete on best practices in Quality and Patient Safety. Let’s come together to accelerate the spread of innovations that lead to reductions in harm and cost savings.
Our playbooks read more like a travel brochure than a 60-page change package, but they’re just as detailed. At DoTank, we know how to distill and scale processes while telling real stories. It is critical to make playbooks transferable from the front line to the C-Suite. It’s necessary to pack playbooks with the assets and commentary needed to spread best practices.
We outline the key steps in the process and integrate voices from both the Mentor and Spread sites. We also embed the key resources needed to translate the process from one site to the next.
Playbooks culminate in a Results & Impact section highlighting cost savings, harms prevented, and qualitative statements. This appears as the Mentor and Spread sites speaking to the value of the improvement process to their organization.
What do People think?
Dr. Gurpreet Mander,
CMO, St. John’s Hospital
The reduction in Clostridium difficile at HSHS St. John’s Hospital in 2017 of nearly 80% has been a huge achievement thanks to all of the care providers that work closely and collaboratively with Pharmacy, Nursing and Infection Prevention. The interventions that have been implemented over the past year have been proven effective and will continue.
Dawn Moeller,
Clinical Manager for Emergency and Trauma Services
This program really works and is powerful! Since implementing the program, our organization has learned many lessons. The ICP program is intuitive and practical. It makes sense to the health care team members because it is relatively easy to implement and, even more importantly, it is easy to sustain.
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