Today, it’s not enough to just pick a few quality initiatives to work on each year and hope for the best. Complex systems like hospitals need a comprehensive approach: an interlinked series of people, programs, and analytics to consistently improve and sustain quality. This episode of Modern Practice covers comprehensive and sustained quality transformation.
Guest speakers:Rick May, MDSenior Principal, Clinical Quality ImprovementVizientOrthopedic Surgeon
Tod Baker, BSPrincipal, Clinical Quality ImprovementV...
Today, it’s not enough to just pick a few quality initiatives to work on each year and hope for the best. Complex systems like hospitals need a comprehensive approach: an interlinked series of people, programs, and analytics to consistently improve and sustain quality. This episode of Modern Practice covers comprehensive and sustained quality transformation.
Guest speakers:
Rick May, MD
Senior Principal, Clinical Quality Improvement
Vizient
Orthopedic Surgeon
Tod Baker, BS
Principal, Clinical Quality Improvement
Vizient
Moderator:
Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM
Principal, Clinical Operations and Quality
Vizient
Show Notes:
[01:30] Comprehensive clinical quality transformation program
[03:03] When initiatives run out of steam
[04:25] Quality is the great impactor, the holy grail, the fixer and differentiator
[05:44] Readmissions in a new light
[07:00] Why there is no sustainability
[08:36] Mistaken emphasis on lagging instead of leading metrics
Links | Resources:
To contact Modern Practice: modernpracticepodcast@vizientinc.com
Dr. May’s contact email: rick.may@vizientinc.com
Tod Baker’s contact email: tod.baker@vizientinc.com
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