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Addiction Care Team (ACT) in an Inpatient Setting @ San Francisco General Hospital

In September 2017, San Francisco General Hospital launched an Addiction Care Team (ACT) program which consisted of an interprofessional inpatient addiction care team embedded in…

Innovators

  • Marlene Martin, MD

Electronic Medical Record–Based Referrals for Food-Insecure Patients @ Hennepin County Medical Center

From January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2017, Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) integrated a referral system into its electronic medical record to connect food…

Innovators

  • Kurt Hager, MS

Improving Smoking Cessation via Decision Aid

This program at an urban safety net primary care clinic utilized motivational interviewing and a visual, easy-to-understand decision-making aid to promote smoking cessation.

Innovators

  • Sumit D. Agarwal, MD
  • Matthew Kerwin, MD
  • Jacob Meindertsma, MD
  • Andrew Wolf, MD

Improving Chronic Opioid Management Safety via Care Pathways @ Valley Medical Center

This program at an urban community hospital utilized implementation of evidence-based opioid therapy best practices including EHR prompts and prescription drug monitoring database integration to…

Innovators

  • Sahana Ingale, MBBS, MHPA
  • Kim Herner, MD
  • Travis Dalton, ARNP
  • Jean Borth, RN, CPHQ
  • Sunny Chacko

Individualized Care Delivery in Primary Care via Integrated Practice Units (IPUs) @ Cambridge Health Alliance Union Square Family Health Center

This intervention sought to adopt integrated practice units (IPUs) into a primary care practice using ‘pod’-based patient care with a multidisciplinary team, disease-oriented patient registries,…

Innovators

  • Nina Jain, MD, MBA, MSc
  • Toyin Okanlawon, MD, MPH
  • Kirsten Meisinger, MD, MHCDS
  • Thomas Feeley, MD

Reduction of Opioid Misuse in Primary Care via the Transforming Opioid Prescribing in Primary Care (TOPCARE) Program @ Boston Medical Center

Nurses provide electronic and in-person monitoring of high-risk primary care patients on long-term opioid prescriptions to ensure appropriate use and efficacy of medication.

Innovators

  • Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH
  • Christopher Shanahan, MD, MPH
  • Ronald Goldstein, MD

Nurse Practitioner-Physician Primary Care Teams via “NP Anchor” @ Boston Medical Center

NP-MD primary care teams were created to address clinician burnout and increase patient access in an urban safety-net hospital.

Innovators

  • Joanna D’Afflitti, MD, MPH
  • Melissa Jacobs, NP-C, MSN

eConsults via RubiconMD to support Medicaid Primary Care Providers @ the Community Health Center Network (CHCN)

CHCN engaged RubiconMD to implement their eConsult platform and eConsult specialist network for their primary care providers in an effort to enable more efficient and…

Opioid Management via Group Visits @ Boston Medical Center

Group visits combining behavioral health therapy and pharmacologic support for patients with substance/opioid use disorder with an emphasis on community support and accountability.

Innovators

  • Shari Zakim-Yacouby LICSW
  • Tu-Mai Tran MD
  • Marielle Baldwin MD MPH
  • Huong Tran MD
  • Beth Marx MSW, LICSW
  • Krystyna Roszczenko, Team Coordinator

Scribes @ Hennepin County Medical Center

Creating a medical scribe program at an academic public hospital with dedicated scribes for each specialty area.

Innovators

  • Marc Martel MD