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Improving Antibiotic Stewardship via Nurse Phone Triage @ Stanford Health Care

A multidisciplinary team at Stanford Health Care created a nurse telephone triage protocol to improve guideline-concordant prescription of appropriate antibiotics for uncomplicated cystitis to help…

Innovators

  • Lori Guelman, FNP
  • Kelly Sanderson, FNP
  • Marcie Levine, MD
  • Mark Ramirez

Team-Based Care @ Bellin Health

The care team at Bellin Health Center holds weekly interdisciplinary meetings for discussion of high-risk patients in order to alleviate health worker burnout and to…

Innovators

  • James Jerzak, MD
  • Kathy Kerscher

Improving Transition Care via EHR Hospital Use Data @ Northwestern Medicine Group Transitional Care Clinic

The Northwestern Medicine Group Transitional Care clinic (NMG-TC) seeks to reduce preventable re-hospitalization by implementing a model of intensive case management and integrated behavioral/medical healthcare…

Innovators

  • Joe Feinglass PhD
  • Celeste A. Mallama PhD MPH
  • Angela Rogers MPH, APN-CNP
  • Caroline Teter PA
  • Courtney Hurt LCSW
  • Christine Schaeffer MD

Improving Primary Care Mental Health Services via Psychiatric eConsults @ Allina Health

Allina Health implemented an EHR-integrated psychiatric eConsult service in an effort to provide support for primary care providers (PCPs) in treating patients with mental illness.

Innovators

  • Ezra Golberstein, PhD
  • Sarah Kolvenbach MHA/MBA
  • Benjamin Druss MD MPH
  • Paul Goering MD
  • Hilary Carruthers MHA/MBA

Improving Women’s Health with Virtual Consultation via Specialty Care Access Network-Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (SCAN-ECHO) @ VHA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

The VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System adapted SCAN-ECHO to provide primary care providers (PCPs) with Women’s Health (WH) education and virtual consultations in an…

Innovators

  • Donna L. Washington MD, MPH
  • Mark Canning, BA
  • Herschel Knapp PhD, MSSW
  • Lisa Altman MD
  • Joann O. Saavedra MSN, RN, NP-C
  • Laure Veet MD
  • Jessica L. Zuchowski PhD, MPH
  • Kristina M. Cordasco MD, MPH, MSHS
  • Alison B. Hamilton PhD, MPH
  • Susan Kirsh MD, MPH

Preventing Readmission via Discharge Readiness Assessments @ Magnet Hospitals

33 magnet-designated hospitals integrated the use of structured nurse assessments of patient readiness for discharge into medical surgical unit discharge practices in an effort to…

Innovators

  • James Bang, PhD
  • Danielle Siclovan, MSN, RN
  • Sarah Bahr, MSN, RN
  • Morris Hamilton, PhD
  • Susan Nuccio, MSN, RN
  • Ronda G. Hughes, PhD, RN
  • Olga Yakusheva, PhD
  • Kathleen L. Bobay, PhD, RN, NEA-BC
  • Linda Costa, PhD, RN, NEA-BC
  • Marianne E. Weiss, DNSc, RN

Increasing Rates of School Hearing Screening via Telemedicine @ Rural Public Health System in Alaska

This project aimed to improve timely identification and treatment of childhood hearing loss by implementing a mobile health (mHealth) hearing screen followed by expedited telemedicine…

Innovators

  • Philip Hofstetter
  • Joseph J Gallo, MD, MPH
  • Alain Labrique, MHS, PhD
  • Nae-Yuh Wang, MS, PhD
  • Samantha Kleindienst Robler, AuD, PhD
  • Susan D Emmett, MD, MPH

Integrating Behavioral Health via Behavioral Health Consultant Roles @ Jefferson Health

Jefferson Health implemented a system-wide integrated behavioral health (IBH) program that introduces behavioral health consultants (BHCs) into practices across Jefferson Health in an effort to…

Innovators

  • Christine Arenson, MD
  • Amy Cunningham, PhD, MPH
  • Johnny Stoeckle, MD

Enhanced Hepatitis C Virus Cure Rates via the ProvenCare Model @ Geisinger Health System

This program aimed to improve hepatitis C virus cure rates among patients in central Pennsylvania through close follow-up by a multidisciplinary team composed of physicians,…

Innovators

  • Thomas H. Lee, MD, MSc
  • Sara Gaines, PharmD, BCPS
  • Sandeep Khurana, MBBS

Increasing Engagement with Preventive Care via myHealthFinder @ CVS Minute Clinics

CVS health sought improve preventive service uptake by consumers of CVS MinuteClinic by implementing the myHealthFinder digital interactive tool.

Innovators

  • John Barron
  • Andrew Sussman, M.D
  • William Shrank, M.D
  • Linda Harris, PhD
  • Jennifer Polinski, PhD, MPH