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Dr. Carol Solie and Jennifer Gallagher from the Wyoming Medical Center knew they needed better staff training for maternal mortality by post-partum hemorrhage and hypertension. They decided on the obstetrical training simulation process and the results were astounding. They join us on this program to discuss their decision, including the challenges and benefits.

Guests:

Jennifer Gallagher

Clinical Educator for Obstetrics

Wyoming Medical Center 

Dr. Carol Solie

Vice President of Quality and Medical Safety

Wyoming Medical Center 

Resources:

Watch the Vizient Reducing Maternal Mortality collaborative webcast for additional details.

For more information, email [email protected]

Show Notes:

[00:00 – 02:40]  Recognize the need for better training

[02:41 – 03:39]  Bedside simulation program with hands on training

[03:40 – 04:15]  Doctor education

[04:16 – 05:25]  Simulation pre-briefing scenarios and objectives

[05:26 – 06:05]  Identifying roles and scripting

[06:06 – 06:59]  Team building and positive experiences

[07:00 – 09:50]  Simulation challenges and benefits

[09:51 – 11:29]  Setting up for success

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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency medicine departments faced a myriad of challenges. In the first of a three-part series, Dr. Thomas Spiegel from the University of Chicago and Dr Martin Lucenti from Vizient summarize factors shaping emergency medicine today and offer their thoughts on what will be different in the future.  Their broad-ranging discussion covers everything from emergency room current challenges, to implementing operational efficiency, operations management and functioning as a diagnostic center and patient hub for an organization.

Guests:

Thomas Spiegel, MD, MS, BA, ED

Medical Director

University of Chicago Medicine

Martin Lucenti, MD, PhD

SVP & CMO, Solution Architecture

Vizient

For more information, email [email protected]

Show Notes:

[00:00 – 03:15]  Current state of Emergency Medicine

[03:29 – 06:14]  Emergency Room efficiency model and its effect on overcrowding and finances

[06:31 – 07:27]  Challenges with behavioral health patient needs

[07:27 - 08:00]  Challenges with geriatric population

[08:00 - 08:31]  Challenges with workforce issues

[08:49 - 10:54]  What lies ahead: flattening of low acuity patient and growth in higher acuity patients

[10:55 – 14:13]  Operational efficiency, adopting operations management, system reliability

[14:21 - 16:41]  Emergency department functioning as a diagnostic center and patient hub

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Health care organizations across the country are implementing opioid stewardship programs to address the opioid crisis. BJC HealthCare joined the Vizient performance improvement collaborative hoping to discover best practices to improve the mortality rates for their system. The collaborative suggests participants inventory your current efforts as a first step in the process. And right at square one, BJC uncovered one of its hospitals had a unique program that was saving—and transforming—patients’ lives.

Guests:

Amanda Hays, PharmD, MHA, BCPS, CPHQ, System Pharmacy and Outcomes Manager. Center for Clinical Excellence – BJC HealthCare

Jordan Shapiro, Business Process Consultant, Healthcare Informatics, Center for Clinical Excellence – BJC HealthCare

Resources:

Watch the Vizient Opioid Stewardship Program collaborative webcast for additional details.

For more information, email [email protected]

Show Notes:

[00:00 – 01:26] BJC singles out the opioid problem as a focus area and describes the impact on the community

[01:26 – 02:14]  A potential solution is uncovered within their system: EPICC –engaging patients in care coordination

[02:14 – 03:10] The ED provides a key opportunity for connecting patients in need

[03:10 – 04:09] Finding the secret sauce to the opioid addiction recovery efforts

[04:09 – 05:14]  Challenges to efforts

[05:14 – 06:25] Anticipating and overcoming addiction stigma

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Lack of access to care is a critical issue facing too many patients and providers.  More and more consumers, clinicians and health care organizations are investing in virtual health as a solution. Virtual health—or telehealth—may seem like it’s a result of technology advances over the last decade.  But Dr. Elizabeth Krupinski of Emory University explains telemedicine history goes back 40+ years. In this episode, she tells us what’s behind virtual health’s slow build and why it is ready to boom.

Guest:

Elizabeth Krupinski, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Emory University Departments of Radiology and Imaging Sciences and Co-Director of  Director of the Southwest Telehealth Resource Center in Arizona

Resources:

Watch the Vizient Improving Care Access through Virtual Health Care Design collaborative webcast for additional details.

For more information, email [email protected]

Show Notes:

[00:00 - 01:33]  Introduction and telemedicine background

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At Temple University Health System, leaders Dwight McBee and Mark Meyers explore how to reverse burnout and foster joy on the job. They walk through practical strategies like engaging staff, empowering leaders, using feedback, and learning from unintended outcomes. The episode highlights a simple yet powerful focus—that involving your people might be one of the best paths toward making work more joyful.

Dwight McBee, CPXP, MBA, BSN

Chief Experience Officer

Temple University Health System

Mark Meyers, DNP, MBA, RN, NEA-BC

Director of Performance Improvement and Healthcare Informatics

Temple University Health System

Resources:

Watch the Vizient Joy in the Workplace collaborative webcast for additional details.

For more information, email [email protected]

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