This special edition podcast of Navigating witHIIN is a brief holiday message that states how excited the Compass HIIN is for 2020 and gives an update on future Navigating witHIIN podcasts.

In this episode, we talk with South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organization’s (SDAHO’s) registered nurse and improvement advisor, Cindy Schuch, and director of quality integration, Kristen Bunt, on SDAHO’s Community Opioid Abuse Response Effort (COARE) program. Schuch and Bunt share the aims and progress in COARE by increasing collaboration, communication and identify applicable resources and gaps in prevention, treatment and recovery within the community.

In this episode we discuss the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPi) with Iowa Healthcare Collaborative’s director of physician services and leader of TCPi, Ellyn Cottingham. Cottingham explains the TCPi program, how it helps clinicians achieve large-scale healthcare transformation and details their progress over the past four years.

In this episode we talk infection prevention at Broadlawns Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa with their chief nursing officer, Susan Kirstein. Broadlawns has a dedicated staff of more than 1,200 employees with 80 physicians that work together to provide high quality healthcare that is coordinated, compassionate and cost-effective.

In part two of this series we will continue the infection prevention discussion with LeAnn Hillier, infection preventionist and Cathy Wright, guest services director at Mary Greely Medical Center.

In this series we will discuss infection prevention at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, Iowa with their infection preventionist, LeAnn Hillier and their guest services director, Cathy Wright. Stay tuned for part 2!

Today we discuss an exciting upcoming HAI webinar series with Sandy Atkinson, a clinical quality consultant for the Compass Hospital Improvement & Innovation Network (HIIN). She holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing and is a certified professional in healthcare quality. Atkinson has experience as a hospital quality and patient experience director, in medical-surgical, emergency room and surgical nursing and hospice and inpatient case management.

Today we discuss two adverse drug event HIIN measures with Dr. Matt Pitlick. As experts in medication delivery, pharmacists play an integral role in preventing and managing medication errors; however, ensuring safety in the health system is a team effort.

Today we discuss the role of a pharmacist in a quality care teams with the newest member of our IHC team, Dr. Matt Pitlick. As experts in medication delivery, pharmacists play an integral role in preventing and managing medication errors; however, ensuring safety in the health system is a team effort

Today we discuss how diabetes plays a factor in determining our readmission rates. We’ll talk about how to overcome these barriers and discuss steps hospitals have taken to battle this issue. To do this, we welcome our Diabetes Subject Matter Expert, Cari Seddon. She has 17 years of experience as a diabetes educator.

Supplemental links:

- www.ihconline.org – Under Tools and Resources, Population Health, SIM: you’ll find numerous SDOH resources, including a robust SDOH Toolkit

- https://www.diabeteseducator.org/news/aade-news/new-medicare-bill-to-provide-long-needed-overhaul-of-diabetes-treatment-services

- For more information on the Expanding Access to Diabetes Self-Management Training Act https://innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/ACO/

ACO general information at CMS, including case studies to share learnings