Caring Wisely FY 2025 Project Contest

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Expanding the Accelerated Discharge Program: An Interprofessional Effort to Use Early Identification and Coordination of Next Day Discharges to Improve Rate of On-Time Discharges and Reduce Length of Stay

Submitted by David Arboleda on February 28, 2025 - 3:22pm
Proposal Status: 
Open

The Accelerated Discharge Program team systemically collected data on common discharge barriers, developed expertise in addressing common discharge issues and discharge efficiencies, improved identification of patients likely to discharge and assisted with discharge tasks. Length of stay improved to 7.4 days in the intervention group. Through the Caring Wisely program, our interprofessional team seeks to develop a platform to communicate discharge barriers with other disciplines at the unit and the health system level through more Informatics and Apex build support. We ultimately aim to further increase the number of on-time discharges, improve estimated day of discharge (“EDD”) accuracy, reduce LOS, and support UCSF’s global capacity optimization efforts.

Reducing Hospital-Acquired Infections Through Creation of HAI Diagnostic Excellence at UCSF

Submitted by Amy Larsen on February 28, 2025 - 3:11pm
Proposal Status: 
Open

PROPOSAL TITLE: Reducing Hospital-Acquired Infections Through Creation of HAI Diagnostic Excellence at UCSF

PROJECT LEAD(S): Cass Sandoval, Adult Critical Care CNS; Amy Larsen, Adult Critical Care CNS; Lindsay Bolt, Adult Medical CNS

EXECUTIVE SPONSOR(S): 

Reducing Inpatient Admissions for Vasa Previa

Submitted by Chiara Corbetta-Rastelli on February 28, 2025 - 3:05pm
Proposal Status: 
Open

PROJECT LEAD(S):

-Chiara Corbetta-Rastelli, MD

-Kate Swanson, MD

EXECUTIVE SPONSOR(S):

-Juan Gonzalez, MD, MS, PhD, Division Chief, UCSF Maternal Fetal Medicine

-Melissa Rosenstein, MD, Medical Director for Quality and Patient Safety for UCSF OB

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HEAD-GAIN: Improving Access, Reducing Overutilization

Submitted by Pierre Martin on February 28, 2025 - 2:40pm Last revised by Pierre Martin on February 28, 2025 - 4:07pm.
Proposal Status: 
Open

PROPOSAL TITLE: Headache Evaluation and Diagnosis - with Generative Artificial INtelligence (HEAD-GAIN): Improving Access, Reducing Overutilization

PROJECT LEAD(S):

-               Pierre Martin, MD, MEd

-               Andrew Breithaupt, MD

EXECUTIVE SPONSOR(S): 

-               Maggie Waung, MD, PhD

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Enhancing Neonatal Care Through Lactation Support and Oral Milk Drops

Submitted by Rebecca Carter on February 28, 2025 - 1:51pm Last revised by Rebecca Carter on February 28, 2025 - 1:52pm.
Proposal Status: 
Open

PROJECT LEADS: Rebecca Carter, MD, Vidya Pai, MD, Clare Pearson, RN, CNL

EXECUTIVE SPONSORS: James Anderson, MD, Director of Neonatology, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, Leslie Lusk, MD, Medical Director, ECMO Co-Medical Director, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland 

Targeting Plasma Metagenomic Sequencing to Improve Patient Care and Reduce Waste

Submitted by Natasha Spottiswoode on February 27, 2025 - 11:04am Last revised by Natasha Spottiswoode on February 27, 2025 - 11:35am.
Proposal Status: 
Open

Plasma metagenomic sequencing (pmNGS) is an infectious disease diagnostic tool that detects microbial DNA from patient plasma1. Due to its unbiased nature, pmNGS can identify bacteria, fungi, parasites and DNA viruses, including those clinicians may have not considered in their differential diagnosis or that are difficult to identify via standard testing2. The diagnostic power of pmNGS can circumvent invasive and expensive diagnostic procedures3 and, potentially, shorten patient stays.

Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI) Reduction through Diagnostic Stewardship

Submitted by Cass Sandoval on March 1, 2024 - 4:58pm Last revised by Brian Holt on March 8, 2024 - 2:55pm.
Proposal Status: 
Not Selected for This Round

PROPOSAL TITLE: Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI) Reduction through Diagnostic Stewardship

PROJECT LEAD(S):  HAI Committee Leads (PCD/CNS, MD, HEIP)

EXECUTIVE SPONSOR(S):

  • Art Dominguez, Chief Nursing Officer, Adult Services
  • Nerys Benfield, Interim Chief Medical Officer, Adult Services

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Advancing Personalized Cancer Patient Education in the Digital Age

Submitted by Shu Yi Chen on March 1, 2024 - 2:23pm Last revised by Shu Yi Chen on March 27, 2024 - 11:50am.
Proposal Status: 
Selected for 2nd Round

PROJECT LEAD(S): Jaqueline Simpsons RN MSN

                                  Mackenzie Clark PharmD co-lead

                                  Sherry Chen Rph  co-lead

EXECUTIVE SPONSOR(S): Dr.Karen Chee MD Medical Director of Hematology San Mateo

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