Caring Wisely FY 2025 Project Contest

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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 Prashant Patel on March 2, 2024 - 8:49am Last revised by Brian Holt on March 8, 2024 - 2:55pm.
Primary Author: Monisha Bhatia
Proposal Status: 
Not Selected for This Round

PROJECT LEAD(S):

  • Monisha Bhatia, MD – Assistant Professor, Division of Hospital Medicine
  • Prashant Patel, DO – Assistant Professor, Division of Hospital Medicine

EXECUTIVE SPONSOR(S):

  • Bradley Monash, MD – Vice Chief of Clinical Affairs, Hospital Medicine

 

ABSTRACT:

Enhancing Equity and Value with ED-initiated Palliative Care Consults

Submitted by Susan Lambe on March 1, 2024 - 5:04pm Last revised by Brian Holt on March 8, 2024 - 2:55pm.
Primary Author: Michaela Gonzalez
Proposal Status: 
Not Selected for This Round

PROPOSAL TITLE: Enhancing Equity and Value with ED-initiated Palliative Care Consults 

PROJECT LEAD(S): Michaela Gonzalez MD and Susan Lambe MD

EXECUTIVE SPONSOR(S): An executive sponsor is a senior leader(s) in your clinical or operational area who is responsible for the overall success of the project and can assist with the removal of systems barriers. Project teams must remain in regular contact with their executive sponsor(s) throughout the project year. 

Community based Patient Navigator Program as an Intervention to Minimize the impact of Social Determinants of Health on Surgical Outcomes in Pediatric Population

Submitted by Lan Vu on March 1, 2024 - 5:00pm Last revised by Brian Holt on March 8, 2024 - 2:55pm.
Proposal Status: 
Not Selected for This Round
  • PROJECT LEAD(S): Lan Vu, MD, MAS; Doruk Ozgediz, MD, MSc
  • EXECUTIVE SPONSOR(S): Atsuko Baba, MD; Hanmin Lee, MD
  • ABSTRACT - One paragraph summary of your proposed initiative – Limit 1500 characters (with spaces)

There is growing literature on the importance of social determinants of health (SDoH) on surgical quality outcomes in the pediatric population.

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

ABSTRACT  

UCSF Advanced Heart Failure Comprehensive Care Center (AHF CCC) Ambulatory IV Diuretic Clinic

Submitted by Nimaljeet kaur Tarango on March 1, 2024 - 4:45pm Last revised by Brian Holt on March 8, 2024 - 2:55pm.
Proposal Status: 
Not Selected for This Round

PROPOSAL TITLE: UCSF Advanced Heart Failure Comprehensive Care Center (AHF CCC) Ambulatory IV Diuretic Clinic to reduce heart failure admissions, readmissions and improve patient outcomes and  throughput at UCSF Health

PROJECT LEAD(S): Amanda Browne, NP, MBA & Nimi Tarango, NP

EXECUTIVE SPONSOR:  Liviu Klein, MD

Decreasing avoidable hospital days for Medicine Team I long stay patients with neurocognitive and psychiatric disorders associated with behavioral disturbances who require psychiatric management

Submitted by Manisha Israni on March 1, 2024 - 3:32pm Last revised by Brian Holt on March 8, 2024 - 2:55pm.
Proposal Status: 
Not Selected for This Round

PROJECT LEADS:  

  • Misti Meador, Assistant Director of Post Acute Care 
  • Manisha Israni-Jiang, MD, HS Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Divisions of Hospital Medicine and Pediatrics, Assistant Medical Director, DHM Consult Services and Medicine Team I 

 

EXECUTIVE SPONSORS:  

  • Molly Shane, Executive Director of Care Management Patient Transitions 
  • Bradley Monash, MD, Vice Chief of Division of Hospital Medicine 

 

ABSTRACT – In 2023, Medicine Team Idocumented 424 avoidable days for patients awaiting psychiatric evaluations and interventions, which accounts for approximately 86% of the Medicine Team I census.Medicine Team I is proposing to staff a Per Diem UCSF Psychiatrist consultant assigned to their service to manage the non-emergent but labor-intensive psychiatric evaluations, longitudinal medication management, and court petitions that can add unnecessary and avoidable days to a patient’s length of stay. 

Breast Surgery: ERAS for Same-Day Discharge for Mastectomies and Reduction Mammoplasties

Submitted by Stephanie Chu on March 1, 2024 - 3:22pm Last revised by Brian Holt on March 8, 2024 - 2:55pm.
Primary Author: Annie Tang
Proposal Status: 
Not Selected for This Round

PROPOSAL TITLE: Breast Surgery: ERAS for Same-Day Discharge for Mastectomies and Reduction Mammoplast

Expanding access to specialty care for autism

Submitted by Christie Lin on March 1, 2024 - 1:40pm Last revised by Brian Holt on March 8, 2024 - 2:55pm.
Primary Author: Christie Lin
Proposal Status: 
Not Selected for This Round

PROPOSAL TITLE: Expanding access to specialty care for autism, PROJECT LEAD: Christie Enjey Lin, EXECUTIVE SPONSOR(S): Bryan King, MD

 

Medication Error Reduction

Submitted by Scout Hebinck on March 1, 2024 - 1:29pm Last revised by Brian Holt on March 8, 2024 - 2:55pm.
Proposal Status: 
Not Selected for This Round

Medication and fluid errors contribute the highest volume of events submitted to the incident reporting system at Benioff Children’s Hospitals, impacting length of stay, and length of mechanical ventilation and mortality.

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