Management Innovation Poster Session Narratives

A collection of Management Innovations Poster Session narratives from healthcare leaders offering solutions for increasing capacity in hospitals. Topics include directing patient flow, increasing communication, increasing ER capacity, ER redesign, shortening the discharge process, decreasing length of stay and telemedicine.

 

Directing patient flow:

Improving Emergency Department Patient Flow through Automated Visual Management Systems—2020 (PDF)
Hugh Welch; Michael Faircloth, MD; Kim Joye, RN; et al.

Implementation of a Surgical Transfer Unit: An Innovative Approach to Increase Timely Access to Surgical Subspecialists—2019 (PDF)
Adam S. Royer, RN, FACHE, CNOR, NREMT, NEA-BC

Split Flow Model of Care: A Solution for Emergency Department Patient Flow—2018 (PDF)
Jeneen Carman, DNP, RN

Streams of Care: Impact of Split Flow Model on Emergency Medicine—2016 (PDF)
Kimberley DuBose; Johnie Leonard, RN


Increasing communications:

Adopting a Tiered Huddle System to Empower Broad Based Action—2019 (PDF)
LTC Donald Sexton, FACHE; MAJ Brent Hayward; MAJ Armando Generoso; et al.

Unit-Based Simulation Initiative to Improve Teamwork and Communication in the Emergency Department —2017 (PDF)
Kaedrea Jackson, MD; Eric Legome, MD; Joey Freedman, MD; et al.


Increasing ER capacity, ER redesign:

Improved Satisfaction and Performance with Emergency Department Renovation—2018 (PDF)
Diane Pleiman, FACHE; Ivy Thoman, RN; Regan Henry, PhD; et al.

Lean 2P Approach to Implementation of ED Observation Unit —2017 (PDF)
Kaedrea Jackson, MD; Eli Brown, MD; Joshua Schechter, MD; et al

The After-Hours Use of Rehab Department Rooms as ED Consultation Rooms: Improving Service Quality While Decreasing ED Overcrowding—2017 (PDF)
Leslie Chia, Lee Khai Pin, Lee Choy Kuan, et al.


Shortening discharge process, decreasing LOS:

Increasing Hospital Bed Capacity by Optimizing Outpatient Surgical Discharges—2019 (PDF)
Justin Cox, Ryan Fix, Mario A. Cuartas, et al.

Development of a Complex Discharge Process—2018 (PDF)
Krystal Hawkins, Alisa Kanuit, Ashley Kappmeyer, et al.

Improving ED LOS by Reducing CT Throughput Time —2017 (PDF)
Kimberley DuBose; Johnie Leonard, RN; Michelle Stone


Telemedicine:

Bringing Specialty Care to Rural Communities with Telemedicine—2020 (PDF)
Rachel Amundson, Eileen Anderson, Hollie Stegemann, et al.

Implementation of a Tele-Primary Care Program to Expand Access to Rural Veterans in the Southeast —2018 (PDF)
Jennifer R. Bonds, FACHE; Robert Norvel, MD; Ijeoma Kene-Ewulu, MD, FRCS; et al.