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- Peninsula Circle of Care developed a risk assessment tool that takes into account medical factors and key social determinants.By: Yvonne Chan | June 19, 2015 |Program Challenges: Identify Which Patients Need Extra Help |Topics: Identifying causes of readmission
- Peninsula Circle of Care tries to ensure that new team members are introduced to patients by someone they already know and trust.By: Yvonne Chan | June 19, 2015 |Patient and Family Challenges: Not Receptive to Home Visits |Topics: After-hospital care, Effective teamwork
- In addition to risk assessments and referrals, Peninsula Circle of Care lets patients who realize they need help sign up themselves.By: Yvonne Chan | June 19, 2015 |Patient and Family Challenges: Not Receptive to Our Help |Program Challenges: Identify Which Patients Need Extra Help |Topics: After-hospital care
- Peninsula Circle of Care shares new and useful community services by mining the expertise of its individual team members.By: Yvonne Chan | June 19, 2015 |Patient and Family Challenges: Social Challenges |Program Challenges: Limited Resources |Topics: After-hospital care, Effective teamwork
- Peninsula Circle of Care at Mills Peninsula redesigned their home assessment form to better meet the needs of their elderly patients.By: Yvonne Chan | June 19, 2015 |Patient and Family Challenges: Low Health Literacy |Program Challenges: Communicating with Patients |Topics: Measuring and improving
- Mills Peninsula audited and streamlined their workflow when they realized patients were getting confused by multiple follow up phone calls.By: Yvonne Chan | June 19, 2015 |Program Challenges: Communicating with Patients, Making Follow-up Calls or Home Visits |Topics: After-hospital care, Effective teamwork, Patient engagement, Using resources effectively
- El Camino Hospital uses staff training, videos, and peer review to teach teach-back.By: Ruth Zaltsmann | June 19, 2015 |Program Challenges: Communicating with Patients, Determining Skills Needed on the Team |Topics: Establishing a program
- St. Rose gives small medication cards to their patients as a tool for keeping track of their medication post-discharge.By: Shogofa Zamon | June 18, 2015 |Patient and Family Challenges: Low Health Literacy, Understanding Medication Instructions |Topics: After-hospital care, Patient engagement
- St. Rose tailored Project Red’s patient assessment form to the needs of their program and their patient advocates.
- At St. Rose, the discharge team wears red scrubs to build team spirit and make them easily identifiable by patients.By: Shogofa Zamon | June 18, 2015 |Program Challenges: Motivating the Team |Topics: Organizational buy-in