Project Repository
This is what we have heard is going on throughout the system to improve patient flow. If you're working on, leading, or know about a project not on this list, please use our online form to submit projects so we can add them to the repository.
If you'd like to know more about a project on the repository, you can either reach directly out to the listed contact or email the PFPA Physician Sponsor Mark Sutherland to get connected with the project leaders.
2 in 30 ED to Medicine
Description: Expediting movement of ED patients to the inpatient space when admitting to medicine
Facility: UMMC DTC
Contact: Mike Winters
ED Vertical 3s
Description: Evaluating methods to manage ESI three patients without using a physical bed in the ED (vertical flow refers to the patient remaining vertical, i.e. in a chair or waiting area)
Facility: UMMC DTC
Contact: Cheyenne Falat
Rapid Outpatient Follow from the ED
Description: An Epic based method to arrange appropriate follow up from the ED so patients who are more appropriately seen in clinic can be easily and rapidly discharged
Contact: Renay Tyler
ED Boarder Overflow
Description: An effort to streamline workflows for moving patients directly from UMMC inpatient units (pilot is starting with neurology) to UMROI med-surg unit, to offload UMMC and expedite eventual movement to the rehab setting
Contact: Chirag Chaudhari
UMMC to UMROI Accelerated Recovery
Description: An effort to streamline workflows for moving patients directly from UMMC inpatient units (pilot is starting with neurology) to UMROI med-surg unit, to offload UMMC and expedite eventual movement to the rehab setting
Contact: Julie Mills
Discharge Lounge
Description: An area where patients in the discharge process (e.g. awaiting a ride or other patients not requiring further care or monitoring but yet ready to leave the hospital) can wait to open up the inpatient bed more quickly
Contact: Krystal Lighty
Discharge Planning Project
Description: The UMMS Discharge Planning Project is a system wide initiative to use Epic tools to increase transparency among the interdisciplinary team and track the patient’s progress toward discharge. Using the facility Discharge Milestone list and Discharge Planning Activity allows the interdisciplinary team to identify barriers and delays to a patient’s discharge. Seeing these barriers and delays allows the team to address them and ensure the patient continues to progress to discharge in a timely manner.
Contact: Kristie Snedeker
2 in 30 Discharge to Home
Description: Reducing hospital length of stay when discharging to home including optimizing use of EDD in EPIC, optimizing weekend workflows, changing discharge culture
Contact: Catherine Miller
2 in 30 Discharge to Facilities
Description: Reducing hospital length of stay when discharge to facilities (SNF, SAR, Acute Rehab)
Contact: Catherine Miller
Discharge Optimization for Home Discharges at STC
Description: Analyzing data to determine where the issues lie which slow our home discharges. Working with pharmacy and community resources to optimize medications and resources to care respectively)
Facility: Shock Trauma Center
Contact: Michelle Willis
Surgical Smoothing
Description: Surg-Sentinel AnchOR for the UMMC DTC. Predictive model to match surgical procedures with open staffed beds for patients who will require inpatient admission following their surgical procedure. Trial use will be initiated with 3 service lines at DTC once the work plan is built.
Facility: UMMC DTC
Contact: Jeff Wolf