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Quality Time: Sharing PIE (performance improvement experience)

Quality Time: Sharing PIE (performance improvement experience)

By Stratis Health

Listen and learn from the lived experience of skilled critical access hospital quality improvement (QI) staff from across the country! These virtual QI mentors will come together periodically for quality time to share PIE—their performance improvement experience. They discuss key themes that help drive quality improvement in their rural hospitals. Listen to their lessons learned, strategies, tips, and ideas. Find valued supportive resources for each of their topics, along with their favorite real pie recipes!
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QI Mentor Conversation: Improving Swing Bed Quality

Quality Time: Sharing PIE (performance improvement experience)Aug 28, 2023

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QI Mentor Conversation: Improving Swing Bed Quality

QI Mentor Conversation: Improving Swing Bed Quality

In this session of Quality Time: Sharing PIE, mentors Kathe Bryant from Covington County Hospital in Collins, Mississippi, and Cara Cruz from Carson Valley Medical Center (CVMC) in Gardnerville, Nevada, share the proactive approaches they took to improve their swing bed programs.

Aug 28, 202317:16
QI Mentor Conversation: Preventing Readmissions

QI Mentor Conversation: Preventing Readmissions

In this session of Quality Time: Sharing PIE, mentors Tammy Sudtelgte from Floyd Valley Healthcare in Le Mars, Iowa, Stacey Karvoski from Wallowa Memorial Hospital in Enterprise, Oregon, and Linda Webb from Pulaski Memorial Hospital in Winamac, Indiana share their varied approaches their teams have used to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions.

Aug 01, 202321:22
QI Mentor Conversation: Fall Prevention Strategies

QI Mentor Conversation: Fall Prevention Strategies

In this session of Quality Time: Sharing PIE, QI Mentors Gloria Barth from Harrison County Hospital, Corydon, Indiana and Jen Monzo, from McKenzie Health System, Sandusky, Michigan, share how they implemented successful fall prevention strategies at their critical access hospitals.

Jul 03, 202316:10
QI Mentor Conversation: Patient and Family Engagement

QI Mentor Conversation: Patient and Family Engagement

In this session of Quality Time: Sharing PIE, Mentors Karen Hooker from Melissa Memorial Hospital in Holyoke, Colorado, and Brenda Stevenson from Titusville Area Hospital in Titusville, Pennsylvania, share some of the ways that staff at their facilities routinely engage patients and families in the care process.

Dec 06, 202114:47
QI Mentor Conversation: Making Quality Improvement Fun

QI Mentor Conversation: Making Quality Improvement Fun

In this session of Quality Time: Sharing PIE, Mentors Mariah Hesse, BSN, RN, CENP, from Sparrow Clinton Hospital, St. Johns, Michigan, and Brenda Stevenson, RN, from Titusville Area Hospital, Titusville, Pennsylvania, share how they work to make quality improvement (QI) fun and engaging for the staff at their hospitals, including creative ways they've found to draw in staff from all levels at their facilities.

Aug 04, 202118:50
QI Mentor Conversation: Using “Small Data” to Drive Big Improvements

QI Mentor Conversation: Using “Small Data” to Drive Big Improvements

In this session of Sharing PIE, Ben Power, MS, CPHQ, from Barrett Hospital & HealthCare in Dillon, Montana, and ArvaDell Sharp, RN, from Pembina County Memorial Hospital in Cavalier, North Dakota, talk about data and how they approach using different sources of data in their small critical access hospitals.

Jun 02, 202115:12
QI Mentor Conversation: How Board and Leadership Drive Quality Outcomes

QI Mentor Conversation: How Board and Leadership Drive Quality Outcomes

In this second leadership-focused session of Sharing PIE, executive, board, and clinical representatives from Sparrow Clinton Hospital in St. Johns, Michigan, share examples of how their board and senior leaders are engaged in helping drive quality outcomes.

Mar 04, 202113:60
QI Mentor Conversation: Involving Board and Leadership to Drive Quality Outcomes

QI Mentor Conversation: Involving Board and Leadership to Drive Quality Outcomes

In this episode, quality, clinical, and board representatives from Horizon Health’s Paris Community Hospital in Paris, Illinois, discuss how successful board and leadership engagement drives quality outcomes.

Feb 02, 202115:48
QI Mentor Conversation: Engaging the Whole Team

QI Mentor Conversation: Engaging the Whole Team

In this episode, QI Mentors Cindy Gilman from Carroll County Memorial Hospital in Carrollton Missouri, and Christy Mintah from Avera Holy Family Hospital in Estherville, Iowa discuss how to engage the whole hospital team in quality improvement.

Dec 01, 202016:00
QI Mentor Conversation: The Impact of COVID-19 on Quality Improvement

QI Mentor Conversation: The Impact of COVID-19 on Quality Improvement

In this episode, Mariah Hesse from, Sparrow Clinton Hospital in St. Johns, Michigan, and Ben Power from Barrett Hospital & HealthCare in Dillon, Montana, discuss the impact COVID-19 had on their hospitals with regards to quality improvement (QI), and how they adapted their QI work accordingly.

Aug 04, 202014:19
QI Mentor Conversation: Becoming a Quality Improvement Leader

QI Mentor Conversation: Becoming a Quality Improvement Leader

In this session of Quality Time: Sharing PIE, Cindy Gilman from Carrol County Memorial Hospital in Carrolton Missouri, and Karen Hooker from Kit Carson County Health Service District in Burlington Colorado, healthcare professionals from very different backgrounds, talk about how they became quality leaders. 

Apr 23, 202013:12