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Quality Improvement: The Medical Home Leadership Network. Kate Orville, MPH Washington State Partnerships for Medical Homes Meeting November 2, 2006. Overview. The Medical Home Leadership Network Team QI Activity: Spring Conference How to Increase Medical Home Teams
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Quality Improvement: The Medical Home Leadership Network Kate Orville, MPH Washington State Partnerships for Medical Homes Meeting November 2, 2006
Overview • The Medical Home Leadership Network • Team QI Activity: Spring Conference • How to Increase Medical Home Teams • How to Increase Team QI Opportunities • Questions
MHLN Teams • Integration of Networks (local, state) • Forum to Improve Care • ID 1+ Local Needs & How to Address Based on Strengths • Team Activities • Incubate/Adapt Ideas • Promote Best Practices- • Community Resources • Providing Care
Washington State Medical Home Leadership Network PEND OREILLE WHATCOM FERRY OKANOGAN SAN JUAN SKAGIT STEVENS SNOHOMISH ISLAND CLALLAM CHELAN DOUGLAS SPOKANE JEFFERSON LINCOLN KITSAP KING MASON GRAYS HARBOR GRANT ADAMS KITTITAS PIERCE WHITMAN THURSTON FRANKLIN GARFIELD PACIFIC YAKIMA LEWIS COLUMBIA WAHKIAKUM BENTON COWLITZ WALLA WALLA ASOTIN SKAMANIA KLICKITAT CLARK Regions Northwest Central King & Pierce East Southwest Regional Resource Teams
Conference as QI • The Medical home IS QI—listening to parents to learn how to do what you’re doing better – Dr. A. Chris Olson • Spring Conference is QI- listening to teams to find out what TA they need to improve medical homes as team and individuals
May 30, 2007 Conference • Purpose: Inspire, Inform, Empower • Planning Process: • Talk to Team coordinators, Review MD Needs Assessment, NICHQ Medical Home Learning Collaborative Findings, WA & US Priorities for CSHCN, Past Conference evaluations • Topics: Family-Provider Partnerships, Mental/Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, QI, State Initiatives, Team Evolution • Planning Committee
May 30, 2007 Conference:Proposed Outcomes • Team Members Energized and Act to Improve Care as Teams and Individuals • Horizontal & Vertical Networking and Relationship Building • Belief You Can Make a Difference-(Local/State) • Stronger Family-Professional Partnerships and Infrastructure, Better Knowledge and Use of Care Coordination and Other Medical Home Tools, Increased Outreach to PCPs and Others • Improvement in Quality of Medical Homes in WA
Increase MHLN Teams Enhance Current Model - Support for Teams and Medical Home Concept • Visible Support & Encouragement from Peer Orgs and Health Care System Partners • Newsletters, Recognition, Inclusion in Policy Decisions, CE Credits… • In-kind or Financial Support • Travel Money for Speakers/TA, Provide TA, Collaborate on Grants, Team Stipends…
Increase MHLN Teams cont… • Recruitment • ID Champions-- Outstanding PCPs/clinics, Parents, Communities • Have Teams Recruit Each Other • Integrate w/Existing Initiatives • “In-house” Teams
Provide Teams QI Opportunities • QI Skills Transferable • Publicize Opportunities Through Listserv, Website, Conference • QI Opportunity Examples: • Children’s Preventive Health Care Collaborative • Medical Home QI Tools e.g., Medical Home Index/Family Survey training • Improving Chronic Care Efforts, e.g. WA State Diabetes Collaborative
For More Information: Washington State Medical Home Leadership Network www.medicalhome.org Kate Orville orville@u.washington.edu 206-685-1279 Katherine TeKolste kat423@u.washington.edu Funded by the Washington State Dept. of Health, Children with Special Health Care Needs Program
Dissemination of Innovations • Find Sound Innovations • Find and Support Innovators • Invest in Early Adopters • Make Early Adopter Activity Observable • Trust and Enable Reinvention • Create Slack for Change • Lead by Example -Berwick, D.M, JAMA, April 16, 2003, Vol 289, No. 15