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How Can Academic and Healthcare Institutions support a National Strategy?. Let’s start with why!. “ At IHI we believe these three rules:
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How Can Academic and Healthcare Institutions support a National Strategy?
“At IHI we believe these three rules: 1.health care systems can be sustained with modest annual cost increases; 2.there is enough capacity in the system to provide equitable quality care for all; and 3.solutions to national problems can be found at the regional level” Maureen Bosignano IHI President and CEO
“We have to shift funding to where we get the highest value…we need to be better at ensuring that patients get the “right care in the right place at the right time for the right price” The Honourable Deb Matthews, Minister of Health
Ontario Bariatric Network • Standardization of care: referral process team based assessments/collaboration weekly team meetings/case discussions pre and post surgical care and follow up surgical care- volumes medical programs-next steps
OBN: Access to Care • Bariatric Registry centralized intake reduces wait times care closest to home rich data source quality indicators bariatric registry score card
OBN: Patient and Professional Education • OBN Web site professional resources patient education resources policies general information
Centres of Excellence • Share what you have learned- formal and informal research, case studies • Share your policies and procedures for Clinics, Operating Rooms, In-patient care, Care Maps. • Post them on your hospital web site- share internally Example: continuous oximetry monitoring- policy and procedure designed for bariatric program is now in use across the surgical program
Bariatric Resource • Bariatric Care Committee • Emergency Response/lift teams • Accessibility-Redevelopment-toilets • Bariatric equipment- what to buy? • Sensitivity training for staff • Expect non bariatric hospitals to call for help