Operational/Financial Efficiency

Toolkits, processes and protocols to improve operational and financial efficiency that offer an edge in a highly competitive market environment.

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	Hospital Surge Capacity Toolkit Santa Clara County Public Health created this toolkit to provide guidelines, strategies, insights and lessons learned, as well as key tools and prototypes for implementation. This toolkit is intended to assist healthcare facilities in evaluating critical issues related to healthcare surge and to create comprehensive plans to address these needs including: Providing medical surge capacity; Patient tracking within the hospital and during patient forwarding activities; Requesting resources and Establishing alternate care sites.
	Project BOOST (Better Outcomes for Older adults through Safe Transition) Project BOOST, created in 2008 by the Society of Hospital Medicine with support from the John A. Hartford Foundation, implemented an approach to improving the hospital discharge process with the goal of decreasing readmission rates among elderly patients. This web-based toolkit will walk one through each step of designing, implementing and evaluating an intervention.
	Hospital Guidelines for Pediatrics in Disasters The Central Brooklyn Center for Bioterrorism Preparedness Planning (CBPP) Pediatric Task Force and the New York Center for Terrorism/Casualty Preparedness have been instrumental in providing hospitals and institutions that do not normally admit children, or that have no Pediatric Intensive Care, Services or Obstetrical/Newborn services; some useful, proactive planning strategies and tools in order to protect and care for pediatric patients during a disaster.
	Improving Staff Engagement: A Practical Toolkit Developed by NHS Employers, this toolkit establishes and demonstrates that engaged staff are more productive and less prone to absenteeism. One of the main points is that investing extra time in hiring the right people and placing them in the right position is essential for success. This toolkit provides evidence of a link between engaged staff and the quality of patient care and satisfaction, in addition to actually saving money. This toolkit is available as a PDF and requires Adobe Reader.
	Planning for Scale: A Guide for Designing Large-Scale Improvement Initiatives This white paper aims to support those that are planning to take effective health care practices from one setting or isolated environment and to make them ubiquitous across a health care system, region, state, or nation. It is a preparation tool which is meant to guide conversation and thinking prior to the launch of a large-scale improvement effort (i.e., one that seeks to stimulate change in complete, geopolitical areas through mobilization of hundreds or thousands of constituent organizations). The report was developed by IHI. The report is available as a PDF and requires Adobe Reader.
	Brookings-Dartmouth Accountable Care Organization Toolkit Covering key topics in six sections, the ACO Toolkit provides a path forward for the implementation of ACOs across the country. The Toolkit strives to be both specific enough to allow organizations to clearly understand the steps needed to become an ACO, and stay broad enough to make sure the path put forward for implementation is possible for a diverse range of health care provider groups. It will also be updated and supplemented to ensure it stays relevant and helpful to health care providers as they face new challenges in advancing more accountable care.
	Health Care Leader Action Guide to Reduce Avoidable Readmissions Reducing avoidable hospital readmissions is an opportunity to improve quality and reduce costs in the health care system. This guide, developed by the Health Research and Educational Trust, is designed to serve as a starting point for hospital leaders to assess, prioritize, implement, and monitor strategies to reduce avoidable readmissions. The guide is available as a PDF and requires Adobe Reader.
	A Practical Guide for Healthy Development This Fund online manual was created to help pediatric practices redesign their office systems to improve the quality of preventive and developmental services they provide to young children. The tool was developed by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Center for Children's Healthcare Improvement and by the Vermont Child Health Improvement Program at the University of Vermont. A web browser is required to view this manual.
	Performing Preventive Services: A Bright Futures Handbook This Clinical Guide—designed to accompany the Bright Futures Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents—provides authoritative, evidence-based guidance about the most effective and efficient ways to deliver child preventive services. The guide sections are available as PDFs and require Adobe Reader.
	A Guide to Achieving High Performance in Multi-Hospital Health Systems Multi-hospital health systems are the most common organizational structure in the hospital industry. With Commonwealth Fund support, the Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET) has prepared A Guide to Achieving High Performance in Multi-Hospital Health Systems to inform system leaders about what they can do to ensure that patients across all of their hospitals receive high-quality care. The guide is available as a PDF and requires Adobe Reader.
	A Practical Guide for Improving Child Developmental Services This manual was created to help pediatric practices redesign their office systems to improve the quality of preventive and developmental services they provide to young children. The resources—which include checklists, surveys, bibliographies, and more—in The Guide were developed and tested in the Healthy Development Learning Collaborative, a year-long quality improvement initiative in which primary care practices in Vermont and North Carolina used improved office systems to engage families in efforts to promote positive developmental outcomes.
	Better to Best: Value-Driving Elements of the Patient Centered Medical Home and Accountable Care Organizations Better to Best: Value-Driving Elements of the Patient Centered Medical Home and Accountable Care Organizations is a new report focusing on the four elements central to the advance of such organizations—access, care coordination, health information technology, and payment reform. The report was supported by the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, The Commonwealth Fund, the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and the Milbank Memorial Fund. The toolkit is available as a PDF and requires Adobe Reader.