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Small Changes, Healthy Babies—A Quicker Path to Vaccinations

  • Giving injections in the exam room, rather than the injection clinic
  • Limiting the choice for physicians to two versions of the same vaccine to choose from—instead of several
  • Huddling among medical assistants and physicians once or twice a day to determine which of their incoming patients need vaccines. Medical assistants then have the shots ready for those patients
What can your team do to use small tests of change in tackling large problems?

TOOLS

PPT: Primary Care UBT Gives Patient Gift of Time

Format:
PPT

Size:
1 Slide

Intended audience:
LMP employees, UBT consultants, improvement advisers

Best used:
This PowerPoint slide features a Colorado Primary Care team and a Northwest Regional Infusion Center that has given the gift of time by implementing a faster way of administrating medication used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Use in presentations to show some of the methods used and the measurable results being achieved by unit-based teams across Kaiser Permanente. 

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PPT: New Printers Lead to Shorter Lines
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TOOLS

PPT: Hawaii Team Cuts Wait Times in Half

Format:
PPT

Size:
1 slide

Intended audience:
LMP staff, UBT consultants and improvement advisers

Best used:
This PowerPoint slide features a team at the Honolulu Clinic that reduced patient wait times by making one nurse responsible for giving injections each day. Use in presentations to show some of the methods used and the measurable results being achieved by unit-based teams across Kaiser Permanente.

Related tools:
PPT: Lab Gets Quicker on the Draw
Powerpoint: Nurses Help Newborns Get Closer to Moms
PowerPoint: Sleep Clinic Finds Cause of Repeat Studies
PowerPoint: Errors Drop With Pre-Op Double up
PPT: New Printers Lead to Shorter Lines
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