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Giving Team Members a Voice

A Food and Nutrition team creates an environment where employees feel free to voice their opinions and ideas—and can expect action to be taken on their input.

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IV bags and tubing.

Provide Care With Secondary Tubing

By using secondary tubing , which can be just as safe as primary tubing for many IV uses, this team saved a bunch of money.

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Why This Matters
  • When not medically necessary, primary tubing is wasteful.
Test of Change
  • Switching from primary tubing to secondary tubing, whenever appropriate
Tags: Affordability, Patient Safety, Quality, Service, Outpatient
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Falls Church Medical Center. Family Practice Clinical Assistant Davietta Carter-Hammond.

Get Out Front of Hypertension

Adult Primary Care team increased the proportion of patients with their high blood pressure under control after a concerted outreach effort.

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Why This Matters
  • Controlling high-blood pressure is essential to patient health.
Test of Change
  • Reaching out to at-risk patients for hypertension, especially diabetics
Tags: Chronic Disease Management, Patient Safety, Quality, Service, Outpatient
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Laboratory Medical Technologist Celena Anderson and patient Magnolia Ramey.

New Needles Bruise Less, Please Patients

Complaints about bruising dropped after this lab team took action to identify the root of the problem and get better supplies.

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Why This Matters
  • A gentle touch shows patients we care and reduces their anxiety.
Test of Change
  • Switching to a different needle provider
Tags: Affordability, Patient Safety, Quality, Service, Laboratory, Outpatient
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