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Personalizing Care for Patients
Asking patients about their sexual orientation and gender identity is helping Addiction Medicine team members better identify and treat patients' health risks and needs.
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Why This Matters
- Collecting sensitive, personal information from patients can tell you a lot about their health risks and needs and help improve the quality of care for all Kaiser Permanente members.
Test of Change
- Creating a standardized process to collect information about patients’ sexual orientation, gender identity, and preferred pronouns.
Improving Access to Spinal Care
This specialty care team reduced evaluation wait times for Medicaid patients by 35% over 4 months after everyone got involved and they began scheduling phone appointments.
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Why This Matters
- Cutting evaluation wait times mean patients are connected to care sooner.
Test of Change
- Involving the entire team in the effort to administer patient evaluations.
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