Accelerating Improvement Fellowship 2017

Session Date / Title / Objectives
January 18th / Why Do Improvement Projects Fail? /
  • Overview of expectations of the Fellowship and completion criteria
  • Orientation toLMS platform course materials and assignments
  • Identify topic area and developaim statement
  • Review key concepts of the Model for Improvement
  • Discuss common barriers to improvement
  • Understand the Will, Ideas & Execution Framework for “Breakthrough Improvement”

February 1st / Engaging Stakeholders in Improvement /
  • Define team composition/roles
  • Learn tools for building an engaged and committed team
  • Learn communication strategies for engaging physicians and leadership
  • Identify key methods for linking the improvement work to organizational priorities

February 15th / Generating Ideas for Change /
  • Understand the difference between fundamental and reactive change
  • Learn how to develop fundamental changes
  • Learn to communicate the theory (driver diagram) behind your improvement work
  • Learn to connect PDSA cycles to your theory

March 15th / Getting Improvement Work Done! /
  • Understand the reason for testing
  • Plan and test a PDSA
  • Understand the value of multiple PDSAs
  • Demonstrate the linkage between PDSAs, Change Ideas, Drivers, and the Aim

April 12th / Diving Deep into Data and Measurement /
  • Develop your project’s family of measures
  • Describe key components of a run chart and learn to create one
  • Interpret a run chart to determine if changes are leading to improvement
  • Understand the difference between special and common-cause variation

May 10th / How to Design Reliable Processes in Health Care /
  • Define reliability
  • Discuss key reliable design concepts
  • Understand how standardization can lead to reliable systems
  • Understand how to measure reliability
  • Appreciate how the Model for Improvement can support reliable processes

June 14th / Coaching Core Leaders in Quality /
  • The importance of engaging “Core Leaders” in quality
  • The construct and drivers that enable “Core Leaders” to engage in Quality
  • The support “Core Leaders” will need to be successful

July 12th / A Framework for Patient Safety /
  • Understand the two domains of the Framework for Safe, Reliable, and Effective Care: culture and the learning system
  • Appreciate the role of patients and families in patient safety
  • Understand how to use the Framework as a diagnostic tool within your organization

August 9th / Moving from Testing to Implementation /
  • Understand when a change is ready to move from testing to implementation
  • Identify what is needed for successful implementation and the consequences of “jumping” to implementation too early

September 13th / Spreading and Scaling Up Improvements /
  • Develop a plan for taking improvement work to scale
  • Utilize a sequence of activities that guide the development, testing and implementation of an improvement

October 11th / Sustainability: Making Your Improvements Stick /
  • Describe standard high-performance management practices
  • Describe recommended approaches to implementing a high-performance management system

November 8th / Celebration! /
  • Provide an opportunity for cross-learning among fellows around the results and lessons learned from the QI projects
  • Celebrate the hard work and active engagement of the fellows throughout the year