Colloquium Heart Failure Summer Webinar Series
As a hospital membership organization, Colloquium member hospitals produce informative webinars each month. Topics are chosen by the member hospitals themselves and are usually related to sharing best practices, accreditation milestone development, and breaking news like the healthcare reform bill and its implications for heart failure.
The Colloquium’s Heart Failure Webinar Series is open to others interested in improving heart failure care processes by invitation. To participate in a webinar, register on the Colloquium’s website http://www.thacinc.com.
Aquapheresis in the Real World
July 28, 2010 (Wednesday) from Noon – 1:00 pm (ET) Please logon 10 minutes ahead of the webinar
Presenters: Santosh Menon, MD and Robin Baldauf, RN
Volume overload is a constant concern for those with heart failure. Advances in technology make what was theoretically possible years ago available today. Santosh Menon, MD and Robin Baldauf, RN review the historic context of aquapheresis in heart failure and present their remarkable results and experience at the Carl H. & Edyth Lindner Heart Failure Treatment Center at The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio an Accredited Heart Failure Institute.
Compassion and Caring in Heart Failure
August 25, 2010
Presenters: Doreen Strain, RN and Mary Pat Campbell, RN, BCC, NACC
Compassion and caring are needed in heart failure. Doreen Strain, RN (Florida Hospital – Zephyrhills) and Mary Pat Campbell, RN, BCC, NACC (Aspirus Wausau Hospital) co-chair the Colloquium’s Palliative Care and Hospice Workgroup. They will review the progress of their workgroup and explore the meaning of compassion and caring in the lives of those with heart failure.
Heart Failure Discharge Planning is out. Transitioning is here!
September 22, 2010
Presenters: Mark Starling, MD; Michael O’Meara, MD; Jody Bock, RN, MSN, PCCN, CNS-BC
Radical redesign is needed to break the readmission rate conundrum. Banner Heart Hospital, the first Accredited Heart Failure Institute in Arizona, began their improvement journey by extensive process mapping producing Deming’s “profound knowledge” needed for success. Dr. Mark Starling, Dr. Michael O’Meara and Jody Bock chronicle Banner’s extraordinary work and its implications for the future of heart failure care in America.
Previous Webinars
Using a Heart Failure Acuity Algorithm for Emergency Admission Decision-Making
August 26, 2009
Presenters: Robert Touchan, MD; Frank Smart, MD; Tony Joseph, MD
Heart failure is chronic and progressive. Nearly 100% of all heart failure patients decompensate at some point. It is common for individuals with decompensated heart failure to present to the Emergency Department (ED) for evaluation and treatment. A systematic algorithm based upon objective clinical variables can be used as a decision-making framework for this population of patients. Objective clinical variables (OCVs) can include historic data and physical findings as well as test results. Obtaining and organizing the OCVs in the ED prior to the admission decision permits the ED to become the site of decision-making that is often otherwise relegated to inpatient services. Once the ED becomes the site of decision-making the opportunity exists for the ED to become the site of service as well. Understanding the site of service decisions and how to move them from the inpatient unit to the emergency department can directly lead to length of stay and readmission rate reduction. Using an acuity adjusted algorithm for admission decisions is likely to lead to improved assessment of emergently decompensated patients with heart failure, earlier treatment, more effective admission decision-making, and result in decreased length of stay and readmission rates.[Read More]
Success in the Journey: Growing Your Heart Failure Program
July 23, 2009
Presenters: Elaine Greer, RN, MN, CCRN
What we are doing in our heart failure clinics is a kind of journey. How we define success in our journey becomes a matter of perspective and experience. As we gain more experience, our perspective changes. The outpatient heart failure clinic plays a major role in the Community Domain of Heart Failure. From the practical standpoint, the outpatient heart failure clinic can have a positive impact on hospital LOS and readmission. More importantly, the outpatient clinic contributes substantially to quality of life and quantity of life of our patients as well.
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