Posted for Dr. Ouellette from 5\/30\/2019 email:<\/p>\n
1. The Lean Program is a system-wide initiative to improve the health care experience of patients, and the efficacy and safety of selected operations, for all clinics and other health care environments.\u00a0 A team from the Pulmonary and Critical Care division has been engaged in studying our clinic environment and targeting process changes.\u00a0 The following changes will be introduced in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 2.\u00a0 Clinic staff at Main will be assessing patient needs for refills at the initiation of outpatient visits.\u00a0 Appropriate requests for refills of respiratory medications will be entered as pended orders into the clinic visit EPIC workspace.\u00a0 The provider will have the opportunity to sign these orders, update or change the orders, or delete the orders during the clinic visit.\u00a0\u00a0 The purpose of this change is to increase the ease\/efficacy of the provider work flow and guarantee that the patient receives needed refills during their visit.\u00a0 Outcomes will be monitored and feedback solicited.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 3.\u00a0 Team huddles will be held for the clinic at Main beginning in the near future.\u00a0 Initially, the huddle will occur once weekly but frequency may increase.\u00a0 The huddle will be an informal meet-up at about 11 AM and will last no more than 10 minutes.\u00a0 The morning clinic checker will be asked to try and attend these huddles.\u00a0 The purpose will be to address acute contingencies, safety issues, and work flow processes.\u00a0 Participants’ feedback will be sought.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Posted for Dr. Ouellette from 5\/30\/2019 email: 1. The Lean Program is a system-wide initiative to improve the health care experience of patients, and the efficacy and safety of selected operations, for all clinics and other health care environments. A team from the Pulmonary and Critical Care division has been engaged in studying our clinic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinic","category-uncategorized"],"modified_by":"Krishna Thavarajah","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}