Dear Community,
Thank you to everyone who attended our virtual ACTION meeting on October 29th and 30th. We continue to be inspired by our community and are excited for the next steps following our meeting! Stay tuned for more details about our projects, and as always, please let us know if you want to get more involved.
Now that the meeting has concluded, we will be resuming our monthly virtual learning sessions. See below for details and registration information for the next learning session on November 12.
Have a fun, safe and spooky Halloween!
Regards,
Berlin Heart 20th Anniversary: Two decades of breakthroughs and collaboration
Thursday, November 12, 2020
4:00 PM Eastern
Keynote Speaker
Robert Kroslowitz – President & CEO, Berlin Heart
Late-breaking ACTION Berlin Heart Data and QI Projects
Farhan Zafar, MD, MBBS – Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Make sure to submit a question or topic you want to discuss during our learning session. Please submit it on the event registration page.
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Expert Panel and Discussants:
Christopher Almond, MD – Stanford Children’s Health and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
Mark S. Bleiweis, MD – University of Florida Health, Shands Children’s Hospital
Jennifer Conway, MD – Stollery Children’s Hospital
Angela Lorts, MD – Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
David L.S. Morales, MD – Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
David N. Rosenthal, MD – Stanford Children’s Health and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
Christina VanderPluym – Boston Children’s Hospital
And YOU!
Please register by November 11, 2020. Registration is free and open to anyone interested in participating. To join us, click below:
Check it out!
New Proposal Submission Form
Do you have an idea or proposal for ACTION?
Please use this online form to submit a proposal for quality improvement projects, education materials, research proposals, and data requests
New ACTION Publication
Waitlist Paper by Seth Hollander
A coordinated approach to improving pediatric heart transplant waitlist outcomes: A summary of the ACTION November 2019 waitlist outcomes committee meeting
Check out the publication here.
Upcoming Events
November 10, 2020 (2–4:30pm ET)
Cardiac Networks United (CNU) Virtual Conference
Feeding and Nutrition in Pediatric & Congenital Cardiology
More Info | Register
November 12, 2020 (4–5pm ET)
ACTION Virtual Learning Session
Berlin Heart 20th Anniversary: Two decades of breakthroughs and collaboration
More Info | Register
New Centers
Children's Hospital of Michigan
Detroit, Michigan
- Mina Hafzala, MD
- Raya Safa, MD
Quality Improvement Updates
Discharge Committee
During the last Discharge Committee meeting, Mary Mehegan presented St. Louis Children’s Hospital’s success with transferring Berlin patients to the floor and discharging HM3/HVAD patients. The next Discharge Committee meeting will take place on November 4, 2020. We will be discussing potential other interventions to improve length of stay for our VAD patients. Please continue to test the Flight Plan and Journey Map, and enter data into REDCap on any patients who have been discharged or transferred to the floor.
Stroke QI Project
We believe that we can drive down strokes even further and are working on re-launching ABCs 2.0 soon. The project team is developing initial interventions to test that will most likely focus on real time data of stroke patients and a Stroke M&M series. Stay tuned for more details! Additionally, the REDCap fields have been revamped to make it easier and faster to enter data. Please continue to enter data into REDCap for your VAD patients.
Telehealth Project
Teams continue to develop process maps for conducting telehealth visits along with testing an algorithm around defining which patients qualify for virtual visits and sharing education materials for care teams and patients/families. In our recent huddle on October 28th, teams learned how to use the sFMEA QI tool. The next huddle is on November 11, 2020. Please continue to enter your data into REDCap for the provider and patient surveys.
Registry Database
Updates
ACTION Power BI Report
Site PI’s should expect an email from kyle.werling@cchmc.org with detailed instructions on “how to access” the interactive ACTION report. For further questions, contact Kyle Werling or email action.dcc@cchmc.org.
Data Adjudication
ACTION DCC just had our last data adjudication meeting of the year 2020. Thank you all for your support and coordination with us throughout the year. Please look for the Post Adjudication Summary report from action.dcc@cchmc.org in the coming weeks.
