Valley Baptist Harlingen Initiatives

Wave I

• ED Wait Time - Door to Doctor
• Operating Room Turnaround Time
• Nursing Activation of Orders
• Staff Scheduling
• Pharmacy Verification of Orders
• Diabetes Management
• Event Response
• Family Practice Residency Clinic Patient Throughput
• Advance Directives

Wave II

• ED Wait Time – Doctor to Disposition
• Operating Room Turnaround Time
• Admissions
• Discharge Process
• Radiology – CT Turnaround to ED
• Laboratory Turnaround Time
• Polypharmacy Medication Management
• HR Benefits
• Capital Asset Management

Wave III

• Surgery Patient Preparation/PATT
• ED Wait Time – Doctor to Disposition
• Nursing Admissions Assessment
• Performance Management
• RN New Hire Process
• DRG Assurance of Accuracy
• Outpatient Services Redesign
• Patient Registration Accuracy
• Harlingen Physician Network (HPN) Billing and Collections
• Employee Onboarding
• Patient Onboarding

Wave IV

• Pathology Process Flow Improvement
• STO Turnaround
• Clinical Patient Safety - Abbreviations
• Congestive Heart Failure
• Late Charges, Days to Bill
• Inpatient Floor to Floor Transfers
• Golden Palms - MDS Coding Accuracy
• Utilization of Ancillary Services by the ED
• Pain Management
• Acute Myocardial Infarction
• Patient ID before treatments
• Claims and Incident Reporting Process Improvement
• Patient Complaints
• Stroke Care
• Timely & Safe Medication Turnaround
• Document Management
• OP Services Integration

Wave V

• Interdisciplinary Communication in Care Planning
• Ancillary Departments Results Availability
• VBMC-Harlingen Accessibility
• Pneumonia - Evidence Based Medicine
• ED Registration and Accuracy
• Valley Health Plan - Physician Pay for Performance

Wave VI

• Patient Throughput
• Medication Reconciliation
• Cath Lab Capacity
• Critical Care Glucose Management
• CABG-Core Measures

Wave VII

• Labor and Delivery Triage Turnaround Time
• Prevent Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
• Dialysis Patient Wait Times
• Admissions Process
• Radiology Turnaround Time
• Food Service Accuracy
• Harlingen Physician Network Charge Capture
  

Wave VIII

• Acute Refractory Pain Reduction
• Inpatient Diabetes Management
• Nutritional Care in the ICU 
• Central Line Care and Maintenance (Dual Campus Initiative) 
• Door to Balloon (Dual Campus Initiative)
• Application of Evidence Based Medicine to Hip and Knee Replacement Procedures (Dual Campus Initiative)
  

Wave IX

• Indwelling Urinary Catheter Usage (Dual Campus Initiative)
• Prevention and Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock (Dual Campus)
• Management of Medical Rental Equipment (Dual Campus)
• Food Tray Timeliness and Accuracy (Dual Campus)
• Heparin to Warfarin Conversion Protocol (Dual Campus)
• Referrals to Owned/Partnered Entities (Dual Campus)
• Time Away From Work
• Stroke Core Measures