VBMC-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