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Sustainable Growth Makes Us Stronger Together: DEI at Children’s National
This year’s report from Children’s National highlights the DEI Program’s progress and leadership’s unwavering commitment in spite of anti-DEI headwinds at the national level. It also captures the many ways the hospital is reaching beyond the four walls to share the lessons learned with other children’s hospitals and health systems that are on their own equity-focused journeys. The repot focuses on the 10 target areas to measure equity in care (see graphic below).
Electronic Advance Care Planning Platform
DCHA is partnering with the DC Department of Health Care Finance/CRISP DC to provide our hospitals with access to an electronic advance care planning platform aimed at improving staff workflow and supporting the quality of patient care.
MyDirectives for Clinicians Integrated in the CRISP DC HIE
This user-friendly platform allows health care providers to create, upload, and view new digital advance care planning forms whenever and wherever they are needed across all patient care teams with access to the DC HIE. Advance care planning forms available through the platform include DC MOST, National POLST, Psychiatric Advance Directive and Universal Advance Digital Directive.
How MyDirectives for Clinicians Improves the Quality of Patient Care
- All care teams, including ambulatory providers, will have access to patients’ current care planning goals, objectives, and decisions across future, urgent, and end-of-life care.
- Facilitates care that is more personalized and aligned with the patient’s preferences and priorities.
- Enables smooth transitions between different care settings as all providers are aware of the patient’s care plans.
Presentation Recordings from Opioid Response Symposium Available
The presentation recordings are available for viewing and downloading from the 2024 Opioid Response Symposium, held virtually on August 5-7.
Vincent C. Gray Health Equity Award Call for Nominations
DCHA believes that to achieve health equity we must understand the challenges, aspirations, barriers, and realities of the community. To share the example of innovative approaches to equity and shine a light on leaders across the District of Columbia, DCHA created the Vincent C. Gray Health Equity Award. DCHA recognizes the importance of health equity and is working with its member hospitals to ensure that disparities in health care quality and access are eliminated. The award is to honor and recognize individuals and organizations who are making health equity a reality in their community and leveraging engagement to improve health outcomes for those most impacted by health disparities. The award will go to an individual or organization that can demonstrate they have contributed to reducing disparities in health care quality. Nominations are due October 7, 2024. Awardees will be honored at DCHA’s Health Care & Innovation Summit on October 30.
Award Criteria:
- Individuals/organizations must show demonstrated success in changing systems that impact health outcomes in one or more of the following areas: access to quality care, health disparities, equity, diversity, inclusion.
- Efforts must be targeted to improve outcomes for vulnerable groups most affected by health disparities (racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities, sexual and gender minorities).
- Successful implementation of a systems change approach to reduce health disparities within the past five years.
- Illustrate measured improvement in health equity or reduction or elimination of disparities in health that adversely affect vulnerable populations.
- Ability to show others how to reduce disparities in quality, access, and outcomes.
United Medical Center’s Care Center Provides Diagnostic and Clinical Services for the Community
The Care Center is part of United Medical Center and is a nationally recognized, outpatient infectious diseases treatment facility. The Care Center provides diagnostic and clinical services for infections and infectious diseases. The community can find The Care Center in the medical office building adjacent to United Medical Center’s emergency department.
When it opened in 2011, The Care Center provided treatment for people diagnosed with hepatitis and HIV, and now offers care and treatment for skin and soft tissue infections, bone and joint infections, pneumonia, tuberculosis and other infections.
The Care Center built a reputation for its patient services and the sophisticated, compassionate and holistic treatment of people living with HIV/AIDS, offering health education, psychological counseling, patient navigation and referral services, support groups, and medical case management. The Care Center’s work and the efforts of Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick, MD were featured in the 2012 International AIDS Society conference held in Washington, D.C. Dr. Fitzpatrick was also included in the PBS documentary Endgame: AIDS in Black America.
News articles have highlighted The Care Center’s work and services have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post and the UK Guardian.
In 2013, The Care Center collaborated with the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Greater than AIDS campaign. That partnership brought singer Alicia Keys to UMC where she met with women living with HIV and learned about their stories of survival.
In an ongoing effort to improve upon our quality health care and treatment options, The Care Center has secured grant funding from Gilead Sciences, Inc., D.C. Department of Health, and National Institutes of Health which partially support clinical care and research activities.
May 2024 Utilization Report
Highlights: A generalized increase is noted across all focus utilization metrics this month compared to January 2020 baseline. Acute care admissions moved from -13% under the baseline last month to -10% in May (Fig. 1) with all except one hospital showing a slight increase in volumes as shown in Table 2 of the report. Emergency department visits and psychiatric admissions both show a slight increase in volumes this month going from -23% to -22% and -21% to -19% below baseline respectively. Observation admissions and ambulatory surgeries continue to remain over 2020 baseline as portrayed in Fig. 1 below.
Reduced variation in observation admissions has been seen over the past few months. In addition, volumes show a recovery compared to the height of the COVID-19 pandemic after the emergency was declared in March 2020 as depicted in Fig. 2 below. Comparing March 2023 to March 2020 volumes there is a noted recovery even though some variation is observed as depicted in Fig. 2. Conversely, psychiatric admissions continue to fluctuate around the post-COVID median and have returned to pre-COVID volumes with the biggest drop observed from March to April 2020 following the emergency declaration as shown in Fig. 3 below.
Early Bird Rate for Health Care & Innovation Summit Ends September 1
Health Care & Innovation Summit
October 30, 8 am – 4 pm, AAMC Learning Center
DCHA’s Health Care & Innovation Summit will feature four tracks that highlight strategic issues and quality health care breakthroughs through diverse topics and shared ideas. Our expert speakers represent a variety of backgrounds and offer perspectives based on hands-on experience and the latest research. Speakers and panelists will discuss patient safety and health care quality through the lens of the theme, Transforming Health Care: Lead. Collaborate. Improve. Breakout sessions will feature submissions from the Abstract Competition and recognition of the Health Care & Innovation Summit Award recipients. Register today to get the early bird rate of $299 for one ticket or $2,600 for 10 tickets. Continuing education credits are available.