Healthcare Webinars
"Taking Lean to the Next Level: One Hospital's Journey"
This case study webinar highlights the deployment of an advanced performance improvement program at a New York hospital system. Join Dan Chauncey, director of deployment services for NOVACES, and Vickie Kamataris, registered nurse and senior healthcare consultant, to hear first-hand about the incredible transformation that the hospital achieved.
Learn how the hospital successfully used our JumpStart workshop and Lean Six Sigma to identify more than 100 improvement opportunities and to create a deployment plan in less than 14 days. During the webinar, Dan and Vickie will also discuss:
- How to address the two primary reasons for difficulties with sustaining improvements
- Examples of the improvements that were generated in the first 90 days including, a reduction of CMS Core Measure Failures for CHF from 30% to 0% and a 44% improvement in ED LOS.
- How the effort produced a positive return on investment within 90 days
Attend the webinar and receive a complimentary assessment of your organization's readiness for today's most effective methods for performance improvement in healthcare.
Date: Wednesday, September 22
Time: Offered at 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
"Best Practices in RAC Prepraredness"
Join Deborah Smith, former VP of Process Improvement for the largest hospital system in Colorado and NOVACES RAC team lead, for her insights on which elements you need to focus on to successfully prepare your organization for a RAC audit.
Reduce your chances of wasting valuable labor hours and distracting important resources from delivering patient care. Don't allow your organization to suffer from large Medicare take-backs, or worse, an inaccurate or non-compliant RAC response.
If you are responsible for preparing your organization for RAC, don't miss this important webinar that will provide you with the information you need to get started, or even refine, your RAC response program.
Date: Tuesday, July 20 (Check back for another opportunity to view this webinar soon!)
Time: Offered at 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
"Medication Reconciliation: A Big Pill to Swallow"
How One Project is Putting a Dent in One of Healthcare's Toughest Problems
Join Vickie Kamataris, RN and Senior Healthcare Consultant with NOVACES, for a case study presentation of how one hospital has learned to operate with a new understanding of medication reconciliation. The results have been remarkable and Vickie will share key findings of her project including:
- the most critical (and surprising) causes of medication reconciliation errors
- which types of solutions work, and which solutions did not
- some approaches to pilot and implement such large, enterprise-wide changes
In the first improvement pilot, although the census was lower than expected, there was not a single error. Now, the improvements have been fully implemented and Vickie will walk you through how the team did it and how one innovative solution enabled the team to generate $1.3 million in new revenue to pay for all the changes.
Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT