Division 2 Feedback

Attendees were asked:

What did you hear over the last day and a half that you need to implement at your program to ensure that you are providing world-changing quantity?

Below are the responses from Division 2:

  • Purpose of practice is quality not quantity
  • More face to face visits = engagement of IDT and increase of education piece at IDT = restructure IDT
  • Being a medical director is NOT a part time job
  • Better manage heart patients to reduce hospitalizations. Medical Directors can drive this.
  • Increase qualifications in namafives
  • Start the conversation in my office/clinic and not wait for the hospitalization
  • Empower and inspire my team
  • Emphasize the message
  • Interface with heart failure clinic
  • At Compassus – Quality is not just talk
  • Palliative Sedation
  • Covering narratives first, reduce distraction during IDT
  • Prognostic indicators, certificate, recertification
  • MD certification
  • Getting back to basics, moving metrics through, role play
  • The spirituality of medicine
  • Utilizing educational resources
  • Using colleagues as resource (MD to MD, and/or MDAC)
  • Engaging more in QAPI
  • Display metrics that need to be moved
  • More involvement with community
  • Do more face to face visits
  • Pray with family when invited
  • Utilize CME
  • Introduce all our recourses to patient/family to care for them
  • Bringing quality discussion into IDT
  • Reformat our IDT
  • Work on Palliative Care bridge to hospice
  • Change Medication practice
  • Will start monthly meeting with MD, ED, DCS, and DS
  • Get more involved in QAPI scores
  • Get prognostication tools to clinicians
  • Get more involved in Advanced Directive
  • Medical Director – Home visits
  • Need to educate EDs and MDs on how to get payment for visits
  • Know the data -> post it and discuss it
  • Listen to team to prevent revocations
  • Want outlines and/or PowerPoints of all medical sessions (Dr. Kelly answered how to access)
  • Medical Director Role in education of team
  • Listen
  • “I can help with that!”
  • Grow teamwork
  • Wants to help strengthen pathway to regional and divisional resource (i.e. leadership) to be better leaders
  • Would like case studies – successful and unsuccessful
  • More about team integration
  • MD doing more home visits
  • Inspired by “love”
  • Prognostication tools session
  • Palliative Sedation
  • Dr. Luz request more new Medical Director Orientations. CVP will work on
  • Utilize Medical Director Resources
  • Patient Competency in prescriptions and self determination