Network Updates

Using PCQN data to drive quality improvement, PCQN members are looking at pain management for their first QI project. QI activities include monthly conference calls to promote a coordinated, mentored QI project. Calls topics thus far include:

·         Choosing a topic and outcomes

·         Teaching about QI

·         Fishbone brainstorm

·         Process mapping

Additionally, an in-person QI workshop was held during the Spring 2014 conference and QI reports are provided to each participating team every month.  If you’d like to join us, let us know!

Congratulation to Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula CHOMP on achieving Joint Commission advanced certification! After an extensive onsite review in October, CHOMP was awarded as the 4th inpatient program in California to be recognized for their exceptional patient and family-centered care.

Last year the UCSF fellows took on a QI project using the UCSF PCQN data and won 1st place in the UCSF Medical Center Quality Improvement Recognition. You can check out their poster under Palliative Care resources under SHM Poster HIP Pain Improvement Project or by clicking here.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the PCQN Fall Conference in Orange County! As always it was a pleasure to welcome new members and to reinvigorate our mission!