Home Therapies & Transplant
Treatment Options
Quality Improvement Activities (QIAs)
For questions or technical assistance, please contact:
Home Therapies Lead:
Anna Bennett
Quality Improvement Coordinator

Transplant Lead:
Jeanine Pilgrim, BSHSM
Quality Improvement Director

Project Support Coordinator:
John Cocchieri
(516) 209-5515
ACTION REQUIRED:
QIA Forms Review QIA Checklists here:
Transplant QIA PDF
HT QIA   PDF
Complete any overdue reporting by August 31, 2018
RESOURCES:

Network Resources:

Transplant Resources webpage
Home Therapies Resources Webpage

 

Stakeholder Links:
Steps Overview
Transplant Steps:
  1. Suitability for referral to transplant center
  2. Interest in transplantation
  3. Referral call to transplant center
  4. First visit to transplant center
  5. Transplant center work up
  6. Successful transplant candidate
  7. On waiting or evaluate living donor
Home Therapy Steps:
  1. Patient interest in home dialysis
  2. Educational session to determine the patient's preference of home modality
  3. Patient suitability for home modality determined by a nephrologist with expertise in home dialysis therapy
  4. Assessment for appropriate access placement
  5. Placement of appropriate access
  6. Patient accepted for home modality training
  7. Patient begins home modality training
August 2018 Updates
 
To: All Home Therapies QIA and Transplant QIA Facility Staff, Patient SMES and Stakeholders
Mid Point Webinar Recording Available:
Thank you to all facility staff that joined us on the July 26, 2018 Mid-Point Best Practice Review Webinar. Please use these links to access the Slides, and Recording. If your facility missed the webinar, please view the slides/recording and complete this 10 question post-test to fulfill the attendance requirement.

Featuring "Customer Focus" Best Practices:
The highlight of the webinar was reviewing Education Station Best Practices. These best practices showcased Customer Focus at it's best.  Creative, eye catching, easy to understand messaging about treatment options: Transplant and Home Therapies.  After reviewing all 90 submissions, it was obvious how much work has been put into these QIAs.

To Order Printed QIA Materials:
 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NW2QIAResources
 
July Feedback Highlights
"Education has empowered patients.  If they were deemed not a candidate, they will ask why"
 
Average hours spent monthly on QIA Interventions:
Transplant QIA:  8 hours
Home Therapies QIA: 7 Hours

Did your facility have an education station/visual display?
21% YES

Education Station patient feedback:
Positive 21%
Neutral 11%
Negative ZERO
August Reporting
QIA Review and Reconciliation
The month of August is for QIA reconciliation and review.
Use these checklists:
  • Home Therapies QIA Checklist PDF
  • Transplant QIA  Checklist PDF
To review your facility's QIA activities and co mplete ALL outstanding QIA activities and forms by August 31, 2018 .

(Please note that independent facilities will be asked to send Seven Step data via a separate feedback form, and transplant QIA facilities will be asked to complete their exclusion lists via smartsheet)
August National LAN Calls (Free CE)
August 14, 2018 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Home Therapies QIA ESRD NCC LAN Call

Event Speaker: Dori Schatell, MS,
Executive Director Medical Education Institute
Presentation Objectives:
  •  Outline the role of emotions in patient modality choice.
  • Explain why "What Matters to You?" is a vital question to ask patients.
  • Describe how to use the MATCH-D and My Life, My Dialysis Choice decision aid.
To Register go to: https://cc.readytalk.com/r/l4ot80x6ppfy&eom    
Enter information on registration form
Click REGISTER NOW button at bottom of page
August 21, 2018 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Transplant QIA ESRD NCC LAN Call
Event Speaker: TBA
Presentation Objectives: TBA
To Register Go to: https://cc.readytalk.com/r/91ae7xha61ep&eom  
Enter information on registration form
Click REGISTER NOW button at bottom of page
National LAN Call Recordings
National ESRD NCC LAN Webinar Highlights:

Transplant:
June 19, 2018 Transplant from the Clinic's Perspective
*   Learn importance of regularly monitoring patients and their transplant status.
*   Identify barriers to transplant.
*   Understand the importance of utilization and coordination with the Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) and community resources to facilitate a Successful transplant process.

Home Therapies:
June 12, 2018 Care Innovation "A Transitional Care Unit"

*   Identify what is happening to patients in the first year of dialysis in the United States.
*   Educate attendees about the concept of a transitional care unit.
*   Highlight how to set up a transitional care unit.
Recording:
 
Project Goals
Transplant QIA: Participating facilities shall demonstrate a 10% point increase in patients who are on a transplant waitlist by October 2018.

Home Therapies QIA:  Participating facilities shall demonstrate a 10% point increase in patients who are training for Home Therapies (HHD or PD) by October 2018.

We Want to Hear from YOU!
Please contact the qualityimprovement@nw2.esrd.net if you have questions, comments, or specific barriers that you would like to address.  Let us know if you have identified any best practices that you would like to share with the community.