PQCNC clOUDi - TODAY - Experience Based Co-Design

July 7, 2021

Dear Team clOUDi,

We are now 6 weeks away from our next clOUDi Learning Session. This time together will be time to share the work we have been doing. This is why we meet. This is why we collaborate. We learn from each other. I am asking each team to consider the work you have done to date. What has worked? What has not worked? What are challenges? What are the successes? Every team has something to teach, every team has something to learn.

So how do you do this. We need each team to gather their thoughts and in a 5-10 minute video presentation describe any of the above elements. You can discuss how you have begun conversations about integrating a validated screening tool into your patient workflow. What has made it possible? What makes it difficult? How are you planning on capitalizing on your successes or confronting obstacles? Report on conversations related to the need for validated screening.

Include as many team members and their perspectives as you can. If that is not possible have a team leader tell us a bit about what is happening at your facility. Consider including patients and parents who are willing to speak to your efforts and care. This is how we learn. At a PQCNC learning session all are able to teach and we all are able to learn. Your experiences mean everything. We all need for you to share your efforts with us. This is not an easy initiative. This is a group of mothers and their babies who are at real risk for morbidity and mortality. We have great opportunity here but can only realize it if we decide we are in the game, with each other, and are willing to make the effort to support each other.

A 5-10 minute video. That is all we ask. We know well many of you are hard at work on this initiative, now tell us in 5 minutes what you are up to. Your presentations will drive the discussions we must have at Learning Session II on August 18th.

Make no excuses. Make it happen!

Marty

TODAY!

Beyond the Satisfaction Survey:

Patient Engagement to Improve Care Delivery for Perinatal Women with SUD

Join us Wednesday, July 7th, 12:00 – 1:00 pm for a lunchtime discussion with Julie Bosak, DrPH(c), CNM, MSN, who will share her experience and evidence-based strategies for meaningful patient engagement around perinatal substance abuse screening and response.

A growing body of research has demonstrated the potential of meaningful patient engagement to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and quality of health services delivery. Ms. Bosak will share her experiences with using experience-based co-design (EBCD) - a particularly promising patient engagement approach – to improve rural health care delivery for perinatal and parenting women with substance use disorder, and emerging findings from ongoing research in this area.

Julie Bosak has been a women’s health provider for over twenty years in a variety of settings, recently focused on rural health care delivery for perinatal and parenting women with substance use disorder. This has led to regional quality improvement efforts, state appointed task forces, and program development consulting. Focused most recently on working with Dartmouth Hitchcock’s perinatal SUD team and completing her dissertation on service co-design with women with SUD for a doctorate degree from Boston University School of Public Health. She is currently a research fellow on the implementation science core for the NIH/NIDA-funded Massachusetts HEALing communities study through Boston Medical Center.

clOUDi Learning Session 2

It’s coming!! clOUDi Learning Session 2 is coming! It is August 18th from 9-12. It is virtual. It will be our last forced virtual session. We are determined to make this a memorable event.

What will make it memorable? You telling us about how you and your team, under great duress, have made strides in working with women and babies dealing with the effects of substance use disorder. The substance use epidemic has risen to even more catastrophic levels as we have dealt with the challenges of Covid. Your efforts to screen women more effectively for substance use disorder and transition care to Eat Sleep and Console for infants at risk for withdrawal need to be shared.

Here is our ask. We would like each of our clOUDi teams to create a short video describing efforts made at your hospital to support the aims of the clOUDi initiative. It is our hope in these videos teams might report on successes of interventions as well as challenges encountered. This video need be no more than 5-10 minutes. Include as many team members and their perspectives as you can. Consider including patients and parents who are willing to speak to your efforts and care. This is how we learn. At a PQCNC learning session all are able to teach and we all are able to learn. Your experiences mean everything. Please share them with us.

We will display videos during our August 18th Learning Session. We will have opportunities for input from all and to discuss and identify what will undoubtedly be critical learning points.

Videos can be any format you like. If you have any questions on how to video, how to share, how to email, how to get your unique and invaluable expereince to us to share with the rest of clOUDi, the man with the plan is Keith Cochran at keith_cochran@unc.edu

Contact me!

Keith M Cochran

qiadvisor@pqcnc.org

984-974-7871

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