NHPCO NewsLine Winter 2021 - 34

Short
Takes
Conference Posters from IDC21
NHPCO facilitated a virtual poster session that was part of the 2021
Interdisciplinary Conference. The poster session had not been a part of NHPCO
conferences for several years and in collaboration with our Quality Connections
program, a virtual poster session was held as part of IDC21 to showcase the
great work of hospice and palliative care organizations. The focus was Quality & Performance Improvement (PI) with four
categories: hospice clinical PI; hospice operations PI; palliative care clinical PI; and palliative care operations PI.
Many outstanding submissions were submitted and a review panel, comprised of members from NHPCO's Quality &
Standards committee, selected the following winning poster presentations from each of the four categories.
Hospice Clinical Category:
Meaningful and Compliant Care
Planning
Serenity Hospice and Home,
Oregon, IL
To improve quality of care for
patients, Serenity addressed plan
of care issues by establishing a
performance improvement project that increased the
number of developed, individualized, and updated care
plans. View the poster.
Hospice Operations Category:
Increasing Length of Stay
Awareness and Enhancing
Discharge Planning in Hospice
Care Centers
Bluegrass Care Navigators,
Lexington, KY
There is risk to hospice programs for not providing all
levels of care and there is risk for having long lengths of
stay, including in a GIP setting. A Performance
Improvement Project (PIP) was formed to address
discharge planning in GIP locations. View the poster.
Palliative Care Clinical Category:
Osteopathic Manipulative
Treatment - Impact and Patient
Perception When Added to
Standard Palliative Intervention
Mayo Clinic Health System,
Mankato, MN
The purpose of this project was to evaluate symptom
management outcomes of patients on the inpatient palliative
service. Staff examined standard palliative intervention
outcomes versus outcomes when OMT was added to the
standard of care. Patient perception of effectiveness of
adjunct OMT was also evaluated. View the poster.
Palliative Care Operations Category:
ACP Outreach to the Chinese
Community
The Chinese American Coalition
for Compassionate Care (CACCC),
Shingle Springs, CA
CACCC is the nation's first coalition dedicated to
improving EOL care for Chinese Americans in the United
States, as well as the people of Taiwan and China. CACCC
trained facilitators conduct online EOL discussions in
Chinese using different resources in different settings.
View the poster.
NHPCO congratulates the poster winners and submitters for their dedication to moving quality
forward to ultimately ensure the best possible experience for patients and their family. All IDC virtual
conference posters can be viewed in the Quality Connections section of the NHPCO website.
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