🟠 CHNC 2023 COVERAGE - Dr. Briana Bertoni CHNC inaugural QI Fellow and Aaron Rose QI Program Manager

Send us Fan MailCurious about how quality improvement projects come to life within a healthcare setting? Join us and our distinguished guests from CHNC, Dr. Brianna Bertoni and Aaron Rose. They pull back the curtain on the rigorous project selection process, sharing the meticulous steps from calls for projects to evaluation and scoring. Dr. Rose also gives a personal account of his journey to becoming a CIQI fellow, offering invaluable insights into the support he received from his institution. In part two, we navigate the fascinating world of Project Home, an initiative aimed at upping the rates of maternal and parental breastfeeding at discharge. With the University of Pittsburgh High playing a critical role in supporting the project, Dr. Bartoni and Aaron Rose discuss how metrics are designed and implemented, highlighting the importance of staff education. They underscore the need to focus on improvement over perfection and the crucial understanding of the different levels at which sites join the collaborative. Plus, they give us an exclusive peek into their bi-monthly huddle calls, a space for open discussions and sharing local struggles. This episode is loaded with takeaways for anyone interested in quality improvement initiatives. Support the showAs always, feel free to send us questions, comments, or suggestions to our email: [email protected]. You can also contact the show through Instagram or Twitter, @nicupodcast. Or contact Ben and Daphna directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below.Enjoy!