Five Health Systems Selected for National Institutional Impact VTE Mentored Quality Initiative
7/27/2010
ASHP Advantage has selected five health systems to participate in a national Institutional Impact VTE Mentored Quality Initiative. The sites were selected through a competitive application process, and applicants were required to assemble a multidisciplinary team and garner support from senior leadership to conduct a VTE quality improvement project at their facilities.
Physician-pharmacist faculty teams with expertise in VTE prevention and quality improvement will visit selected health systems August through October to evaluate VTE prevention practices and provide specific recommendations to enable the participants to meet their quality improvement goals. Following the visit, participants and their multidisciplinary teams will conduct a VTE quality improvement project and report changes in the care of patients at risk of VTE. The selected participants are as follows: Baylor Medical Center at Waxahachie
Waxahachie, Texas
Team Leader: Donna Drain, Pharm.D. Memorial Hospital
South Bend, Indiana
Team Leader: Eli Opacich, Pharm.D. Memorial Regional Hospital
Hollywood, Florida
Team Leader: Thomas Macaluso, M.D. Sharp Grossmont Hospital
La Mesa, California
Team Leader: Electa Stern, Pharm.D. West Virginia University Hospitals
Morgantown, West Virginia
Team Leader: Frank Briggs, Pharm.D. The faculty mentors are as follows: Stuart T. Haines, Pharm.D., BCPS, FCCP, FASHP, FAPhA
West Palm Beach VA Medical Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, Maryland Gregory A. Maynard, M.D., M.S., FHM
University of California - San Diego, California Jordan C. Messler, M.D., FHM
Morton Plant Hospital
Clearwater, Florida Zachary A. Stacy, Pharm.D., BCPS
St. Luke’s Hospital, Chesterfield, Missouri
St. Louis College of Pharmacy, St. Louis, Missouri The Institutional Impact VTE Mentored Quality Initiative is part of a series of interprofessional activities designed to increase the rate of thromboprophylaxis in high-risk populations and promote the safe use of anticoagulation therapies. Featured educational activities include on demand, online home study activities, live interactive webinars, and regional, full-day workshops with a special emphasis on interactive, team-based learning. This initiative is supported by an educational grant from Ortho-McNeil, Division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., administered by Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC. For more information about this educational initiative, visit www.StopVTE.org. About ASHP Advantage Launched in 1995, ASHP Advantage specializes in developing customized educational activities to address identified educational gaps. As a division of ASHP, ASHP Advantage staff members stay apprised of key issues and trends shaping pharmacy practice and health care today. With access to the vast resources of ASHP and its membership, ASHP Advantage designs quality programs and projects for health care professionals. For more information about the services of ASHP Advantage, visit www.ashpadvantage.com. About ASHP For more than 60 years, ASHP has helped pharmacists who practice in hospitals and health systems improve medication use and enhance patient safety. The Society’s 35,000 members include pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who practice in inpatient, outpatient, home-care, and long-term-care settings, as well as pharmacy students. For more information about the wide array of ASHP activities and the many ways in which pharmacists help people make the best use of medicines, visit ASHP’s Web site, www.ashp.org, or its consumer Web site, www.SafeMedication.com. -END
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