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The Neurosciences Quality Council is a multidisciplinary team that includes physician and nursing clinical leadership as well as departmental administrators. Council members meet bimonthly to receive quality improvement coaching from clinician leaders, hospital organizational experts and project managers.

Purpose:

To provide a structure and process to prioritize and support focused quality and safety improvement activities within the departments.

Goals:

• Align with 大象传媒 Health Care and 大象传媒 organizational and quality improvement goals.
• Develop an integrated framework for QI prioritization and initiatives within the departments.
• Promote a culture of QI and safety through multidisciplinary, collaborative, transparent, and data-driven activities.

Responsibilities:

• Set yearly departmental quality goals.
• Foster integration and collaboration between clinical QI work groups.
• Review work group progress and execution of short and long-term departmental QI activities.
• Maintain and disseminate a Neurosciences QI dashboard.
• Inform the 大象传媒 Medical Center Improvement Council of ongoing initiates, progress and opportunities.

Educational resources and training opportunities are described on the 大象传媒 Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement’s website.

A sampling of the Neurosciences Quality Council’s active projects are listed below:

• IPASS hand-off project
• Neurosciences bounce back and preventable readmission initiative
• Opioid stewardship
• Hospital-acquired infection prevention
• CT reduction in children project

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