DUBLIN, Ohio, July 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The 13 winners
of the first multi-year E3 Patient Safety Grants from Cardinal
Health Foundation are striving to improve health outcomes for
high-risk patients more quickly than the industry norm.
"Cardinal Health Foundation has committed two- to three-year
grants totaling nearly $2 million to
help organizations improve the effectiveness, efficiency and
excellence of patient care," said Dianne
Radigan, vice president of Community Relations at Cardinal
Health.
Each organization will focus on engaging patients and/or their
caregivers in self-care, and improving medication safety use for
patients during transitions of care, such as transition from the
hospital to the home.
As they develop their programs, recipients also will participate
in a learning collaborative facilitated by the Alliance for
Integrated Medication Management (AIMM), which is designed to help
organizations more quickly implement evidence-based practices.
The multi-year learning collaborative will focus on
transformational leadership, quality improvement and patient
engagement. AIMM coaches will provide training and guide grantees
through an accelerated quality improvement process that will enable
them to leverage their work and achieve more significant
results.
AIMM's Executive Director Todd
Sorensen, PharmD, said, "The collaborative is designed to
facilitate and support practice transformation under an accelerated
timeframe. Grant recipients will learn from each other and
accomplish more than they can on their own."
Since 2008, through its E3 Patient Safety Grant Program, the Cardinal Health Foundation
has invested $16 million to hundreds
of healthcare organizations across the country. "We support a wide
array of patient safety work, but the focus is always on
accelerating the rate of change with two goals: improved patient
outcomes and reduced healthcare costs," Radigan said.
Because of the complexities in healthcare and healthcare
systems, it takes an average of 17 years for evidence-based
practices to be fully implemented into healthcare practices,
according to The National Institutes of Health.
"Within a year or two, our past grantees are affecting change,
eliminating errors and creating lasting improvement," Radigan said.
"They are reducing readmissions to hospitals, reducing
lengths-of-stay and, most importantly, saving lives."
2016 E3 Grant Recipients
- Boston Children's Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts): Optimizing
Medication Safety for Children with Medical Complexity at Hospital
Discharge
- Community Health Center of the Black Hills (Rapid City, South Dakota): Improving
Patient Safety through Medication Adherence
- Dignity Health-Northridge Hospital (Northridge, California): Coordinating
Chronic Disease Transitional Care
- Home Health VNA (Lawrence,
Massachusetts): Building a Multi-Dimensional Approach to
COPD Management for Patients Admitted to Home Health Care
- Minnesota Hospital Association (St. Paul, Minnesota): Creating a Universal
Protocol for Hospital Discharge to Reduce Medication-Related
Readmissions and Adverse Events
- Mountain Area Health Education Center (Asheville, North Carolina): Creating a
Regional Pediatric Care Collaborative for Children with
Asthma
- National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics
(Alexandria, Virginia):
Implementing the Ohio Care Message Project
- Nemours Children's Health System (Wilmington, Delaware): Adding a
Hospital-based Pharmacist to Patient Navigation Team to Improve
Pediatric Discharge
- Royal Oaks Hospital (Windsor,
Missouri): Optimizing Medication Safety for Children with
Medical Complexity at Hospital Discharge
- Senior Services of Southeastern
Virginia (Norfolk,
Virginia): Hampton Roads Care Transitions Program:
Expanding Medication Management and Care Transitions for
Seniors
- University of Maryland School of
Pharmacy (Baltimore,
Maryland): Using e-Health to Improve Transitions of
Care
- Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle, Washington): Partnering with
Pharmacists to Increase Medication Safety for Heart Failure
Patients across the Continuum of Care
- Wilkes University in
collaboration with Commonwealth Health-Moses Taylor Hospital and
Commonwealth Health-Regional Hospital (Wilkes-Barr, Pennsylvania): Providing Pharmacy
Service at Discharge for Patients with Multiple Chronic
Diseases
For more information on Cardinal Health Foundation's E3 Grant
Program, visit http://cardinalhealth.com/patientsafetygrants.
About the Cardinal Health Foundation
The Cardinal
Health Foundation supports local, national and international
programs that improve health care efficiency, effectiveness and
excellence and the overall wellness of the communities where
Cardinal Health's (NYSE:CAH) nearly 37,000 employees live and work.
The Cardinal Health Foundation also offers grants to encourage
community service among its employees and works through
international agencies to donate much-needed medical supplies and
funding to those who need them in times of disaster; because
Cardinal Health is #AllInForGood. To learn more, visit
www.CardinalHealth.com/community and visit the Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/CardinalHealthFoundation.
About the Alliance for Integrated Medication
Management
The Alliance for Integrated Medication Management
(AIMM) is a non-profit organization working to support wide-spread
adoption of team-based medication management services into the care
of high-risk, high-cost patients suffering from multiple chronic
health conditions. AIMM partners with healthcare providers, schools
of pharmacy, payers, and other stakeholders to drive change in our
health care system from the ground up by creating accountability
for patient safety and health, improving quality of care, and
championing new payment models to coordinate care for high-risk and
complex patients who can benefit from a comprehensive medication
management approach.
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