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It Pays to Share Your Schedules
  • Sharing scheduling data with collaborative departments
  • Setting boundaries to respect the other department’s needs and processes, like avoiding late-day appointments
  • Writing it down and gettng consensus so everyone can follow the procedure

What can your team do to work collaboratively with a sister department to improve the patient experience? 

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Corralling Cancer With Coughs and Sneezes—Allergy Team Helps Screen for Cancer

  • Making a joint commitment that when there is a KP HealthConnect® notification that a patient is due for a health screening, team members follow up by offering to schedule the patient for the screening or asking the necessary questions to fill in missing information in the patient’s medical record
  • Creating a script to help staff members talk to patients about updating their health needs and posting laminated cards on computers to serve as reminders
  • Reporting the weekly screening numbers to staff members so they can track their progress and recognize where they missed opp

Cooperation Among Departments Helps Women Get Needed Screenings

  • Checking HealthConnect when female health plan members come in for flu shots
  • Working cooperatively among different departments to ensure patients get preventive screenings
  • Building time into clinic schedules for same-day appointments

What can your team do to collaborate with other departments and help make the care experience even better for our members and patients?  What else could your team do to make KP the best place to work and receive care?

 

How a Flu Shot Can Help Catch Cancer

Region
Colorado
Keywords
Lakewood Medical Office
Colorado
mammogram
flu shots
Peter Chiappa
Kenya Martinez
Medical Imaging
flu clinic
Topic
Preventive Care
Quality
Request Number
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Long Teaser

Don’t be surprised to have your medical record checked when you walk in for a flu shot at Lakewood Medical Office in Denver, Colorado. Medical Imagining and the Flu Clinic teams worked together to identify patients who needed a mammogram.

Communicator (reporters)
Jennifer Gladwell
Editor (if known, reporters)
Tyra Ferlatte
Video Media (reporters)
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Kaiser Permanente members in Colorado got a little extra care and attention last year when they came for their flu shots at the Lakewood Medical Office. Medical Imagining and the Flu Clinic teams worked together to identify patients who needed a mammogram.

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Postcard: Quality: Colorado Imaging and Flu Clinic

Submitted by Beverly White on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 16:30
Region
Colorado
Tool Type
Postcards
Format
PDF
Keywords
Lakewood
May/June 2015 Bulletin Board Packet
flu clinic
Topics
Quality
Content Section
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This postcard, which appears in the May/June 2015 Bulletin Board Packet, features a Colorado team that worked with its flu clinic colleagues to get more members in for mammography screenings.

Non-LMP
Tyra Ferlatte
Tool landing page copy (reporters)
Postcard: Quality_Colorodo Imaging and Flu Clinic

Format:
PDF

Size:
8.5” x 11”

Intended audience:
Frontline employees, managers and physicians

Best used:
This collaboration between an imaging UBT and its flu clinic colleagues put members due for a mammography screening front and center. Post on bulletin boards, in break rooms and in other staff areas.

Share the PPT.

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PPT: Imaging and Flu Clinic Staff Increase Mammography Screenings

Submitted by Beverly White on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 12:12
Region
Colorado
Tool Type
PowerPoints
Format
PPT
Keywords
Lakewood
May/June 2015 Bulletin Board Packet
flu clinic
Topics
Quality
Role
Frontline Workers
UBT Consultants & UPRs
ppt_Imaging_and_flu_clinic_staff_increase_mammography_screenings

This PowerPoint slide from the May/June 2015 Bulletin Board Packet features a Colorado Medical Imaging UBT at Lakewood Medical Center that worked with its flu clinic colleagues to bring attention to a member who was due for a mammography screening.

Non-LMP
Tool landing page copy (reporters)
PPT: Service - Primary Care UBT Gives Gift of Time

Format:
PPT

Size:
1 Slide

Intended audience:
LMP employees, UBT consultants, improvement advisers

Best used:
This PowerPoint features a Colorado Medical Imaging UBT at Lakewood Medical Center that worked with its flu clinic colleagues to bring attention to members who were due for a mammography screening. Use in presentations to show some of the methods used and the measurable results being achieved by unit-based teams across Kaiser Permanente. 

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PPT: Communication Improves Mammogram Rates

Submitted by Kellie Applen on Mon, 01/07/2013 - 19:46
Region
Mid-Atlantic States
Tool Type
PowerPoints
Format
PPT
Keywords
Mid-Atlantic States
Maryland
Shady Grove Medical Center
Rockville
mammogram rates
Topics
Preventive Care
Quality
Role
Frontline Workers
UBT Consultants & UPRs
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This PowerPoint slide, from the January/February 2013 Bulletin Board Packet, features a Maryland team that improved mammogram rates through better communication.

Non-LMP
Tool landing page copy (reporters)
PPT: Communication Improves Mammogram Rates

Format:
PPT

Size:
1 Slide

Intended audience:
LMP employees, UBT consultants, improvement advisers

Best used: 
This PowerPoint slide features a Maryland team that improved mammogram rates through better communication. Use in presentations to show some of the methods used and the measurable results being achieved by unit-based teams across Kaiser Permanente. 

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Poster: Improving Mammogram Rates

Submitted by Kellie Applen on Mon, 01/07/2013 - 19:41
Region
Mid-Atlantic States
Tool Type
Posters
Format
PDF
Keywords
adult medicine
Maryland
Shady Grove Medical Center
Rockville
Topics
Preventive Care
Quality
Content Section
Postcards to Posters
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lmpartnership.org
bulletin board packet
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This poster, which appears in the January/February 2013 Bulletin Board Packet, highlights a Maryland team that improved its mammogram screening rate.

Non-LMP
Tyra Ferlatte
Tool landing page copy (reporters)
Poster: Communication Improves Mammogram Rates

Format:
PDF

Size:
8.5” x 11”

Intended audience:
Frontline employees, managers and physicians

Best used:
Post on bulletin boards, in break rooms and other staff areas to share with your team how effective communication keeps the patient at the center of our work.

 

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