Samueli Institute offers organizations the opportunity to participate in collaboratives, team based learning and change management programs designed to drive breakthrough improvement in a specific topic area. Topics for collaboratives vary but typically focus on healthcare practices where a gap has been identified between knowledge and practice. Samueli Institute developed the collaborative programs in partnership with a leader in promoting change in healthcare, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
UPCOMING COLLABORATIVES
What is a Collaborative?
A Breakthrough Series (BTS) Collaborative (depicted in this graphic) is a systematic approach to health care quality improvement in which organizations and providers test and measure practice innovations and then share their experiences in an effort to accelerate learning and widespread implementation of best practices. A collaborative involves organizations working together at a high level of intensity for a specific period of time, typically 6-18 months. During that time, the group participates in Learning Sessions, and maintains continual contact with each other and faculty members via selected site visits, conference calls/webinars, a listserv and a dedicated Web site.
Learning sessions are the major interactive events of the Collaborative. A collaborative learning session is where you contribute to other people’s work and they contribute to yours, and the collective impact is that much greater. The first learning session focuses on learning the state of the art ideas in home hospice and palliative care, best practice methodology and approaches, measurements, and creating a customized plan for breakthrough organizational improvement through rapid cycle tests of change.
Action periods are the time between learning sessions where implementation occurs. Teams work within their organization to perform rapid cycle testing and implement changes toward major breakthrough improvements. Although participants focus on their own organizations, they remain in continuous contact with the other collaborative participants and faculty. Teams share the results of their improvement efforts in monthly reports and also participate in shared learning through communication channels such as conference calls, e-mail discussion groups, webinars, and a web-based data-sharing platform, the Extranet. Participation in action periods is not limited to those who attend the learning sessions, but includes all other organizational team members and supporters.
The second learning session explores results among the participants, and participants will learn how top-performers achieved their outcomes.
Teams will then focus on additional rapid-cycle tests of change during the second action period and will convene at a third learning session to share what has been learned, and to create a plan for organizational spread with the successful changes that were made.
The fluidity of a collaborative contributes to how fast we can make change that matters, and helps us ensure we are focusing on what has the greatest likelihood of success.
A collaborative is not just a training program; it is a change management and process improvement initiative that includes team learning. We are looking for participating organizations to build their own capacity for continuous improvement and spreading best practices from one site to many.
Chronic Pain Collaborative
Pain is the most common reason patients seek health care in the United States. The mission of this nine-month collaborative is to achieve breakthrough improvement in person-centered, integrative care for patients with chronic pain.
Download the prospectus for this collaborative.
View the list of faculty.
Who Should Attend?
Pain practices within health care organizations that desire to offer a more integrative approach to pain management and are willing to optimize the level of integration of primary care and CIM.
Program fees include all calls, onsite participation in Learning Sessions for up to 5 team members (excluding travel and accommodations), and individualized coaching sessions from faculty for the 8-month collaborative. Additional information can be found in the Letter of Intent.
Hospice and Palliative Care Collaborative
By focusing on healing-oriented practices in mindfully created healing environments, we seek to learn what works and what doesn’t for both patients and lay caregivers in home hospice and palliative care. And that is the core of this Breakthrough Series Collaborative — a nine-month project convening home hospice and palliative care organizations that choose to be at the forefront of change, discover ways to relieve human suffering, implement those discoveries on a real-time basis and report their efficacies so others can follow suit.