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).
Chronic Pain breakthrough collaborative
Chronic Pain Breakthrough Collaborative- Enrolling Now for Spring 2016
Pain is the most common reason patients seek health care in the United States. The mission of this 12-month collaborative is to achieve breakthrough improvement in person-centered, integrative care for patients with chronic pain.
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 complementary and integrative medicine.
The team is led by an expert faculty—including Adam Perlman, MD, MPH, of Duke Medicine—who guide and mentor participating organizations through the 12-month improvement process that will begin in the spring of 2016.
Program fees include all calls, onsite participation in Learning Sessions for up to five team members (excluding travel and accommodations), and individualized coaching sessions from faculty for the 12-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 hospice and palliative care. And that is the core of this Breakthrough Series Collaborative — a nine-month project convening 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.
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: The first learning session focuses on learning state of the art ideas, 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.