This webinar is the third in a series of four webinars focused on strategies for effective glycemic control for inpatients. The series is intended to provide a forum to exchange information on best practices and innovations related to insulin therapy. Principles of implementing basal bolus insulin regimens will be discussed, including concepts that may be integrated into hospitals' basal-bolus insulin protocols and order sets. Dr. Greg Maynard, Clinical Professor of Medicine and Director of the University of California San Diego Center for Innovation and Improvement Science, and Senior Vice President of the Society of Hospital Medicine’s Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement, will join this call to discuss hypoglycemia management and prevention strategies, as well as benefits and recommendations for measurement and continuous monitoring.

This webinar is the last in a series of four webinars focused on strategies for effective glycemic control for inpatients. During this session a brief recap of best practices and innovations related to insulin therapy will be provided. Then, the floor will be open for interactive audience questions, answers and discussion with Greg Maynard, M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine and Director of the University of California San Diego Center for Innovation and Improvement Science and Kristi Kulasa, M.D., Endocrinologist at University of California San Diego Medical Center. Dr. Maynard and Dr. Kulasa will provide answers to some of the most frequently asked questions related to hypoglycemia management and prevention strategies, as well as measurement and continuous monitoring.

In preparation for the webinar, the NYSPFP asks that you forward your questions about effective glycemic control t

On March 20, NYSPFP will host an educational webinar featuring hospitals in New York State that have successfully implemented interventions to reduce harm to the surgical patient in the pre, intra and post-operative period. During this webinar, members of the multidisciplinary team(s) responsible for implementing these interventions will share their experiences and how they reduced common complications affecting surgical patients including surgical site infections, post-operative venous thromboembolism and post-operative sepsis.

This NYSPQC/NYSPFP Obstetrical Improvement Project educational webconference is the second session in a two-part series to introduce two new focus areas of the project: maternal hemorrhage and pre-eclampsia. During this webinar, NYSPFP/NYSPQC staff will provide an overview of the educational programming and measurement strategy related to pre-eclampsia.

This session is the fourth in a series of eight educational web conferences focused on the 2014 Readmission Reduction Pilot Project. NYSPFP staff will discuss strategies for evaluating hospital’s Phase 1 pilot activities and provide a detailed overview of Phase 2 activities which includes key interventions for readmission risk mitigation during the hospital stay. The session will also include a hospital presentation on specific approaches to engaging a multidisciplinary clinical team in their readmission reduction efforts to ensure that roles, responsibility and accountability are established for every patient on the pilot unit who are identified as being at risk for readmission. NYSPFP encourages all hospitals, even those not participating in the readmission reduction pilot project, to join the web conference.

On April 2, NYSPFP will introduce the Advanced Colon Bundle, designed to help hospitals accelerate reductions in colorectal surgical site infections (SSI). Robert Cima, MD, Professor of Surgery and Consultant at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, will share his hospital’s experience with bundles, how best practices were hardwired into the surgical workflow, and subsequent reductions achieved in colorectal SSI. Following this webinar, NYSPFP will host regional in-person conferences featuring Dr. Cima to provide guidance on how to operationalize the bundle and improvement interventions.