ICU Quality Improvement Initiatives
Our experts audit the intensive care units and provide hospital administrations with step by step guide towards achieving high standard and cost effective ICU care. We coach the hospitals and healthcare institutions on making the necessary contacts, deciding on the number of staff privileges and most importantly the best devices and resources to use in order to implement highest standard of care in the timeliest fashion to critically ill patients.
As one of the stages towards improving intensive care units, our experts audit the ICU protocols including sepsis and hypothermia protocols and help form internal committees to implement the protocols according to The Joint Commission (JCAHO) accreditation standards. Similarly, our experts can coach start of The Joint Commission approved stroke programs (neurocritical program) by coaching the hospitals in equipment requirements for neuromonitoring, hiring or training neuro-ICU staff and TPN initiation.
Here is a highlight of our ICU quality improvement initiatives:
- Implementing 24/7 intensivist program.
- Implementing Tele ICU and resource management.
- Post-cardiac arrest hypothermia protocol implementation.
- Sepsis protocol implementation.
- Implementation of Code Sepsis.
- Neurocritical care program/stroke protocol implementation.
Hospice and Palliative Care Initiatives
Timely initiation of palliative care or hospice measures prevents the end stage terminal patients to be rushed to hospitals and undergo ineffective invasive procedures. Being viewed as an essential step towards cost effective health care, palliative care measures help hospitals save significant budget while increasing patient satisfaction by providing comfort and emotional support for the terminally ill and their family members. Our team of palliative care and hospice experts help health care institutions initiate the following services:
- Initiating inpatient palliative care service
- Initiating outpatient/home health palliative care service
- Initiating ICU/palliative care collaborative service
- Initiating oncology/palliative care collaborative service