Sustainable Changes
When healthcare organizations expend scarce resources to improve their care, operational processes, and systems, unintended consequences can occur in other areas. This experience understandably leads to frustration. Lumetra Healthcare Solutions is committed to using our client’s resources wisely and providing solutions that last. And, we have the experienced staff to do it right the first time. We understand how to identify and implement lasting changes in clinical optimization, analytics, and Health Information Technology.
We have a long track record in advocating and practicing best practice initiatives to effect sustainable change.
We have worked collaboratively with the The Joint Commission, the National Quality Forum (NQF), and with hundreds of hospitals and nursing homes to effect lasting quality and patient care improvements for patients and healthcare consumers.
These programs included:
- Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) to reduce surgical infections
- Studies regarding medication safety in chronic conditions: Potentially Inappropriate Medications, Drug-to-Drugs Interactions, and Combined “Double Jeopardy” DDI-PIM risk exposure
- Chair, Strategic Alliance for Error Reduction (SAFER) California Healthcare Coalition, funded by the California Healthcare Foundation (CHCF), to move California’s patient safety agenda forward
- On behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, we conducted the Patient Safety Survey of California Rural and Critical Access Hospitals to assess 24 rural and critical access facilities for the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
