19 | Tips for Enhancing Access (Part 2) with Dr. Ernie Schuster

04/12/21 • 20 min

One Nail at a Time: Insights for Building Your Patient's Medical Home

Join us as we talk to Dr. Ernie Schuster about practical strategies that physicians and clinic teams can take to provide timely access to care and optimize the opportunity for continuity of care. Highlights include:

Specific strategies to balance your supply of appointments with the demand for them
The value of eliminating ‘backlog’ for providing just-in-time care
Using the medical home team to increase efficiency

(NOTE: To listen to Part 1, go to Episode 11: Tips for Enhancing Access with Dr. Janet Craig)

Resources:
HQCA Primary Healthcare Panel Reports

Specific strategies to balance your supply of appointments with the demand for them
The value of eliminating ‘backlog’ for providing just-in-time care
Using the medical home team to increase efficiency

(NOTE: To listen to Part 1, go to Episode 11: Tips for Enhancing Access with Dr. Janet Craig)

Resources:
HQCA Primary Healthcare Panel Reports

Previous Episode

18 | PMH in Action: A Tale of Continuity with Dr. Karen Seigel

Join us as Dr. Karen Seigel shares the work she and her team have been doing focused on care of patients with COPD. Some of the many highlights include:

How patients with low relational continuity (<50%) are 7 times more likely to be admitted to hospital compared to those who see their own physician at least 80% of the time.
How Dr. Seigel and her team used their EMR and HQCA reports to identify COPD patients at risk of exacerbation/hospitalization
How the team shares the workload and focuses on streamlining clinic processes for COPD care
Useful resources developed with the Health Quality Council of Alberta (HQCA)
Simple steps teams can take to improve relational continuity

Resources

HQCA Quality Exchange: https://hqca.ca/health-care-provider-resources/qe/primary-healthcare/

Next Episode

20 | Big News in Transitions of Care with Dr. Linda Slocombe

Join us as we learn about Alberta’s new ‘Home to Hospital to Home Transitions Guideline’. Dr. Slocombe explains the 6 components that together help patients successfully transition from home to hospital to home. She explains the roles of primary care and acute care, and the significant positive impact this guideline can have on continuity and the patient experience. Best of all, once established, it could mean less work for your practice!

Home to Hospital to Home Transitions Guideline
Information on CII/CPAR
Also, check out Podcasts #15 & #16 for more information about CII/CPAR.