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| Grantee |
Amount |
Date |
 | Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
Predictive Model for Reducing Readmissions at Kaiser Permanente Northern California Hospitals | $987,024 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $987,024 | Nov. 2012 |
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Purpose
The purpose of this grant to Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, is to support the development of a predictive model for hospital readmissions. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $226,000 | Jul. 2012 |
Purpose
To support the evaluation of the implementation of an ICU clinical bundle intervention. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $1,584,080 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of testing a predictive model for early deterioration of impending physiologic deterioration (EDIP) of hospitalized patients and developing an electronic early warning system for implementing the EDIP model. The predictive model and early warning system will be piloted at Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, with the goal of reducing unplanned transfers to the ICU and ICU mortality. | | Center for Quality Systems Improvement
Hospital Readmissions Learning Community | $896,720 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 23 mo. | $896,720 | Nov. 2012 |
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Purpose
The purpose of this grant is to continue a successful transitions of care learning collaborative in which Northern California hospitals and their outpatient partners (physician practices, home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, and others) share best practices with the common goals of improving the quality of transition from hospital to home and reducing unnecessary hospital readmissions. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 21 mo. | $1,357,000 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Center for Quality Systems Improvement (CQSI) to offer two targeted clinical impact interest groups, quality improvement education, and on-site support to hospitals working on improving patient outcomes. The grant outcomes are the achievement of evidence-based patient safety and quality improvement targets by hospitals participating in the two clinical impact interest groups, as well as the enhancement of clinical improvement leadership skills for at least 350 healthcare providers. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 41 mo. | $959,000 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of creating a Readmissions Learning Community in which hospitals and their outpatient provider partners confirm and share evidence-based practices shown to reduce hospital readmissions. The outputs of the grant include participation by at least 50% of the 5-county San Francisco Bay Area hospitals, and the collaborative development of detailed plans to implement evidence-based practices, each designed to reduce 30- and 90-day hospital readmission rates by at least 30% by December 31, 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $350,000 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
For research in two to three San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) hospitals on the impact of high patient volume days on the increased likelihood of preventable patient harm. The research will identify high patient volume points at which patient harm is significantly more likely to occur. Following identification of these points, an actionable program for SFBA hospitals will be developed and piloted with the goal of reducing preventable harm during high volume days in at least three SFBA hospitals. | | St. Rose Hospital Foundation
Implementation of Project RED | $578,077 | Sep. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 47 mo. | $578,077 | Sep. 2012 |
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Purpose
The purpose of this grant to St. Rose Hospital is in support of work to achieve and sustain a 30% reduction in 30-day readmission rates and a 15% reduction in 90-day readmission rates for patients discharged from St. Rose Hospital. | | El Camino Hospital Foundation
Improving Transitions of Care for High Risk Patients | $515,984 | Jul. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 51 mo. | $515,984 | Jul. 2012 |
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Purpose
In support of the implementation of a transitional care program for patients at high risk of hospital readmission. The goal of the program is to achieve and sustain a 30% reduction in the 30-day and a 15% reduction in the 90-day all-cause readmission rates for these high risk patients. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $75,000 | Jun. 2005 |
Purpose
El Camino Hospital Foundation is using this grant to implement the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100K Lives Campaign, a national initiative to implement six scientifically-based clinical interventions that address leading sources of mortality and complications within hospitals. Outcomes include implementation of Campaign interventions, participation in a Regional Hospital Collaborative on Patient Safety, and communication of aggregate mortality data to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. | | Stanford University, School of Medicine
Heart Failure Transitions of Care Program | $601,424 | Jul. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 42 mo. | $601,424 | Jul. 2012 |
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Purpose
In support of the implementation of a transitional care program at Stanford Hospital and Clinics for heart failure patients. The goal of the program will be to achieve and sustain a 30% reduction in the 30-day and a 15% reduction in 90-day all cause readmission rates for patients with heart failure. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $249,745 | Jun. 2012 |
Purpose
In support of a study of how eHealth technology could be used to engage and meet the needs of patients and caregivers who are managing multiple chronic conditions. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 4 mo. | $140,000 | Feb. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to Stanford University, School of Medicine supports the identification and prioritization of specific healthcare quality opportunities for care delivery model redesign, leading to improved quality of care through implementation of these new models. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 41 mo. | $2,446,138 | Sep. 2010 |
Purpose
To investigate how corals resist stress through development of a powerful sea anemone model system and related experiments with corals, sea anemones and the symbiotic algae that reside in them. The funding will be used to enhance researchers' abilities to predict coral resilience by identifying early, reliable signals that result from changing environmental conditions. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 33 mo. | $1,077,000 | Nov. 2009 |
Purpose
For the development and rollout of an intensive patient safety intervention incorporating frequent, unit-based simulation team training on four medical-surgical units at Stanford Hospital & Clinics. This program will lead to three outcomes: reduction in the incidence rate of at least one hospital-acquired complication per unit, reduction in the rate of unplanned transfers of non-Do Not Resuscitate (non-DNR) patients to a higher level of care, and reduction in the risk-adjusted mortality rate of non-DNR patients. | | Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
Evaluation of an ICU Intervention | $226,000 | Jul. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $226,000 | Jul. 2012 |
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Purpose
To support the evaluation of the implementation of an ICU clinical bundle intervention. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $987,024 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant to Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, is to support the development of a predictive model for hospital readmissions. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $1,584,080 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of testing a predictive model for early deterioration of impending physiologic deterioration (EDIP) of hospitalized patients and developing an electronic early warning system for implementing the EDIP model. The predictive model and early warning system will be piloted at Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, with the goal of reducing unplanned transfers to the ICU and ICU mortality. | | Health 2.0 LLC
Bridging the Gap between Hospitals and the Healthcare IT Startup Community in Transitions of Care | $225,000 | Jun. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $225,000 | Jun. 2012 |
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Purpose
In support of the creation of a two-part guide aimed at bridging the knowledge gap between hospitals and the healthcare IT startup community in developing practical IT applications to improve transitions of care. | | Valley Medical Center Foundation
Heart Failure Transitions of Care Program | $610,241 | May 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 46 mo. | $610,241 | May 2012 |
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Purpose
In support of implementation and evaluation of a transitional care program for heart failure patients. The goal of the program is to achieve and sustain a 30% reduction in the 30-day and a 15% reduction in 90-day all-cause readmission rates for patients with heart failure. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 37 mo. | $2,100,000 | Oct. 2006 |
Purpose
To achieve Magnet Recognition, a designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center of excellence in nursing care, and improved patient outcomes through implementation of evidence-based nursing practices throughout the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $75,000 | Jun. 2005 |
Purpose
Valley Medical Center Foundation is using this grant to implement the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100K Lives Campaign, a national initiative to implement six scientifically-based clinical interventions that address leading sources of mortality and complications within hospitals. Outcomes include implementation of Campaign interventions, participation in a Regional Hospital Collaborative on Patient Safety, and communication of aggregate mortality data to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. | | Sutter Health Systems
Transformation to Better, Safer Patient Care - Phase II | $2,300,000 | May 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 68 mo. | $2,300,000 | May 2012 |
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Purpose
To support the development and implementation of an Intensive Care Unit-Awakening and Breathing Coordination, Delirium Monitoring, and Exercise/Early Mobility intervention; a reduction in the percent of hospitalized patients with significantly high or low blood glucose levels; and development and implementation of an inter-professional team model with the goal of significantly reducing morbidity, mortality, and improving patient outcomes. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 40 mo. | $1,944,905 | Jul. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of spreading the Heart Failure Continuum of Care Model, a highly effective transitional care program aimed at reducing Heart Failure readmissions. Outcomes include a reduction in both 30-day and 90-day readmission rates at Eden Medical Center by at least 30% as compared to the 2009 baseline, and the commitment of at least one additional San Francisco Bay Area Sutter Health hospital to fully implement the Model. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 96 mo. | $3,591,000 | Jan. 2010 |
Purpose
For improved nursing-related patient outcomes in the Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region. Through implementation of evidence-based practices, the project goals are a reduction in severe sepsis and septic shock mortality of non-Do Not Resuscitate patients at five Sutter hospitals, reduction in the percent of patients at one hospital with significantly high or low levels of blood glucose levels while hospitalized, and improved patient safety outcomes through nurse leadership development and the adoption of "Just Culture" principles. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 50 mo. | $2,180,000 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
For the continuation of the Partners Advancing Clinical Excellence (PACE) initiative, in strengthening its efforts to reduce severe sepsis mortality rates at five San Francisco Bay Area Sutter affiliates. This project will lead to three outcomes at each of the five Sutter affiliates: 1) significant reduction in the hospital-wide severe sepsis mortality rate, 2) achievement of an evidence-based target for an additional driver of mortality and/or complications, and 3) maintenance of the improvement gains realized on four Phase I PACE council initiatives through 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $490,000 | Sep. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to Sutter Health is for the development of a comprehensive plan for transforming patient care in its Sacramento Sierra Region hospitals. The plan developed through this grant will provide a roadmap, with specific outcome improvement targets and change models, towards best-in-class inpatient care in the region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 33 mo. | $2,300,000 | Jul. 2007 |
Purpose
Sutter Health System is using this grant to implement and evaluate a Continuum of Care model for congestive heart failure patients in two Sutter Health affiliates in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through the grant, Sutter Health will implement the Continuum of Care model in the Alta Bates and Summit campuses of the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. By providing better coordinated and higher quality of care during and following hospitalization, the project is anticipated to result in improved patient outcomes and lower rates of hospital readmission for advanced heart failure patients. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 86 mo. | $6,171,000 | Jul. 2006 |
Purpose
Sutter Health Systems is using this grant to implement the Transforming Nursing Practice project, a comprehensive program to implement evidence-based practices at the bedside at each of the six Sutter Health acute care hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through the grant, Bay Area Sutter Health affiliates will undertake a multi-site initiative which will leverage individual hospital efforts to significantly improve clinical patient outcomes directly impacted by nursing care. | | Alameda County Medical Center
Implementation of Project RED | $690,926 | Apr. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 47 mo. | $690,926 | Apr. 2012 |
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Purpose
For implementation of a transitional care program at Highland Hospital aimed at reducing the 30-day all cause readmission rate by at least 30% and the 90-day all cause readmission rate by at least 15% for high risk patients compared to a 2010 baseline. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 64 mo. | $752,000 | Sep. 2008 |
Purpose
To reduce hospital-wide severe sepsis mortality rates. Outcomes will be achieved by participation in the Integrated Nurse Leadership Program's severe sepsis mortality initiative in collaboration with other Bay Area hospitals to reduce severe sepsis mortality rates, rollout of 24/7 Rapid Response Teams to increase early identification and response to deterioration on step-down and medical-surgical units, and implementation of the California Nurses Foundation Nurse-to-Nurse mentorship/preceptorship program to increase the preparedness of new and existing RNs in the Emergency Department and all inpatient units. | | Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System
Implementation of Project RED | $536,509 | Apr. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 47 mo. | $536,509 | Apr. 2012 |
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Purpose
In support of work to achieve and sustain a 30% reduction in 30-day readmissions and a 15% reduction in 90-day readmissions for patients discharged from the acute inpatient units at the hospital. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 33 mo. | $255,000 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System’s Magnet Journey. Funding will be used to support the implementation of a hospital-wide, 15 month Evidence-Based Practice program designed to build a cadre of Evidence-Based Practice Mentors and Practitioners while improving clinical outcomes and significantly increasing the hospital’s Magnet readiness. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $75,000 | Jun. 2005 |
Purpose
Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System is using this grant to implement the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100K Lives Campaign, a national initiative to implement six scientifically-based clinical interventions that address leading sources of mortality and complications within hospitals. Outcomes include implementation of Campaign interventions, participation in a Regional Hospital Collaborative on Patient Safety, and communication of aggregate mortality data to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. | | ValleyCare Health System
ValleyCare Magnet Readiness Program | $134,000 | Feb. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 21 mo. | $134,000 | Feb. 2012 |
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This grant will support ValleyCare Health System’s Magnet Journey, leading to the submission of its completed Magnet documentation, and Magnet designation by December 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 19 mo. | $32,000 | Aug. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support ValleyCare Health System’s Magnet Journey, leading to the submission of its Magnet application, completed Magnet documentation, and Magnet designation by March 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $939,000 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of the purchase, installation, and implementation of bar-coding technology in ValleyCare Health System's Pleasanton campus, with the goal of significantly reducing medication administration errors in all adult inpatient units by December 31st, 2012. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $574,380 | Sep. 2008 |
Purpose
To involve ValleyCare Health System with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, ?Transforming Care at the Bedside Program to optimize the discharge planning process for fragile elders with Congestive Heart Failure. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $40,000 | Sep. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant will support an external gap analysis, action plans, and submission of ValleyCare Health System’s Magnet Application. The grant will assist ValleyCare Health System in their Magnet Designation Journey and will lead to continuous improvement of nursing care at ValleyCare. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $75,000 | Jun. 2005 |
Purpose
ValleyCare Health System is using this grant to implement the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100K Lives Campaign, a national initiative to implement six scientifically-based clinical interventions that address leading sources of mortality and complications within hospitals. Outcomes include implementation of Campaign interventions, participation in a Regional Hospital Collaborative on Patient Safety, and communication of aggregate mortality data to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. | | Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
Spread of Destination Great and Phase 1 of Ready-Room Pilot | $550,000 | Nov. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $550,000 | Nov. 2011 |
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Purpose
The purpose of this grant is to spread operational improvements to the work environment for RNs, increasing both patient satisfaction and RN time spent in the patient room at three Kaiser Greater Sacramento hospitals. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $50,000 | Feb. 2010 |
Purpose
For the collection and analysis of patient outcome data to determine the effect of the Transitional Care Model program on reducing hospital readmissions at Kaiser San Francisco, Kaiser Hayward/Fremont, and Kaiser Redwood City. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 52 mo. | $5,627,600 | Jul. 2009 |
Purpose
To accelerate a region-wide program to reduce sepsis mortality. The grant will ensure implementation of evidence-based best practices in early identification and treatment of patients with severe sepsis (overwhelming bloodstream infection) that have been shown to reduce sepsis mortality. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 57 mo. | $2,400,000 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
To identify, implement and sustain operational improvements in one San Francisco Bay Area and one Greater Sacramento hospital, with the goal of improving the work environment for medical-surgical registered nurses (RNs) and increasing the time RNs spend on patient care activities and in the patient room. This grant leverages and implements the findings of the "A 36-Hospital Time and Motion Study: How do Medical-Surgical Nurses Spend their Time?" research study co-funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 32 mo. | $663,960 | Mar. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant supports a multi-site study of the Transitional Care Models in three Kaiser hospitals through a partnership between the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. Outcomes include improvement of patient outcomes for approximately 300 high-risk elderly patients and assessment of the improved discharge-planning model. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $176,875 | Aug. 2005 |
Purpose
Kaiser Permanente is using this grant to study the influence of specific nursing workplace variables on acute-care delivery. The results of this three-phase, multi-center project will inform hospitals nationwide of physical and environmental workplace factors impacting the efficiency of nursing care. Outcomes include the study of acute-care workplace variables and the design of an optimal nursing unit. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 3 mo. | $70,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
Under this grant, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, in collaboration with the UC San Francisco School of Nursing, will explore the feasibility of creating an evidence-based nursing care management institute. Outcomes include creation of a plan for establishing an Evidence-Based Nursing Care Management Institute in the Bay Area.
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Marin General Avoiding Readmissions Collaborative Implementation | $750,000 | Oct. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $750,000 | Oct. 2011 |
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Purpose
This grant supports Marin General Hospital Foundation, in partnership with the Marin County Department of Health and Human Services, to implement and evaluate a transitional care program aimed at a sustained reduction in both 30-day readmission rates by at least 30% and 90-day readmission rates by at least 15% for patients age 65 and older as compared to a 2010 baseline. | | Mills-Peninsula Hospital Foundation
Peninsula Medical Center Transitional Care Program | $1,000,000 | Sep. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 75 mo. | $1,000,000 | Sep. 2011 |
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Purpose
This grant supports Mills Peninsula Hospital Foundation, in partnership with Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Peninsula Family Services, to implement and evaluate a transitional care program aimed at reducing hospital readmissions for patients age 65 and older. The outcome of this grant is to achieve a sustained reduction in both 30- and 90-day readmission rates for patients age 65 and older by at least 30% as compared to a 2011 baseline. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 33 mo. | $355,000 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support Mills-Peninsula Health System’s Magnet Journey, leading to the submission of the Magnet application, full documentation, and Magnet designation by May 30, 2014. | | University of California, Davis Medical Center
Prevention and Mitigation of ICU-Acquired Delirium and Weakness Pilot | $443,000 | Sep. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 75 mo. | $443,000 | Sep. 2011 |
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Purpose
This grant will support the development and implementation of an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Awakening and Breathing Coordination, Delirium Monitoring, and Exercise/Early Mobility evidence-based intervention incorporating the management of delirium, sleep, sedation, and mobility, with the goal of significantly reducing ICU mortality and length of stay by June 30, 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 76 mo. | $1,357,000 | Aug. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of California, Davis Medical Center will support the implementation of a hospital-wide program to reduce sepsis (overwhelming bloodstream infection) mortality through evidence-based practices for early identification and treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock. This grant supports the implementation of best practices that will lead to a reduction in sepsis mortality, sustained through 2017. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $550,000 | Jun. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of California, Davis Medical Center will support the medical center to achieve Magnet Designation by December 31, 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $101,000 | Sep. 2010 |
Purpose
For the development of a plan for fully implementing evidence-based practices for the identification and treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock, with the goal of significantly reducing All-Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, and Septic Shock mortality at UC Davis Medical Center. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 87 mo. | $1,200,000 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
For the implementation of a unit-based patient safety infrastructure, through which evidence-based practices for preventing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) at the University of California, Davis Medical Center, and sustaining reduced VAP through 2017. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $20,000 | Apr. 2010 |
Purpose
For an external Magnet readiness assessment for the University of California Davis Medical Center, and development of a baseline assessment on the state of nursing care and information for continuous improvement of nursing care in Greater Sacramento. | | Center for Quality Systems Improvement
SFBA Clinical Impact Interest Groups | $1,357,000 | Sep. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 21 mo. | $1,357,000 | Sep. 2011 |
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Purpose
This grant supports the Center for Quality Systems Improvement (CQSI) to offer two targeted clinical impact interest groups, quality improvement education, and on-site support to hospitals working on improving patient outcomes. The grant outcomes are the achievement of evidence-based patient safety and quality improvement targets by hospitals participating in the two clinical impact interest groups, as well as the enhancement of clinical improvement leadership skills for at least 350 healthcare providers. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 23 mo. | $896,720 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant is to continue a successful transitions of care learning collaborative in which Northern California hospitals and their outpatient partners (physician practices, home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, and others) share best practices with the common goals of improving the quality of transition from hospital to home and reducing unnecessary hospital readmissions. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 41 mo. | $959,000 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of creating a Readmissions Learning Community in which hospitals and their outpatient provider partners confirm and share evidence-based practices shown to reduce hospital readmissions. The outputs of the grant include participation by at least 50% of the 5-county San Francisco Bay Area hospitals, and the collaborative development of detailed plans to implement evidence-based practices, each designed to reduce 30- and 90-day hospital readmission rates by at least 30% by December 31, 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $350,000 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
For research in two to three San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) hospitals on the impact of high patient volume days on the increased likelihood of preventable patient harm. The research will identify high patient volume points at which patient harm is significantly more likely to occur. Following identification of these points, an actionable program for SFBA hospitals will be developed and piloted with the goal of reducing preventable harm during high volume days in at least three SFBA hospitals. | | Mills-Peninsula Hospital Foundation
Mills-Peninsula Health Services Magnet Readiness Program | $355,000 | Sep. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 33 mo. | $355,000 | Sep. 2011 |
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Purpose
This grant will support Mills-Peninsula Health System’s Magnet Journey, leading to the submission of the Magnet application, full documentation, and Magnet designation by May 30, 2014. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 75 mo. | $1,000,000 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant supports Mills Peninsula Hospital Foundation, in partnership with Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Peninsula Family Services, to implement and evaluate a transitional care program aimed at reducing hospital readmissions for patients age 65 and older. The outcome of this grant is to achieve a sustained reduction in both 30- and 90-day readmission rates for patients age 65 and older by at least 30% as compared to a 2011 baseline. | | University of Minnesota, School of Nursing
San Francisco Bay Area QSEN Informatics Deep Dive Workshop | $350,000 | Sep. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 21 mo. | $350,000 | Sep. 2011 |
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Purpose
The purpose of this grant to the University of Minnesota, School of Nursing is to develop, pilot, and evaluate a workshop to enhance the knowledge and competencies of 10-county San Francisco Bay Area nursing school faculty in informatics. The workshop will strengthen implementation of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses curriculum enhancements underway in the San Francisco Bay Area and nationally. | | Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System
VA-Palo Alto Magnet Readiness Program | $255,000 | Sep. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 33 mo. | $255,000 | Sep. 2011 |
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Purpose
This grant will support the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System’s Magnet Journey. Funding will be used to support the implementation of a hospital-wide, 15 month Evidence-Based Practice program designed to build a cadre of Evidence-Based Practice Mentors and Practitioners while improving clinical outcomes and significantly increasing the hospital’s Magnet readiness. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 47 mo. | $536,509 | Apr. 2012 |
Purpose
In support of work to achieve and sustain a 30% reduction in 30-day readmissions and a 15% reduction in 90-day readmissions for patients discharged from the acute inpatient units at the hospital. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $75,000 | Jun. 2005 |
Purpose
Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System is using this grant to implement the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100K Lives Campaign, a national initiative to implement six scientifically-based clinical interventions that address leading sources of mortality and complications within hospitals. Outcomes include implementation of Campaign interventions, participation in a Regional Hospital Collaborative on Patient Safety, and communication of aggregate mortality data to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. | | ValleyCare Health System
ValleyCare Magnet Readiness Program | $32,000 | Aug. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 19 mo. | $32,000 | Aug. 2011 |
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Purpose
This grant will support ValleyCare Health System’s Magnet Journey, leading to the submission of its Magnet application, completed Magnet documentation, and Magnet designation by March 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 21 mo. | $134,000 | Feb. 2012 |
Purpose
This grant will support ValleyCare Health System’s Magnet Journey, leading to the submission of its completed Magnet documentation, and Magnet designation by December 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $939,000 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of the purchase, installation, and implementation of bar-coding technology in ValleyCare Health System's Pleasanton campus, with the goal of significantly reducing medication administration errors in all adult inpatient units by December 31st, 2012. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $574,380 | Sep. 2008 |
Purpose
To involve ValleyCare Health System with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, ?Transforming Care at the Bedside Program to optimize the discharge planning process for fragile elders with Congestive Heart Failure. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $40,000 | Sep. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant will support an external gap analysis, action plans, and submission of ValleyCare Health System’s Magnet Application. The grant will assist ValleyCare Health System in their Magnet Designation Journey and will lead to continuous improvement of nursing care at ValleyCare. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $75,000 | Jun. 2005 |
Purpose
ValleyCare Health System is using this grant to implement the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100K Lives Campaign, a national initiative to implement six scientifically-based clinical interventions that address leading sources of mortality and complications within hospitals. Outcomes include implementation of Campaign interventions, participation in a Regional Hospital Collaborative on Patient Safety, and communication of aggregate mortality data to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. | | University of California, Davis Medical Center
University of California, Davis Medical Center Sepsis Reduction Initiative | $1,357,000 | Aug. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 76 mo. | $1,357,000 | Aug. 2011 |
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Purpose
This grant to the University of California, Davis Medical Center will support the implementation of a hospital-wide program to reduce sepsis (overwhelming bloodstream infection) mortality through evidence-based practices for early identification and treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock. This grant supports the implementation of best practices that will lead to a reduction in sepsis mortality, sustained through 2017. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 75 mo. | $443,000 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support the development and implementation of an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Awakening and Breathing Coordination, Delirium Monitoring, and Exercise/Early Mobility evidence-based intervention incorporating the management of delirium, sleep, sedation, and mobility, with the goal of significantly reducing ICU mortality and length of stay by June 30, 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $550,000 | Jun. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of California, Davis Medical Center will support the medical center to achieve Magnet Designation by December 31, 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $101,000 | Sep. 2010 |
Purpose
For the development of a plan for fully implementing evidence-based practices for the identification and treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock, with the goal of significantly reducing All-Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, and Septic Shock mortality at UC Davis Medical Center. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 87 mo. | $1,200,000 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
For the implementation of a unit-based patient safety infrastructure, through which evidence-based practices for preventing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) at the University of California, Davis Medical Center, and sustaining reduced VAP through 2017. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $20,000 | Apr. 2010 |
Purpose
For an external Magnet readiness assessment for the University of California Davis Medical Center, and development of a baseline assessment on the state of nursing care and information for continuous improvement of nursing care in Greater Sacramento. | | University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing
Pilot of New Care Delivery Model for Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions | $760,000 | Jun. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $760,000 | Jun. 2011 |
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This grant to the University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing supports the design, pilot, and evaluation of a new care delivery model for older adults with multiple chronic conditions--a combination of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and the Transitional Care Model (TCM). The goals of the pilot are to demonstrate positive trends in patient outcomes, patient satisfaction, caregivers’ and health teams’ satisfaction, and to determine whether to proceed to a large scale study of the new model. | | University of California, Davis Medical Center
Magnet Designation Program | $550,000 | Jun. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $550,000 | Jun. 2011 |
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This grant to the University of California, Davis Medical Center will support the medical center to achieve Magnet Designation by December 31, 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 75 mo. | $443,000 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support the development and implementation of an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Awakening and Breathing Coordination, Delirium Monitoring, and Exercise/Early Mobility evidence-based intervention incorporating the management of delirium, sleep, sedation, and mobility, with the goal of significantly reducing ICU mortality and length of stay by June 30, 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 76 mo. | $1,357,000 | Aug. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of California, Davis Medical Center will support the implementation of a hospital-wide program to reduce sepsis (overwhelming bloodstream infection) mortality through evidence-based practices for early identification and treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock. This grant supports the implementation of best practices that will lead to a reduction in sepsis mortality, sustained through 2017. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $101,000 | Sep. 2010 |
Purpose
For the development of a plan for fully implementing evidence-based practices for the identification and treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock, with the goal of significantly reducing All-Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, and Septic Shock mortality at UC Davis Medical Center. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 87 mo. | $1,200,000 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
For the implementation of a unit-based patient safety infrastructure, through which evidence-based practices for preventing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) at the University of California, Davis Medical Center, and sustaining reduced VAP through 2017. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $20,000 | Apr. 2010 |
Purpose
For an external Magnet readiness assessment for the University of California Davis Medical Center, and development of a baseline assessment on the state of nursing care and information for continuous improvement of nursing care in Greater Sacramento. | | American Association of Colleges of Nursing
QSEN Hospital Engagement | $386,000 | Apr. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $386,000 | Apr. 2011 |
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The purpose of this grant to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing is to incorporate representatives from the 10-county San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) hospitals in the Quality and Safety Education for Nursing curriculum enhancement efforts underway with the SFBA schools of nursing and to implement a rigorous evaluation of these curriculum enhancement efforts. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 35 mo. | $250,000 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
To develop, implement, and evaluate a 2-day nursing faculty training program focused on teaching 20% of the 10-county San Francisco Bay Area nursing faculty how to incorporate Quality and Safety Education for Nursing competencies into pre-licensure nursing education. Participating faculty will enhance the curricula, and educate and mentor faculty colleagues and students in the teaching of quality and safety concepts. The impact of this institute will be evaluated during the two years following the faculty training session. | | Catholic Healthcare West
Preventable Hospital Complications and Mortality Initiative | $3,900,000 | Feb. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 82 mo. | $3,900,000 | Feb. 2011 |
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This grant to Catholic Healthcare West will support improved nursing-related patient outcomes across nine hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Sacramento regions. Through the implementation of evidence-based practices, this grant will lead to improved glycemic control and safety, a reduction in the incidence of preventable hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism, and a reduction in mortality among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications. All outcomes will be achieved by the end of 2013 and are to be sustained through 2017. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $628,525 | Jun. 2009 |
Purpose
Catholic Healthcare West will use this grant to develop a Comprehensive Transformation Plan to create and implement a best practice model to reduce risk-adjusted inpatient mortality by 20% and select complications by 20% (over baseline 2004) by January 2013, with a X% reduction in risk-adjusted inpatient mortality between 2010 and 2013, across 9 CHW BIMNI acute care hospitals in Sacramento and the Bay Area region. The final output of this grant will be the Comprehensive Transformation Plan, complete with key interventions identified to reduce overall mortality and an inter-professional team educated and prepared to implement the plan. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $1,776,000 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
In support of implementing best practices for early identification and treatment of severe sepsis at Catholic Healthcare West's San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Sacramento hospitals, with the goal of reducing its aggregate severe sepsis mortality rate by 20% and sustaining this improved rate over time. | | Society of Critical Care Medicine
Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) Phase II | $601,000 | Oct. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 32 mo. | $601,000 | Oct. 2010 |
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For Phase II of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign. The project will support the development of revised severe sepsis and septic shock treatment guidelines, incorporation of recently published evidence; revising severe sepsis and septic shock treatment bundles in line with the revised guidelines; updated campaign tools that reflect the new guidelines and bundles; and research to address additional high priority questions for identification and treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock. | | California Institute for Nursing and Healthcare
Updated Strategic Plan | $150,000 | Sep. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $150,000 | Sep. 2010 |
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For updating the organization's overall strategic plan, by supporting the Executive Director's engagement in activities that clarify the organization's value proposition in light of changing external conditions, and to develop a refined business model, succession plans, and a development plan that are aligned with this confirmed value proposition. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $710,000 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
In support of the engagement of 250 new RN graduates from the 5-county San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) schools of nursing to participate in Transition Programs with SFBA healthcare facilities, to better prepare them for nursing jobs. A Request for Proposal grant opportunity will establish regional collaboratives in the SFBA to develop and execute pilot Transition Programs. A network of these collaboratives will facilitate sharing of challenges and best practices and conduct an evaluation of these programs' impact on new RN graduates' ability to further develop their competencies and secure a job upon completion. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 5 mo. | $50,000 | Aug. 2007 |
Purpose
The California Institute for Nursing & Health Care will use this grant to host the Magic in Teaching II Conference. The one-day continuing education course, designed for nurse educators, mentors, and preceptors in the San Francisco Bay Area, will provide over 400 participants the opportunity to learn about and experience evidence-based teaching and student learning strategies to improve their teaching effectiveness. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $800,000 | May 2007 |
Purpose
The California Institute for Nursing & Health Care will use this grant to organize the Bay Area Simulation Collaborative. The outcomes of this grant will help the Collaborative meet its goal of expanding educational capacity and improving the skills of registered nursing students and practicing nurses in the San Francisco Bay Area through high-fidelity simulation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $851,199 | Feb. 2007 |
Purpose
To develop and implement, in partnership with the California Board of Registered Nursing, an intensive education program for practicing RNs. The program will prepare MSN-level RNs to become clinical instructors, and thereby increase the clinical faculty pool in the five county Bay Area. Additionally, the program will recruit and prepare BSN-level RNs to become assistant instructors that provide consistently higher quality clinical experiences for students studying to become RNs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $259,188 | Jul. 2006 |
Purpose
The California Institute for Nursing and Healthcare is using this grant to develop a white paper that examines the need to redesign nursing education; suggests recommendations for curricula enhancements; defines action steps for implementation of the recommendations; and provides a plan for building broad-based consensus within the nursing education and practice community nationally and in California. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $106,476 | Apr. 2005 |
Purpose
With this grant, the California Institute for Nursing & Healthcare and the Board of Registered Nurses are implementing the first phase of the Consolidated Survey project. Outcomes include the collection and consolidation of all California nursing school data.
| Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $50,000 | Mar. 2005 |
Purpose
The California Institute for Nursing and Healthcare used this grant to develop a supplemental nursing course for new adjunct and part-time nursing faculty in the Bay Area. | | University of California, Davis Medical Center
Sepsis Mortality Reduction Planning Grant | $101,000 | Sep. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $101,000 | Sep. 2010 |
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For the development of a plan for fully implementing evidence-based practices for the identification and treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock, with the goal of significantly reducing All-Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, and Septic Shock mortality at UC Davis Medical Center. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 75 mo. | $443,000 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support the development and implementation of an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Awakening and Breathing Coordination, Delirium Monitoring, and Exercise/Early Mobility evidence-based intervention incorporating the management of delirium, sleep, sedation, and mobility, with the goal of significantly reducing ICU mortality and length of stay by June 30, 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 76 mo. | $1,357,000 | Aug. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of California, Davis Medical Center will support the implementation of a hospital-wide program to reduce sepsis (overwhelming bloodstream infection) mortality through evidence-based practices for early identification and treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock. This grant supports the implementation of best practices that will lead to a reduction in sepsis mortality, sustained through 2017. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $550,000 | Jun. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of California, Davis Medical Center will support the medical center to achieve Magnet Designation by December 31, 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 87 mo. | $1,200,000 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
For the implementation of a unit-based patient safety infrastructure, through which evidence-based practices for preventing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) at the University of California, Davis Medical Center, and sustaining reduced VAP through 2017. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $20,000 | Apr. 2010 |
Purpose
For an external Magnet readiness assessment for the University of California Davis Medical Center, and development of a baseline assessment on the state of nursing care and information for continuous improvement of nursing care in Greater Sacramento. | | University of California, Davis Medical Center
UC Davis Medical Center-VAP Prevention Initiative | $1,200,000 | Aug. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 87 mo. | $1,200,000 | Aug. 2010 |
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For the implementation of a unit-based patient safety infrastructure, through which evidence-based practices for preventing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) at the University of California, Davis Medical Center, and sustaining reduced VAP through 2017. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 75 mo. | $443,000 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support the development and implementation of an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Awakening and Breathing Coordination, Delirium Monitoring, and Exercise/Early Mobility evidence-based intervention incorporating the management of delirium, sleep, sedation, and mobility, with the goal of significantly reducing ICU mortality and length of stay by June 30, 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 76 mo. | $1,357,000 | Aug. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of California, Davis Medical Center will support the implementation of a hospital-wide program to reduce sepsis (overwhelming bloodstream infection) mortality through evidence-based practices for early identification and treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock. This grant supports the implementation of best practices that will lead to a reduction in sepsis mortality, sustained through 2017. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $550,000 | Jun. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of California, Davis Medical Center will support the medical center to achieve Magnet Designation by December 31, 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $101,000 | Sep. 2010 |
Purpose
For the development of a plan for fully implementing evidence-based practices for the identification and treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock, with the goal of significantly reducing All-Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, and Septic Shock mortality at UC Davis Medical Center. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $20,000 | Apr. 2010 |
Purpose
For an external Magnet readiness assessment for the University of California Davis Medical Center, and development of a baseline assessment on the state of nursing care and information for continuous improvement of nursing care in Greater Sacramento. | | UCSF Medical Center
Magnet Readiness Program | $550,000 | Aug. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $550,000 | Aug. 2010 |
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For a Magnet Readiness program at the University of California, San Francisco (USCF) Medical Center, including the improvement of nursing-related patient outcomes to levels meeting or exceeding Magnet benchmarks. This program will lead to the outcomes of a reduction in the hospital-wide Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcer rate, a reduction in the hospital-wide Central Line Blood Stream Infection rate, and submission of UCSF's Magnet application by July 15, 2012. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $575,000 | Sep. 2008 |
Purpose
To involve University of California, San Francisco Medical Center with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Transforming Care at the Bedside Program to optimize the discharge planning process for fragile elders with Congestive Heart Failure. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $75,000 | Jun. 2005 |
Purpose
UCSF Medical Center is using this grant to implement the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100K Lives Campaign, a national initiative to implement six scientifically-based clinical interventions that address leading sources of mortality and complications within hospitals. Outcomes include implementation of Campaign interventions, participation in a Regional Hospital Collaborative on Patient Safety, and communication of aggregate mortality data to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. | | Sutter Health Systems
Heart Failure Continuum of Care Model Spread | $1,944,905 | Jul. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 40 mo. | $1,944,905 | Jul. 2010 |
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In support of spreading the Heart Failure Continuum of Care Model, a highly effective transitional care program aimed at reducing Heart Failure readmissions. Outcomes include a reduction in both 30-day and 90-day readmission rates at Eden Medical Center by at least 30% as compared to the 2009 baseline, and the commitment of at least one additional San Francisco Bay Area Sutter Health hospital to fully implement the Model. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 68 mo. | $2,300,000 | May 2012 |
Purpose
To support the development and implementation of an Intensive Care Unit-Awakening and Breathing Coordination, Delirium Monitoring, and Exercise/Early Mobility intervention; a reduction in the percent of hospitalized patients with significantly high or low blood glucose levels; and development and implementation of an inter-professional team model with the goal of significantly reducing morbidity, mortality, and improving patient outcomes. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 96 mo. | $3,591,000 | Jan. 2010 |
Purpose
For improved nursing-related patient outcomes in the Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region. Through implementation of evidence-based practices, the project goals are a reduction in severe sepsis and septic shock mortality of non-Do Not Resuscitate patients at five Sutter hospitals, reduction in the percent of patients at one hospital with significantly high or low levels of blood glucose levels while hospitalized, and improved patient safety outcomes through nurse leadership development and the adoption of "Just Culture" principles. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 50 mo. | $2,180,000 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
For the continuation of the Partners Advancing Clinical Excellence (PACE) initiative, in strengthening its efforts to reduce severe sepsis mortality rates at five San Francisco Bay Area Sutter affiliates. This project will lead to three outcomes at each of the five Sutter affiliates: 1) significant reduction in the hospital-wide severe sepsis mortality rate, 2) achievement of an evidence-based target for an additional driver of mortality and/or complications, and 3) maintenance of the improvement gains realized on four Phase I PACE council initiatives through 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $490,000 | Sep. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to Sutter Health is for the development of a comprehensive plan for transforming patient care in its Sacramento Sierra Region hospitals. The plan developed through this grant will provide a roadmap, with specific outcome improvement targets and change models, towards best-in-class inpatient care in the region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 33 mo. | $2,300,000 | Jul. 2007 |
Purpose
Sutter Health System is using this grant to implement and evaluate a Continuum of Care model for congestive heart failure patients in two Sutter Health affiliates in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through the grant, Sutter Health will implement the Continuum of Care model in the Alta Bates and Summit campuses of the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. By providing better coordinated and higher quality of care during and following hospitalization, the project is anticipated to result in improved patient outcomes and lower rates of hospital readmission for advanced heart failure patients. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 86 mo. | $6,171,000 | Jul. 2006 |
Purpose
Sutter Health Systems is using this grant to implement the Transforming Nursing Practice project, a comprehensive program to implement evidence-based practices at the bedside at each of the six Sutter Health acute care hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through the grant, Bay Area Sutter Health affiliates will undertake a multi-site initiative which will leverage individual hospital efforts to significantly improve clinical patient outcomes directly impacted by nursing care. | | University of California, San Francisco Center for the Health Professions
New RN Graduate Hiring Survey | $245,475 | Jul. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 39 mo. | $245,475 | Jul. 2010 |
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To conduct an annual evaluation of the plans of California acute care hospitals to hire new Registered Nurse (RN) graduates. This evaluation will provide updated information on the demand for new RN graduates over time and will identify implications for new RN graduates based on an enhanced understanding of RN supply and demand. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 50 mo. | $511,000 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of California, San Francisco Center for the Health Professions will be used to support Phase II of the Integrated Nurse Leadership Program. Nurse release time and specific programming aimed at physician and executive engagement will ensure successful implementation of a program for early identification and treatment of sepsis, to reduce inpatient mortality from severe sepsis in eight San Francisco Bay Area adult acute care hospitals by 15 percent. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 35 mo. | $5,638,000 | May 2008 |
Purpose
To implement Phase II of the Integrated Nurse Leadership Program, and continue to develop curriculum that addresses frontline practitioners' leadership and change management skills, improves medication administration processes, and results in earlier identification and treatment of sepsis (overwhelming bloodstream infection). The grant will also increase participation of nurses from the five Bay Area counties in the Regional Nurse Network (RN2). Outcomes include reduction in the rates of medication administration errors, and inpatient mortality from severe sepsis in eight Bay Area adult acute care hospitals. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $150,000 | Sep. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant supports a study of how two information technology systems affect nurses and patient care in Veterans Health Administration hospitals. California hospitals were required to implement information technology solutions by 2005 to reduce or eliminate medication-related errors. Outcomes include a report of the effects of Computerized Patient Record and Bar Code Medication Administration systems in the Veterans Health Administration. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 38 mo. | $5,708,450 | Jul. 2004 |
Purpose
UCSF’s Center for the Health Professions is using this grant to teach leadership and management skills to hospital executives, managers, and nursing staff. Through this program, the Center will also help 16 Bay Area hospitals develop and implement organization-specific strategies to improve nursing staff retention and nursing-related patient care. Outcomes include a 50% improvement in any single effectiveness indicator or an aggregate average of 25% improvement across all indicators in 16 Bay Area hospitals. | | Center for Quality Systems Improvement
Hospital Readmissions Learning Community | $959,000 | Jun. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 41 mo. | $959,000 | Jun. 2010 |
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In support of creating a Readmissions Learning Community in which hospitals and their outpatient provider partners confirm and share evidence-based practices shown to reduce hospital readmissions. The outputs of the grant include participation by at least 50% of the 5-county San Francisco Bay Area hospitals, and the collaborative development of detailed plans to implement evidence-based practices, each designed to reduce 30- and 90-day hospital readmission rates by at least 30% by December 31, 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 23 mo. | $896,720 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant is to continue a successful transitions of care learning collaborative in which Northern California hospitals and their outpatient partners (physician practices, home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, and others) share best practices with the common goals of improving the quality of transition from hospital to home and reducing unnecessary hospital readmissions. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 21 mo. | $1,357,000 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Center for Quality Systems Improvement (CQSI) to offer two targeted clinical impact interest groups, quality improvement education, and on-site support to hospitals working on improving patient outcomes. The grant outcomes are the achievement of evidence-based patient safety and quality improvement targets by hospitals participating in the two clinical impact interest groups, as well as the enhancement of clinical improvement leadership skills for at least 350 healthcare providers. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $350,000 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
For research in two to three San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) hospitals on the impact of high patient volume days on the increased likelihood of preventable patient harm. The research will identify high patient volume points at which patient harm is significantly more likely to occur. Following identification of these points, an actionable program for SFBA hospitals will be developed and piloted with the goal of reducing preventable harm during high volume days in at least three SFBA hospitals. | | Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Magnet Re-designation Program | $165,000 | May 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $165,000 | May 2010 |
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For the application for Magnet re-designation, leading to re-designation by December 31, 2011. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $75,000 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant to Stanford Hospital & Clinics ("Stanford Hospital") is to support the planning required to develop a patient surveillance system that can proactively identify patients at risk for significant clinical deterioration. The output of this grant will be a proposal, including timeline and budget, to implement and evaluate a patient surveillance system. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $75,000 | Jun. 2005 |
Purpose
Stanford Hospital and Clinics is using this grant to implement the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100K Lives Campaign, a national initiative to implement six scientifically-based clinical interventions that address leading sources of mortality and complications within hospitals. Outcomes include implementation of Campaign interventions, participation in a Regional Hospital Collaborative on Patient Safety, and communication of aggregate mortality data to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. | | Health Plan of San Mateo
Care Transitions Model Implementation Plan | $117,000 | May 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $117,000 | May 2010 |
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To support development of a plan for fully implementing the Care Transitions Model with Health Plan of San Mateo patients hospitalized at San Mateo Medical Center. The immediate goal of the grant is to double patient participation in the Care Transitions Model, and the long-term goal is to reduce 30-day and 90-day readmission rates for Health Plan of San Mateo patients hospitalized at San Mateo Medical Center by at least 30%. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $849,031 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
For the pilot of an inter-disciplinary team-based care management model for Health Plan of San Mateo high utilization patients, most of whom have multiple chronic conditions. The pilot will result in improved quality outcomes, reduced Emergency Department visits and hospitalizations, and a commitment by the Health Plan of San Mateo to fully implement and sustain the new model if successful. | | Catholic Healthcare West, Sierra Nevada Memorial-Miners Hospital
"Greater Sacramento Journey to Excellence" Grant Program | $20,000 | Apr. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $20,000 | Apr. 2010 |
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For an external Magnet readiness assessment at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital to develop a baseline assessment of the state of nursing care and provide information for continuous improvement of nursing care in Greater Sacramento. | | Catholic Healthcare West, Woodland Healthcare
"Greater Sacramento Journey to Excellence" Grant Program | $20,000 | Apr. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $20,000 | Apr. 2010 |
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In support of an external Magnet readiness assessment for Woodland Healthcare. The readiness assessment will assist Woodland Healthcare to develop a baseline assessment on the state of nursing care and provide information for continuous improvement of nursing care in Greater Sacramento. | | Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento
Greater Sacramento Journey to Excellence" Grant Program | $20,000 | Apr. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $20,000 | Apr. 2010 |
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For an external Magnet readiness assessment at Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento to develop a baseline assessment of its state of nursing care and provide information for continuous improvement of nursing care in Greater Sacramento. | | University of California, Davis Medical Center
"Greater Sacramento Journey to Excellence" Grant Program | $20,000 | Apr. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $20,000 | Apr. 2010 |
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For an external Magnet readiness assessment for the University of California Davis Medical Center, and development of a baseline assessment on the state of nursing care and information for continuous improvement of nursing care in Greater Sacramento. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 75 mo. | $443,000 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support the development and implementation of an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Awakening and Breathing Coordination, Delirium Monitoring, and Exercise/Early Mobility evidence-based intervention incorporating the management of delirium, sleep, sedation, and mobility, with the goal of significantly reducing ICU mortality and length of stay by June 30, 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 76 mo. | $1,357,000 | Aug. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of California, Davis Medical Center will support the implementation of a hospital-wide program to reduce sepsis (overwhelming bloodstream infection) mortality through evidence-based practices for early identification and treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock. This grant supports the implementation of best practices that will lead to a reduction in sepsis mortality, sustained through 2017. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $550,000 | Jun. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of California, Davis Medical Center will support the medical center to achieve Magnet Designation by December 31, 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $101,000 | Sep. 2010 |
Purpose
For the development of a plan for fully implementing evidence-based practices for the identification and treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock, with the goal of significantly reducing All-Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, and Septic Shock mortality at UC Davis Medical Center. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 87 mo. | $1,200,000 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
For the implementation of a unit-based patient safety infrastructure, through which evidence-based practices for preventing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) at the University of California, Davis Medical Center, and sustaining reduced VAP through 2017. | | Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
Evaluation of Transitional Care Model within Kaiser Northern California | $50,000 | Feb. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $50,000 | Feb. 2010 |
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For the collection and analysis of patient outcome data to determine the effect of the Transitional Care Model program on reducing hospital readmissions at Kaiser San Francisco, Kaiser Hayward/Fremont, and Kaiser Redwood City. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $550,000 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant is to spread operational improvements to the work environment for RNs, increasing both patient satisfaction and RN time spent in the patient room at three Kaiser Greater Sacramento hospitals. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 52 mo. | $5,627,600 | Jul. 2009 |
Purpose
To accelerate a region-wide program to reduce sepsis mortality. The grant will ensure implementation of evidence-based best practices in early identification and treatment of patients with severe sepsis (overwhelming bloodstream infection) that have been shown to reduce sepsis mortality. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 57 mo. | $2,400,000 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
To identify, implement and sustain operational improvements in one San Francisco Bay Area and one Greater Sacramento hospital, with the goal of improving the work environment for medical-surgical registered nurses (RNs) and increasing the time RNs spend on patient care activities and in the patient room. This grant leverages and implements the findings of the "A 36-Hospital Time and Motion Study: How do Medical-Surgical Nurses Spend their Time?" research study co-funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 32 mo. | $663,960 | Mar. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant supports a multi-site study of the Transitional Care Models in three Kaiser hospitals through a partnership between the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. Outcomes include improvement of patient outcomes for approximately 300 high-risk elderly patients and assessment of the improved discharge-planning model. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $176,875 | Aug. 2005 |
Purpose
Kaiser Permanente is using this grant to study the influence of specific nursing workplace variables on acute-care delivery. The results of this three-phase, multi-center project will inform hospitals nationwide of physical and environmental workplace factors impacting the efficiency of nursing care. Outcomes include the study of acute-care workplace variables and the design of an optimal nursing unit. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 3 mo. | $70,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
Under this grant, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, in collaboration with the UC San Francisco School of Nursing, will explore the feasibility of creating an evidence-based nursing care management institute. Outcomes include creation of a plan for establishing an Evidence-Based Nursing Care Management Institute in the Bay Area.
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Transformation to Better, Safer Patient Care | $3,591,000 | Jan. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 96 mo. | $3,591,000 | Jan. 2010 |
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For improved nursing-related patient outcomes in the Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region. Through implementation of evidence-based practices, the project goals are a reduction in severe sepsis and septic shock mortality of non-Do Not Resuscitate patients at five Sutter hospitals, reduction in the percent of patients at one hospital with significantly high or low levels of blood glucose levels while hospitalized, and improved patient safety outcomes through nurse leadership development and the adoption of "Just Culture" principles. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 68 mo. | $2,300,000 | May 2012 |
Purpose
To support the development and implementation of an Intensive Care Unit-Awakening and Breathing Coordination, Delirium Monitoring, and Exercise/Early Mobility intervention; a reduction in the percent of hospitalized patients with significantly high or low blood glucose levels; and development and implementation of an inter-professional team model with the goal of significantly reducing morbidity, mortality, and improving patient outcomes. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 40 mo. | $1,944,905 | Jul. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of spreading the Heart Failure Continuum of Care Model, a highly effective transitional care program aimed at reducing Heart Failure readmissions. Outcomes include a reduction in both 30-day and 90-day readmission rates at Eden Medical Center by at least 30% as compared to the 2009 baseline, and the commitment of at least one additional San Francisco Bay Area Sutter Health hospital to fully implement the Model. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 50 mo. | $2,180,000 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
For the continuation of the Partners Advancing Clinical Excellence (PACE) initiative, in strengthening its efforts to reduce severe sepsis mortality rates at five San Francisco Bay Area Sutter affiliates. This project will lead to three outcomes at each of the five Sutter affiliates: 1) significant reduction in the hospital-wide severe sepsis mortality rate, 2) achievement of an evidence-based target for an additional driver of mortality and/or complications, and 3) maintenance of the improvement gains realized on four Phase I PACE council initiatives through 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $490,000 | Sep. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to Sutter Health is for the development of a comprehensive plan for transforming patient care in its Sacramento Sierra Region hospitals. The plan developed through this grant will provide a roadmap, with specific outcome improvement targets and change models, towards best-in-class inpatient care in the region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 33 mo. | $2,300,000 | Jul. 2007 |
Purpose
Sutter Health System is using this grant to implement and evaluate a Continuum of Care model for congestive heart failure patients in two Sutter Health affiliates in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through the grant, Sutter Health will implement the Continuum of Care model in the Alta Bates and Summit campuses of the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. By providing better coordinated and higher quality of care during and following hospitalization, the project is anticipated to result in improved patient outcomes and lower rates of hospital readmission for advanced heart failure patients. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 86 mo. | $6,171,000 | Jul. 2006 |
Purpose
Sutter Health Systems is using this grant to implement the Transforming Nursing Practice project, a comprehensive program to implement evidence-based practices at the bedside at each of the six Sutter Health acute care hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through the grant, Bay Area Sutter Health affiliates will undertake a multi-site initiative which will leverage individual hospital efforts to significantly improve clinical patient outcomes directly impacted by nursing care. | | Stanford University, School of Medicine
Stanford Simulation-Driven Patient Safety Program | $1,077,000 | Nov. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 33 mo. | $1,077,000 | Nov. 2009 |
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For the development and rollout of an intensive patient safety intervention incorporating frequent, unit-based simulation team training on four medical-surgical units at Stanford Hospital & Clinics. This program will lead to three outcomes: reduction in the incidence rate of at least one hospital-acquired complication per unit, reduction in the rate of unplanned transfers of non-Do Not Resuscitate (non-DNR) patients to a higher level of care, and reduction in the risk-adjusted mortality rate of non-DNR patients. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 42 mo. | $601,424 | Jul. 2012 |
Purpose
In support of the implementation of a transitional care program at Stanford Hospital and Clinics for heart failure patients. The goal of the program will be to achieve and sustain a 30% reduction in the 30-day and a 15% reduction in 90-day all cause readmission rates for patients with heart failure. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $249,745 | Jun. 2012 |
Purpose
In support of a study of how eHealth technology could be used to engage and meet the needs of patients and caregivers who are managing multiple chronic conditions. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 4 mo. | $140,000 | Feb. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to Stanford University, School of Medicine supports the identification and prioritization of specific healthcare quality opportunities for care delivery model redesign, leading to improved quality of care through implementation of these new models. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 41 mo. | $2,446,138 | Sep. 2010 |
Purpose
To investigate how corals resist stress through development of a powerful sea anemone model system and related experiments with corals, sea anemones and the symbiotic algae that reside in them. The funding will be used to enhance researchers' abilities to predict coral resilience by identifying early, reliable signals that result from changing environmental conditions. | | California Institute for Nursing and Healthcare
New Graduate RN Transition Program | $710,000 | Oct. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $710,000 | Oct. 2009 |
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In support of the engagement of 250 new RN graduates from the 5-county San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) schools of nursing to participate in Transition Programs with SFBA healthcare facilities, to better prepare them for nursing jobs. A Request for Proposal grant opportunity will establish regional collaboratives in the SFBA to develop and execute pilot Transition Programs. A network of these collaboratives will facilitate sharing of challenges and best practices and conduct an evaluation of these programs' impact on new RN graduates' ability to further develop their competencies and secure a job upon completion. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $150,000 | Sep. 2010 |
Purpose
For updating the organization's overall strategic plan, by supporting the Executive Director's engagement in activities that clarify the organization's value proposition in light of changing external conditions, and to develop a refined business model, succession plans, and a development plan that are aligned with this confirmed value proposition. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 5 mo. | $50,000 | Aug. 2007 |
Purpose
The California Institute for Nursing & Health Care will use this grant to host the Magic in Teaching II Conference. The one-day continuing education course, designed for nurse educators, mentors, and preceptors in the San Francisco Bay Area, will provide over 400 participants the opportunity to learn about and experience evidence-based teaching and student learning strategies to improve their teaching effectiveness. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $800,000 | May 2007 |
Purpose
The California Institute for Nursing & Health Care will use this grant to organize the Bay Area Simulation Collaborative. The outcomes of this grant will help the Collaborative meet its goal of expanding educational capacity and improving the skills of registered nursing students and practicing nurses in the San Francisco Bay Area through high-fidelity simulation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $851,199 | Feb. 2007 |
Purpose
To develop and implement, in partnership with the California Board of Registered Nursing, an intensive education program for practicing RNs. The program will prepare MSN-level RNs to become clinical instructors, and thereby increase the clinical faculty pool in the five county Bay Area. Additionally, the program will recruit and prepare BSN-level RNs to become assistant instructors that provide consistently higher quality clinical experiences for students studying to become RNs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $259,188 | Jul. 2006 |
Purpose
The California Institute for Nursing and Healthcare is using this grant to develop a white paper that examines the need to redesign nursing education; suggests recommendations for curricula enhancements; defines action steps for implementation of the recommendations; and provides a plan for building broad-based consensus within the nursing education and practice community nationally and in California. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $106,476 | Apr. 2005 |
Purpose
With this grant, the California Institute for Nursing & Healthcare and the Board of Registered Nurses are implementing the first phase of the Consolidated Survey project. Outcomes include the collection and consolidation of all California nursing school data.
| Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $50,000 | Mar. 2005 |
Purpose
The California Institute for Nursing and Healthcare used this grant to develop a supplemental nursing course for new adjunct and part-time nursing faculty in the Bay Area. | | Sutter Health Systems
Partners Advancing Clinical Excellence (PACE) Phase II | $2,180,000 | Oct. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 50 mo. | $2,180,000 | Oct. 2009 |
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For the continuation of the Partners Advancing Clinical Excellence (PACE) initiative, in strengthening its efforts to reduce severe sepsis mortality rates at five San Francisco Bay Area Sutter affiliates. This project will lead to three outcomes at each of the five Sutter affiliates: 1) significant reduction in the hospital-wide severe sepsis mortality rate, 2) achievement of an evidence-based target for an additional driver of mortality and/or complications, and 3) maintenance of the improvement gains realized on four Phase I PACE council initiatives through 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 68 mo. | $2,300,000 | May 2012 |
Purpose
To support the development and implementation of an Intensive Care Unit-Awakening and Breathing Coordination, Delirium Monitoring, and Exercise/Early Mobility intervention; a reduction in the percent of hospitalized patients with significantly high or low blood glucose levels; and development and implementation of an inter-professional team model with the goal of significantly reducing morbidity, mortality, and improving patient outcomes. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 40 mo. | $1,944,905 | Jul. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of spreading the Heart Failure Continuum of Care Model, a highly effective transitional care program aimed at reducing Heart Failure readmissions. Outcomes include a reduction in both 30-day and 90-day readmission rates at Eden Medical Center by at least 30% as compared to the 2009 baseline, and the commitment of at least one additional San Francisco Bay Area Sutter Health hospital to fully implement the Model. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 96 mo. | $3,591,000 | Jan. 2010 |
Purpose
For improved nursing-related patient outcomes in the Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region. Through implementation of evidence-based practices, the project goals are a reduction in severe sepsis and septic shock mortality of non-Do Not Resuscitate patients at five Sutter hospitals, reduction in the percent of patients at one hospital with significantly high or low levels of blood glucose levels while hospitalized, and improved patient safety outcomes through nurse leadership development and the adoption of "Just Culture" principles. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $490,000 | Sep. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to Sutter Health is for the development of a comprehensive plan for transforming patient care in its Sacramento Sierra Region hospitals. The plan developed through this grant will provide a roadmap, with specific outcome improvement targets and change models, towards best-in-class inpatient care in the region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 33 mo. | $2,300,000 | Jul. 2007 |
Purpose
Sutter Health System is using this grant to implement and evaluate a Continuum of Care model for congestive heart failure patients in two Sutter Health affiliates in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through the grant, Sutter Health will implement the Continuum of Care model in the Alta Bates and Summit campuses of the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. By providing better coordinated and higher quality of care during and following hospitalization, the project is anticipated to result in improved patient outcomes and lower rates of hospital readmission for advanced heart failure patients. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 86 mo. | $6,171,000 | Jul. 2006 |
Purpose
Sutter Health Systems is using this grant to implement the Transforming Nursing Practice project, a comprehensive program to implement evidence-based practices at the bedside at each of the six Sutter Health acute care hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through the grant, Bay Area Sutter Health affiliates will undertake a multi-site initiative which will leverage individual hospital efforts to significantly improve clinical patient outcomes directly impacted by nursing care. | | American Association of Colleges of Nursing
San Francisco Bay Area QSEN Institute | $250,000 | Oct. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 35 mo. | $250,000 | Oct. 2009 |
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To develop, implement, and evaluate a 2-day nursing faculty training program focused on teaching 20% of the 10-county San Francisco Bay Area nursing faculty how to incorporate Quality and Safety Education for Nursing competencies into pre-licensure nursing education. Participating faculty will enhance the curricula, and educate and mentor faculty colleagues and students in the teaching of quality and safety concepts. The impact of this institute will be evaluated during the two years following the faculty training session. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $386,000 | Apr. 2011 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing is to incorporate representatives from the 10-county San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) hospitals in the Quality and Safety Education for Nursing curriculum enhancement efforts underway with the SFBA schools of nursing and to implement a rigorous evaluation of these curriculum enhancement efforts. | | San Francisco General Hospital Foundation
Magnet Readiness Program | $90,000 | Sep. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 40 mo. | $90,000 | Sep. 2009 |
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This grant supports a Magnet Readiness Program at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH), including: 1) developing a strategy and framework for nursing-led research; 2) facilitating the enculturation of the SFGH professional practice model and strengthening shared governance through a transformational leadership program for nursing managers and directors; 3) supporting certification of medical-surgical nurses and increasing the number of nurses certified and 4) providing a follow-on Magnet readiness assessment to gauge progress along the Magnet Journey. This program will lead to the outcome of increased Magnet readiness at SFGH. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 46 mo. | $4,035,764 | Sep. 2008 |
Purpose
For the development, implementation and evaluation of a new transitional care program at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), with the goal of improving outcomes for 65 year old patients through a better designed transition from hospital to home. By providing better coordinated and higher quality of care during and following hospitalization, the project is anticipated to result in lower rates of hospital readmission for elderly patients discharged from SFGH. The impact of the transitional care program supported by this grant will be documented through an evaluation and cost-benefit analysis which will be disseminated through publication and/or presentation at a national meeting. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $75,000 | Jun. 2005 |
Purpose
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation is using this grant to implement the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100K Lives Campaign, a national initiative to implement six scientifically-based clinical interventions that address leading sources of mortality and complications within hospitals. Outcomes include implementation of Campaign interventions, participation in a Regional Hospital Collaborative on Patient Safety, and communication of aggregate mortality data to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,341,450 | Sep. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant allows San Francisco General Hospital to develop a program to better prepare associate-degree (ADN) and foreign-trained nurses for specialized clinical practice. Outcomes include improvement of RN retention, reduction of RN vacancy rates, and enhancement of clinical and critical thinking skills among newly hired ADNs and foreign-trained RNs. | | Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
Kaiser Foundation Sepsis Mortality Reduction | $5,627,600 | Jul. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 52 mo. | $5,627,600 | Jul. 2009 |
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To accelerate a region-wide program to reduce sepsis mortality. The grant will ensure implementation of evidence-based best practices in early identification and treatment of patients with severe sepsis (overwhelming bloodstream infection) that have been shown to reduce sepsis mortality. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $550,000 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant is to spread operational improvements to the work environment for RNs, increasing both patient satisfaction and RN time spent in the patient room at three Kaiser Greater Sacramento hospitals. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $50,000 | Feb. 2010 |
Purpose
For the collection and analysis of patient outcome data to determine the effect of the Transitional Care Model program on reducing hospital readmissions at Kaiser San Francisco, Kaiser Hayward/Fremont, and Kaiser Redwood City. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 57 mo. | $2,400,000 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
To identify, implement and sustain operational improvements in one San Francisco Bay Area and one Greater Sacramento hospital, with the goal of improving the work environment for medical-surgical registered nurses (RNs) and increasing the time RNs spend on patient care activities and in the patient room. This grant leverages and implements the findings of the "A 36-Hospital Time and Motion Study: How do Medical-Surgical Nurses Spend their Time?" research study co-funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 32 mo. | $663,960 | Mar. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant supports a multi-site study of the Transitional Care Models in three Kaiser hospitals through a partnership between the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. Outcomes include improvement of patient outcomes for approximately 300 high-risk elderly patients and assessment of the improved discharge-planning model. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $176,875 | Aug. 2005 |
Purpose
Kaiser Permanente is using this grant to study the influence of specific nursing workplace variables on acute-care delivery. The results of this three-phase, multi-center project will inform hospitals nationwide of physical and environmental workplace factors impacting the efficiency of nursing care. Outcomes include the study of acute-care workplace variables and the design of an optimal nursing unit. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 3 mo. | $70,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
Under this grant, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, in collaboration with the UC San Francisco School of Nursing, will explore the feasibility of creating an evidence-based nursing care management institute. Outcomes include creation of a plan for establishing an Evidence-Based Nursing Care Management Institute in the Bay Area.
| | Catholic Healthcare West
Comprehensive Plan for Reduction of Mortality and Hospital Acquired Conditions in Nine Acute Care Facilities across Catholic Healthcare West | $628,525 | Jun. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $628,525 | Jun. 2009 |
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Catholic Healthcare West will use this grant to develop a Comprehensive Transformation Plan to create and implement a best practice model to reduce risk-adjusted inpatient mortality by 20% and select complications by 20% (over baseline 2004) by January 2013, with a X% reduction in risk-adjusted inpatient mortality between 2010 and 2013, across 9 CHW BIMNI acute care hospitals in Sacramento and the Bay Area region. The final output of this grant will be the Comprehensive Transformation Plan, complete with key interventions identified to reduce overall mortality and an inter-professional team educated and prepared to implement the plan. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 82 mo. | $3,900,000 | Feb. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to Catholic Healthcare West will support improved nursing-related patient outcomes across nine hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Sacramento regions. Through the implementation of evidence-based practices, this grant will lead to improved glycemic control and safety, a reduction in the incidence of preventable hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism, and a reduction in mortality among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications. All outcomes will be achieved by the end of 2013 and are to be sustained through 2017. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $1,776,000 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
In support of implementing best practices for early identification and treatment of severe sepsis at Catholic Healthcare West's San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Sacramento hospitals, with the goal of reducing its aggregate severe sepsis mortality rate by 20% and sustaining this improved rate over time. | | California Pacific Medical Center
Growing the Nurse Middle Manager | $426,750 | Nov. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 41 mo. | $426,750 | Nov. 2008 |
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To develop, pilot, and evaluate the impact of a targeted, year-long Middle Manager Development Program to advance the leadership and management competencies of nurse middle managers. Through the implementation of two pilots, at least 28 participants will complete the year-long management development program, and a thorough evaluation of the program's impact on key outcomes will be conducted. Broad dissemination of the evaluation findings and program structure will enable other hospitals to benefit from the lessons learned by testing this new model of middle manager development. | | Stanford University, Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research
Preventable Readmissions Analysis | $325,000 | Oct. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 38 mo. | $325,000 | Oct. 2008 |
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In support of Stanford University Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research for research to understand potentially preventable readmissions in San Francisco Bay Area adult acute care hospitals and the relationship between potentially preventable readmissions and other hospital quality indicators. | | Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Plan for developing, implementing and evaluating a Patient Surveillance System at Stanford Hospital & Clinics | $75,000 | Oct. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $75,000 | Oct. 2008 |
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The purpose of this grant to Stanford Hospital & Clinics ("Stanford Hospital") is to support the planning required to develop a patient surveillance system that can proactively identify patients at risk for significant clinical deterioration. The output of this grant will be a proposal, including timeline and budget, to implement and evaluate a patient surveillance system. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $165,000 | May 2010 |
Purpose
For the application for Magnet re-designation, leading to re-designation by December 31, 2011. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $75,000 | Jun. 2005 |
Purpose
Stanford Hospital and Clinics is using this grant to implement the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100K Lives Campaign, a national initiative to implement six scientifically-based clinical interventions that address leading sources of mortality and complications within hospitals. Outcomes include implementation of Campaign interventions, participation in a Regional Hospital Collaborative on Patient Safety, and communication of aggregate mortality data to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. | | Catholic Healthcare West
San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Sacramento Severe Sepsis Improvement Program | $1,776,000 | Oct. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $1,776,000 | Oct. 2008 |
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In support of implementing best practices for early identification and treatment of severe sepsis at Catholic Healthcare West's San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Sacramento hospitals, with the goal of reducing its aggregate severe sepsis mortality rate by 20% and sustaining this improved rate over time. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 82 mo. | $3,900,000 | Feb. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to Catholic Healthcare West will support improved nursing-related patient outcomes across nine hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Sacramento regions. Through the implementation of evidence-based practices, this grant will lead to improved glycemic control and safety, a reduction in the incidence of preventable hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism, and a reduction in mortality among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications. All outcomes will be achieved by the end of 2013 and are to be sustained through 2017. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $628,525 | Jun. 2009 |
Purpose
Catholic Healthcare West will use this grant to develop a Comprehensive Transformation Plan to create and implement a best practice model to reduce risk-adjusted inpatient mortality by 20% and select complications by 20% (over baseline 2004) by January 2013, with a X% reduction in risk-adjusted inpatient mortality between 2010 and 2013, across 9 CHW BIMNI acute care hospitals in Sacramento and the Bay Area region. The final output of this grant will be the Comprehensive Transformation Plan, complete with key interventions identified to reduce overall mortality and an inter-professional team educated and prepared to implement the plan. | | San Francisco State University, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
Advancing the Practice of Nursing: On-site Master’s in Nursing Cohort Program | $450,486 | Oct. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 34 mo. | $450,486 | Oct. 2008 |
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For expanding the On-site Masters in Nursing Cohort Program at Stanford Hospitals & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital ("Stanford/Packard"), to enable graduation of an additional eighteen MSN students employed at Stanford/Packard and other San Francisco Bay Area hospitals. This grant will also support an evaluation of the current program and a study to assess the feasibility and opportunity for additional on-site Master's in Nursing programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. | | Center for Quality Systems Improvement
Defining the Link Between High Patient Volume and Patient Safety | $350,000 | Oct. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $350,000 | Oct. 2008 |
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For research in two to three San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) hospitals on the impact of high patient volume days on the increased likelihood of preventable patient harm. The research will identify high patient volume points at which patient harm is significantly more likely to occur. Following identification of these points, an actionable program for SFBA hospitals will be developed and piloted with the goal of reducing preventable harm during high volume days in at least three SFBA hospitals. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 23 mo. | $896,720 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant is to continue a successful transitions of care learning collaborative in which Northern California hospitals and their outpatient partners (physician practices, home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, and others) share best practices with the common goals of improving the quality of transition from hospital to home and reducing unnecessary hospital readmissions. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 21 mo. | $1,357,000 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Center for Quality Systems Improvement (CQSI) to offer two targeted clinical impact interest groups, quality improvement education, and on-site support to hospitals working on improving patient outcomes. The grant outcomes are the achievement of evidence-based patient safety and quality improvement targets by hospitals participating in the two clinical impact interest groups, as well as the enhancement of clinical improvement leadership skills for at least 350 healthcare providers. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 41 mo. | $959,000 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of creating a Readmissions Learning Community in which hospitals and their outpatient provider partners confirm and share evidence-based practices shown to reduce hospital readmissions. The outputs of the grant include participation by at least 50% of the 5-county San Francisco Bay Area hospitals, and the collaborative development of detailed plans to implement evidence-based practices, each designed to reduce 30- and 90-day hospital readmission rates by at least 30% by December 31, 2013. | | Institute for Healthcare Improvement
San Francisco Bay Area Patient Flow Seminar | $321,250 | Oct. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $321,250 | Oct. 2008 |
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The purpose of this grant to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is to hold an IHI seminar entitled "Cracking the Code to Hospital-Wide Patient Flow" in the San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA). The seminar, which will be attended by staff of SFBA and/or Greater Sacramento hospitals, will educate the participants in the principles and best practices to improve patient flow. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $285,819 | Aug. 2008 |
Purpose
To assist up to four Bay Area adult acute care hospitals to optimize their discharge planning processes for elderly Heart Failure patients in the "Heart Failure Discharge Planning Collaborative Program." Providing better coordination and higher quality of care during hospitalization and at discharge will improve patient outcomes as measured by lower rates of hospital readmission for elderly Heart Failure patients. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 4 mo. | $150,000 | Oct. 2005 |
Purpose
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement used this grant to provide Breakthrough Series College training to Bay Area hospitals. Approximately 25 participants from the Bay Area Patient Safety Collaborative and the UCSF Culture Collaborative attended the three-day session. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 28 mo. | $400,000 | May 2005 |
Purpose
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is using this grant to implement its 100K Lives Campaign, which is aimed at saving 100,000 lives nationally. Through the Campaign, IHI is motivating and supporting hospitals in implementing six proven clinical interventions that address leading sources of mortality and complications within acute care hospitals. Outcomes include delivery of Campaign services to, and the report of mortality data for, 15 to 20 participating Bay Area hospitals. | | Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
Destination Great: San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Sacramento Hospital Pilots | $2,400,000 | Oct. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 57 mo. | $2,400,000 | Oct. 2008 |
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To identify, implement and sustain operational improvements in one San Francisco Bay Area and one Greater Sacramento hospital, with the goal of improving the work environment for medical-surgical registered nurses (RNs) and increasing the time RNs spend on patient care activities and in the patient room. This grant leverages and implements the findings of the "A 36-Hospital Time and Motion Study: How do Medical-Surgical Nurses Spend their Time?" research study co-funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $550,000 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant is to spread operational improvements to the work environment for RNs, increasing both patient satisfaction and RN time spent in the patient room at three Kaiser Greater Sacramento hospitals. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $50,000 | Feb. 2010 |
Purpose
For the collection and analysis of patient outcome data to determine the effect of the Transitional Care Model program on reducing hospital readmissions at Kaiser San Francisco, Kaiser Hayward/Fremont, and Kaiser Redwood City. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 52 mo. | $5,627,600 | Jul. 2009 |
Purpose
To accelerate a region-wide program to reduce sepsis mortality. The grant will ensure implementation of evidence-based best practices in early identification and treatment of patients with severe sepsis (overwhelming bloodstream infection) that have been shown to reduce sepsis mortality. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 32 mo. | $663,960 | Mar. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant supports a multi-site study of the Transitional Care Models in three Kaiser hospitals through a partnership between the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. Outcomes include improvement of patient outcomes for approximately 300 high-risk elderly patients and assessment of the improved discharge-planning model. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $176,875 | Aug. 2005 |
Purpose
Kaiser Permanente is using this grant to study the influence of specific nursing workplace variables on acute-care delivery. The results of this three-phase, multi-center project will inform hospitals nationwide of physical and environmental workplace factors impacting the efficiency of nursing care. Outcomes include the study of acute-care workplace variables and the design of an optimal nursing unit. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 3 mo. | $70,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
Under this grant, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, in collaboration with the UC San Francisco School of Nursing, will explore the feasibility of creating an evidence-based nursing care management institute. Outcomes include creation of a plan for establishing an Evidence-Based Nursing Care Management Institute in the Bay Area.
| | Alameda County Medical Center
ACMC Critical Thinking (ACT) for Nursing | $752,000 | Sep. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 64 mo. | $752,000 | Sep. 2008 |
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To reduce hospital-wide severe sepsis mortality rates. Outcomes will be achieved by participation in the Integrated Nurse Leadership Program's severe sepsis mortality initiative in collaboration with other Bay Area hospitals to reduce severe sepsis mortality rates, rollout of 24/7 Rapid Response Teams to increase early identification and response to deterioration on step-down and medical-surgical units, and implementation of the California Nurses Foundation Nurse-to-Nurse mentorship/preceptorship program to increase the preparedness of new and existing RNs in the Emergency Department and all inpatient units. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 47 mo. | $690,926 | Apr. 2012 |
Purpose
For implementation of a transitional care program at Highland Hospital aimed at reducing the 30-day all cause readmission rate by at least 30% and the 90-day all cause readmission rate by at least 15% for high risk patients compared to a 2010 baseline. | | University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing
Evaluation of Faculty Supply Impact on Educational Expansion in Bay Area | $201,000 | Sep. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $201,000 | Sep. 2008 |
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The University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing is using this grant to evaluate the impact of the increased number of faculty produced in the Bay Area on educational expansion in Bay Area schools of nursing. In addition to assessing the quantitative impact of new faculty on nursing school capacity, the study supported by this grant will assess exactly how the new faculty members have played a role in enrollment growth, whether the new faculty members are likely to remain in teaching positions, and how they are affecting student success. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $57,872 | Feb. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, supports the over-sampling, extraction and data analysis of the California Board of Registered Nursing Survey of Registered Nurses in the five-county San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Sacramento regions with the intent of comparing results with previous studies. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 37 mo. | $160,680 | Oct. 2005 |
Purpose
UCSF's School of Nursing is using this grant to evaluate the impact of the Centralized Clinical Placement System (CCPS) and Centralized Faculty Resource Center (CFRC). Outcomes include development and evaluation of report card measures and the impact of CCPS and CFRC on Bay Area educational capacity. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,985,781 | May 2005 |
Purpose
UCSF is using this grant to pilot interventions to develop a culture of patient safety in model hospital units. In partnership with Kaiser Permanente-San Francisco, El Camino Hospital, and UCSF Medical Center, UCSF will identify and implement specific interventions to improve patient safety and, ultimately, patient outcomes in Bay Area hospitals. Outcomes include the measurement of improvement in patient safety culture and one to two patient outcomes in three Bay Area hospitals. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $769,818 | Mar. 2005 |
Purpose
The California Nursing Outcomes Coalition's (CalNOC) is using this grant to develop and capture comparable quality-of-care indicators across target, acute-care hospitals within the five Bay Area counties: Alameda, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara. CalNOC's collaboration is part of a broader project focused on measuring the quality of nursing care and its impact on patient outcomes throughout California. Outcomes include the incorporation of "Medication Administration" and "Central-line Associated Blood Stream Infection" patient outcomes indicators into core indicators for 95% of target hospitals, the pilot of new patient outcome indicators (urinary tract infections and ventilator associated pneumonia), and the alignment of CalNOC with emerging regional and national patient outcomes measurement initiatives. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 120 mo. | $7,804,000 | Jul. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant provides additional funding for UCSF's Accelerated Doctoral Program in Nursing. Outcomes include the addition of 32 PhD nursing faculty members. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $1,427,817 | Mar. 2004 |
Purpose
UCSF, in partnership with the California Nursing Outcomes Coalition, is using this grant to a establish baseline measurement of nursing care and to provide ongoing measurement and evaluation of the Foundation's Nursing initiative. Outcomes include the expansion of the dataset from 50 target hospitals, the increase of patient outcome data, enhancement of data management, and the addition patient outcome indicators. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,072,400 | Mar. 2004 |
Purpose
With this grant, UCSF is recruiting and funding fellows for its doctoral nursing program. Outcomes include the addition of 10 PhD nursing faculty to the Bay Area. | | San Francisco General Hospital Foundation
San Francisco General Hospital Support from Hospital to Home for the Elderly (SHHE) | $4,035,764 | Sep. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 46 mo. | $4,035,764 | Sep. 2008 |
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For the development, implementation and evaluation of a new transitional care program at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), with the goal of improving outcomes for 65 year old patients through a better designed transition from hospital to home. By providing better coordinated and higher quality of care during and following hospitalization, the project is anticipated to result in lower rates of hospital readmission for elderly patients discharged from SFGH. The impact of the transitional care program supported by this grant will be documented through an evaluation and cost-benefit analysis which will be disseminated through publication and/or presentation at a national meeting. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 40 mo. | $90,000 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant supports a Magnet Readiness Program at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH), including: 1) developing a strategy and framework for nursing-led research; 2) facilitating the enculturation of the SFGH professional practice model and strengthening shared governance through a transformational leadership program for nursing managers and directors; 3) supporting certification of medical-surgical nurses and increasing the number of nurses certified and 4) providing a follow-on Magnet readiness assessment to gauge progress along the Magnet Journey. This program will lead to the outcome of increased Magnet readiness at SFGH. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $75,000 | Jun. 2005 |
Purpose
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation is using this grant to implement the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100K Lives Campaign, a national initiative to implement six scientifically-based clinical interventions that address leading sources of mortality and complications within hospitals. Outcomes include implementation of Campaign interventions, participation in a Regional Hospital Collaborative on Patient Safety, and communication of aggregate mortality data to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,341,450 | Sep. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant allows San Francisco General Hospital to develop a program to better prepare associate-degree (ADN) and foreign-trained nurses for specialized clinical practice. Outcomes include improvement of RN retention, reduction of RN vacancy rates, and enhancement of clinical and critical thinking skills among newly hired ADNs and foreign-trained RNs. | | Chinese Hospital
Heart Failure Discharge Planning Collaborative Program | $520,830 | Sep. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $520,830 | Sep. 2008 |
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To involve Chinese Hospital in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Transforming Care at the Bedside Program to optimize the discharge planning process for fragile elders with Congestive Heart Failure. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $30,000 | Jun. 2005 |
Purpose
Chinese Hospital is using this grant to implement the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100K Lives Campaign, a national initiative to implement six scientifically-based clinical interventions that address leading sources of mortality and complications within hospitals. Outcomes include implementation of Campaign interventions, participation in a Regional Hospital Collaborative on Patient Safety, and communication of aggregate mortality data to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. | | St. Mary's Medical Center
Heart Failure Discharge Planning Collaborative Program | $513,389 | Sep. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $513,389 | Sep. 2008 |
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To involve St. Mary's Hospital with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Transforming Care at the Bedside Program to optimize the discharge planning process for fragile elders with Congestive Heart Failure. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $20,000 | Jun. 2005 |
Purpose
St. Mary's Medical Center is using this grant to implement the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100K Lives Campaign, a national initiative to implement six scientifically-based clinical interventions that address leading sources of mortality and complications within hospitals. Outcomes include implementation of Campaign interventions, participation in a Regional Hospital Collaborative on Patient Safety, and communication of aggregate mortality data to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. | | UCSF Medical Center
Heart Failure Discharge Planning Collaborative Program | $575,000 | Sep. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $575,000 | Sep. 2008 |
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To involve University of California, San Francisco Medical Center with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Transforming Care at the Bedside Program to optimize the discharge planning process for fragile elders with Congestive Heart Failure. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $550,000 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
For a Magnet Readiness program at the University of California, San Francisco (USCF) Medical Center, including the improvement of nursing-related patient outcomes to levels meeting or exceeding Magnet benchmarks. This program will lead to the outcomes of a reduction in the hospital-wide Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcer rate, a reduction in the hospital-wide Central Line Blood Stream Infection rate, and submission of UCSF's Magnet application by July 15, 2012. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $75,000 | Jun. 2005 |
Purpose
UCSF Medical Center is using this grant to implement the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100K Lives Campaign, a national initiative to implement six scientifically-based clinical interventions that address leading sources of mortality and complications within hospitals. Outcomes include implementation of Campaign interventions, participation in a Regional Hospital Collaborative on Patient Safety, and communication of aggregate mortality data to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. | | ValleyCare Health System
Heart Failure Discharge Planning Collaborative Program | $574,380 | Sep. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $574,380 | Sep. 2008 |
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To involve ValleyCare Health System with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, ?Transforming Care at the Bedside Program to optimize the discharge planning process for fragile elders with Congestive Heart Failure. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 21 mo. | $134,000 | Feb. 2012 |
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This grant will support ValleyCare Health System’s Magnet Journey, leading to the submission of its completed Magnet documentation, and Magnet designation by December 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 19 mo. | $32,000 | Aug. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support ValleyCare Health System’s Magnet Journey, leading to the submission of its Magnet application, completed Magnet documentation, and Magnet designation by March 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $939,000 | Aug. 2010 |
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In support of the purchase, installation, and implementation of bar-coding technology in ValleyCare Health System's Pleasanton campus, with the goal of significantly reducing medication administration errors in all adult inpatient units by December 31st, 2012. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $40,000 | Sep. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant will support an external gap analysis, action plans, and submission of ValleyCare Health System’s Magnet Application. The grant will assist ValleyCare Health System in their Magnet Designation Journey and will lead to continuous improvement of nursing care at ValleyCare. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $75,000 | Jun. 2005 |
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