Texas Children’s celebrates notable milestones at 2016 Quality Day event

October 4, 2016

10516qualityday640On September 16, more than 50 projects were featured at the 2016 Texas Children’s Quality Day event, “Leading Tirelessly, Always Improving: Celebrating Quality, Safety, and Process Improvement Innovations at Texas Children’s and Advanced Quality Improvement (AQI) 14 Graduation.”

Held at Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women Conference Center, this special day was organized by the Quality Education Team and other Texas Children’s quality leaders. The event included presentations on exciting improvement initiatives implemented by the graduates of the AQI 14 class and showcased the many improvement projects/programs developed by staff and leaders across the organization.

“I am truly amazed and inspired to work with such a talented organization,” said Dana Danaher, director of Quality Education, Collaboratives and Advocacy at Texas Children’s. “I am privileged to facilitate building ongoing improvement capability for long-term sustainability.”

Chief Quality Officer Angelo Giardino kicked off the event with an inspirational keynote to the audience of more than 80 attendees. In recognition of the Daily Operational Briefing (DOB), a culture-changing safety practice adopted by Texas Children’s in November 2015, he presented a special quality award to Dr. Lane Donnelly, Dr. Joan Shook and recently retired Texas Children’s COO Randy Wright for their leadership in supporting the implementation of the DOB.

Following this motivational opening, the recent graduates of the AQI program presented their projects. Examples of some of the improvements discussed included:

  • MyChart activation
  • Discharge readiness
  • Improving isolation compliance
  • Postpartum depression screening
  • Reduction of medication re-dispenses

With more than 400 AQI graduates trained over the seven years that Texas Children’s has offered this valuable education, Giardino says Texas Children’s has great capacity to continue leading tirelessly to improve quality.

“The privilege of getting this training comes with a responsibility to use this new knowledge and the skills to do quality improvements to make things better for the women and children that we seek to serve,” Giardino said.