33 min
Best Practices: Team Huddles Best Practices
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- Health & Fitness
Siloam Health faced the hurdle of improving efficiency and effectiveness of the patient flow process. Claire Reagan, Nurse Manager at Siloam Health in Nashville, TN, joined Dr. Thomas Spain, primary care physician and Director of Practice Transformation at the Midsouth Practice Transformation Network, and Kirkland Ahern-Jones, Director of Operations for the Midsouth PTN, to discuss the effort the practice made to implement team huddles and the difference huddles made in the practice’s workflow and experience as part of their TCPI work.
By initiating a clinical team huddle, Siloam Health moved to the next level of team based care. Taking the time to establish the huddle habit and to encourage providers to collaborate about patient care, Siloam Health improved both the team and the patients’ experiences and further developed relationships between patients and the entire team.
Team huddles led to a 20% improvement in colon cancer screening over baseline, moving the practice performance above the national MIPS benchmark in just 18 months. The practice improved dramatically on mammogram screenings, showed a 15% over baseline in administration of Pneumovax to elderly and diabetic populations, and better incorporated behavioral health in patient care. With the implementation of daily huddles, Siloam Health is able to work as a more organized team to serve each patient’s unique needs.
Podcast Episode Resources
To learn more about the resources referenced in this episode, please see the following links:
CMS: https://www.cms.gov/
TCPI: https://tinyurl.com/tcpi19
MidSouthPTN: https://midsouthptn.com/
Siloam Health: https://siloamhealth.org/
Team/Daily Practice Huddles: https://tinyurl.com/dailypracticehuddles
MidSouthPTN YouTube Channel:
Siloam Health faced the hurdle of improving efficiency and effectiveness of the patient flow process. Claire Reagan, Nurse Manager at Siloam Health in Nashville, TN, joined Dr. Thomas Spain, primary care physician and Director of Practice Transformation at the Midsouth Practice Transformation Network, and Kirkland Ahern-Jones, Director of Operations for the Midsouth PTN, to discuss the effort the practice made to implement team huddles and the difference huddles made in the practice’s workflow and experience as part of their TCPI work.
By initiating a clinical team huddle, Siloam Health moved to the next level of team based care. Taking the time to establish the huddle habit and to encourage providers to collaborate about patient care, Siloam Health improved both the team and the patients’ experiences and further developed relationships between patients and the entire team.
Team huddles led to a 20% improvement in colon cancer screening over baseline, moving the practice performance above the national MIPS benchmark in just 18 months. The practice improved dramatically on mammogram screenings, showed a 15% over baseline in administration of Pneumovax to elderly and diabetic populations, and better incorporated behavioral health in patient care. With the implementation of daily huddles, Siloam Health is able to work as a more organized team to serve each patient’s unique needs.
Podcast Episode Resources
To learn more about the resources referenced in this episode, please see the following links:
CMS: https://www.cms.gov/
TCPI: https://tinyurl.com/tcpi19
MidSouthPTN: https://midsouthptn.com/
Siloam Health: https://siloamhealth.org/
Team/Daily Practice Huddles: https://tinyurl.com/dailypracticehuddles
MidSouthPTN YouTube Channel:
33 min