November 2017

Eight Tennessee teams from 4 hospitals were spotlighted for their improvement work at the recent VON conference in Chicago:

Antibiotic Stewardship -- Jackson Madison County General Hospital, Regional One Medical Center & Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital.  Sharon Wadley and Ajay Talati (see pictures above) were elevated to round table presenters for their team's work.

Care of the Micro Premature Infant -- Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women

Airway challenges -- Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital

Nutrition -- Regional One Medical Center

Non-Routine Events -- Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hopsital

Alarm Burden -- Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital

Congratulations to all the teams for their hard work!  We hope to see your posters at the TIPQC Annual Meeting this Spring!

TIPQC Recruiting Medical Directors Elect.

Interested applicants should submit the following materials by December 30, 2017: current CV/Resume, letter of intent outlining relevant credentials, a letter of support from a TIPQC member, and letter of support from institution (stating that the applicant has support of the Department Chair to spend .2 FTE for both of the two years spent as Medical Director), and ideas/drafts of project proposals, if applicable.  Contact Brenda Barker for more information.

Notes from the Medical Director...

From TIPQC’s Maternal arm there is a lot of “behind the scenes” work going on right now as we continued to determine the project we roll out in March.  Regarding LARC....I am incredibly grateful to Tenncare, The 3 MCO’s, and THA for all the work that was done to move forward the policy change that will make it possible to get paid for contraceptive implants and intrauterine devices during the delivery admission starting 11/2/2017. Although the policy change was challenging making this option available to the women of Tennessee, the implementation piece as been no cake walk either. At UTMCK we have been working on the process for a couple of months anticipating the policy change and I am hopeful we will be ready, but there are still numerous people to train and some logistics to work out. If you are interested in having this option available at your institution I encourage you to visit the ACOG LARC website and utilize the Immediate Postpartum resources. The project committee is meeting soon…so keep an eye out for an update.  Nikki Zite, MD