Clinical Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
Project focus: Improve patient access and expand efforts in population health by creating co-management teams of APPs and physicians to promote continuinty, maintain patient satisfaction, and enhance the patient medical home.
Addiction Medicine Clinical Operations Manager, Psychiatry
Project focus: Create and implement a formalized patient, family, and clinic leader rounding program to ensure patients understand the plan of care and improve the patient/family experience.
Lead COPE Chaplain, Office of Patient Experience
Project focus: Expand peer support training to multiple departments at UIHC to improve patient outcomes and increase employee retention.
Epic Cogito Team Lead, HCIS
Project focus: Curate and market a CDA-level portf+A3:G5olio of Epic Cogito dashboards. This will allow CDAs or their delegates to pull data at-will, saving time for both them and the Enterprise Analytics team.
Senior Engineering Associate, Radiology
Project focus: Development of a POCUS (Point of Care Ultrasound) program. This initiative is to ensure clinicians at UIHC utilize Radiology Engineering with all future purchasing, onboarding, networking, and evaluation of new equipment. This endeavor will allow for an enterprise-wide expansion of our POCUS program.
Compliance Specialist, JOC
Project focus: Develop a formal onboarding and termination checklist for the Joint Office of Compliance.
Administrative Fellow, Hospital Administration
Project focus: Optimization of Courier Services among UIHC sites.
Clinical Supervisor, Rehab Therapies
Project focus: Transform our acute care delivery to a shared-space, de-centralized model by better understanding space usage and redesigning acute care workflows to impact access to care, efficiency, employee engagement and patient outcomes.
Rehab Therapies and Clinical Operations Manager, CDD
Project focus: Increase access to autism referrals for families with children who are suspected of having autism by streamlining the referral process and reducing waiting times for families seeking a diagnosis, thereby improving the chances of early intervention and better outcomes for the child.
HVAC Manager, Engineering Services
Project focus: Replace refrigeration and freezer temperature monitoring system to be more user friendly and resolve communication issues. This system is designed to monitor temperatures for joint commission compliance as well as alert department staff if product is not being stored at the correct temperature.
Executive Service Line Director, Office of the CMO
Project Focus: Through Better Teamwork, Better Care's Inpatient Throughput Workgroup, evaluate opportunity to reduce excess days for a specific clinical variation outlier related to a DRG, procedure, or specific service.
Nurse Manager, Organ Transplant Center
Project focus: Identify potential barriers to decreasing kidney transplant recipient length of stay, and work with the team to find solutions to rectify barriers for patient discharge.
Associate Director, Safety and Security
Project focus: Continue to enhance our teamwork to develop safety-related programs that will work in establishing a successful crime prevention program, provide safety and awareness for the staff of the hospital, and reduce criminal activity.
Hospitalist ARNP, CVICU Surgical/Critical Care
Project focus: Create a business plan for adding APP coverage from 1900-0630 to CVICU to allow 24/7 in-house coverage including analysis of financial and safety benefits, improvement in work environment and load for medical team, and eliminate resident work hour violations.
Nurse Scientist, Nursing Services
Project focus: Analysis of implementation adoption and sustainability of evidence-based fall prevention practices to critically appraise successes, gaps, and next steps.
Administrative Fellow, University of Iowa Physicians (UIP)
Project focus: Implementing ‘On My Way’ software to ease planning and increase access for patients with emergent healthcare needs.
Physician Assistant, Sports Medicine
Project focus: Implementation of a Department of Corrections (DOC) EConsult with UI Orthopedics will improve access to Quality Health Care for the DOC patient; Implement a triage process for Orthopedic DOC patients' complaints and reduce transportation cost for IDOC by reducing unnecessary in-person clinic visits by maximizing E-Consult / triage capabilities.
Senior Business Analyst, Internal Medicine
Project focus: Evaluate workflow and data of the UI Consult Line related to specialties with Internal Medicine to gain recognition for provider efforts at the institutional level as well as reimbursements for this care, likely through Professional Service Agreements (PSA) contracts for institutions utilizing this service at a high rate
Clinic Services Coordinator, Neurology
Project focus: Create a 13-month rolling inpatient schedule for all Neurology inpatient services to improve patient access and overall satisfaction within the department of Neurology.
Communications Specialist, Internal Medicine
Project focus: Create a central, digital space for all communicators across UI Health Care to access that comprehensively lists the tools, resources, processes, and contact information for a person in such a position to be successful.
Division Administrator, Internal Medicine
Project focus: Creating a 360, multi-disciplinary evaluation process for new providers for team-based collaboration, continuous education, and the opportunity to connect with program leadership face-to-face.
Assistant Department Director, Heart Center
Project focus: Implement new Epic Cupid functionality that will allow structured echo reporting to improve communication, billing and charging processes, standardization, and reporting and analytics within Epic for the Heart and Vascular Center and across UIHC.
Senior Physical Therapist, Rehab Therapies
Project focus: Establish an appropriate neurodevelopment assessment protocol to regularly assess our long-term pediatric patient's neurodevelopmental progression.
Governance Specialist, Hospital Administration
Project focus: Implement most recently approved by‐laws to enable our governance structure (the Clinical Systems Committee, as well as its subcommittees and working groups) to operate effectively and efficiently, while improving the flow of information to members.
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Pharmacy
Project focus: Develop a request for succession planning and need for additional FTE within the Drug Policy/Drug Information Center.
Education Office Coordinator, Anesthesia
Project focus: Develop an onboarding program for new residency and fellowship coordinators across the health care enterprise.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Surgery
Project focus: Establishing a patient centered clinical care protocol for geriatric acute care and trauma surgery patients to improve patient outcomes.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Project focus: Optimizing the UIHC Psychiatry Consult Service through multidisciplinary, proactive, and population based health care.
Education Coordinator, Surgery
Project focus: Assess equity among program coordinators in the Graduate Medical Education at Iowa to create a pathway for career advancement. This will reduce turnover, increase retentation and overall job satisfaction.
Nurse Manager, Labor and Delivery
Project focus: Implement evidence-based strategies on LDR, 3JPP and 6JPP to create a healthy work environment for the interdisciplinary teams.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
Project focus: Create a Cardio-Obstetrics clinic that will employ a comprehensive team approach to (1) evaluate and counsel women of childbearing age at risk for / currently has cardiovascular disease regarding maternal and fetal risks of pregnancy; (2) optimize medical and surgical interventions for high-risk pregnant patients and; (3) provide continuity of care from the cardiac perspective postpartum to enable the mother to best care for herself and her child.
Qual & Op Improv Engineer, Quality Improvement Program
Project focus: Reduce inappropriate urine culturing practices in patients with indwelling urinary catheter through diagnostic stewardship.
Revenue Cycle Coordinator, Patient Financial Services
Project focus: Test and develop various ways to keep teams close and connected in the remote workplace.
Nursing Practice Leader, Nursing Services
Project focus: Review clinical ladder programs for ambulatory and perioperative nurses to get ideas for improvement for our Professional Recognition Program.
Assistant Director, Application Services, HCIS
Project focus: Improve clinical workflows by increasing mobility through the use of Epic Rover.
Patient Access Manager, Patient Access Center
Project focus: PAC supported outpatient groups will work collaboratively to create department specific scheduling ICON course for staff that are new or being cross-trained into that department.
Senior Occupational Therapist, Rehab Therapies
Project focus: Research and development of a formal coma stimulation protocol for individuals with varying types of brain injuries utilizing evidence-based practice.
HC Svcs Associate Director, Admission & Transfer Center
Project focus: Analyze bed demand at the service level. Determine how many beds are needed to meet the demand and which units are ideal.
Operations Director, Patient Access Center
Project focus: Optimize operating models for referral and care management that closer align PAC and clinic operations.
Manager, Clinical Documentation Improvement
Project focus: Implement a pre-bill review process that will allow a final CDI and Coding auditor review to be completed on targeted cases prior to billing.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
Project focus: Create a “Business of Medicine” Lecture series with the goal of educating IM residents and Cardiology Fellows regarding proper documentation.
Senior Engineering Associate, Radiology
Project focus: Improving patient throughput within the Interventional Radiology Clinic.
Associate Clinical Department Administrator, Internal Medicine
Project focus: Streamlining the Internal Medicine recruitment process by creating more efficient workflows and educational resources.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Project focus: Development of a cultural humility workshop.
Qual & Op Improv Engineer, Office of Patient Experience
Project focus: Explore what sustainment of the Provider Communication Program looks like.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
Project focus: Standardize clinic and provider workflows in order to improve charge capture and invoicing of the multiple service lines offered by UI Occupational Health.
Qual & Op Improv Engineer, Quality Improvement Program
Project focus: Improve the efficiency and quality of onboarding physician learners (residents & fellows).
HC Svcs Supv/ Assistant Mgr, Food And Nutrition Servic
Project focus: Implement Patient App to improve patient satisfaction with meal ordering process and reduce waste.
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, Stead Family Children's Hospital
Project focus: Development of a standardized curriculum for new graduate nurse practitioners starting in our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Clinical Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
Project focus: Develop a dedicated hematology fellowship track within the hematology oncology fellowship program to support recruitment and retention to our growing benign hematology program.
Clinical Assistant Professor, OBGYN
Project focus: Updating the operational structure for obstetrics patient safety and quality improvement.
UIHC Adminstrative Fellow, Hospital Administration
Project focus: Develop documentation that tracks how stakeholders are informed of changes in bed counts and propose recommendations to optimize the bed counting processes.
Social Work Specialist 1, Psychiatry
Project focus: Develop and implement a standardized/formalized onboarding process for Dept of Psychiatry LIPs.
Assoc Director, Nursing Svcs, Perioperative Nursing
Project focus: Development of a multi-disciplinary scheduling huddle to review all necessary pre-procedural elements two days prior to the surgical date.
Administrative Fellow, UI Physicians
Project focus: Improve access and continuity of care for patients seeking sexual health care through expansion of telemedicine services and workflows.
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medical Services
Project focus: Address the need for alternative analgesia methods for pain control in the department of emergency medicine through the creation of an ultrasound-guided nerve block program.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
Project focus: Implement a waitlist review process with the goal of optimizing the transfer of patients from other hospitals to Internal Medicine services at UIHC.
Clinical Professor, Neurology
Project focus: Elevate the level of care, education, and research of the Neuroimmunology Division and our regional and national reputation
Behavioral Health Manager, Social Services
Project focus: Optimize transportation process for Medicaid beneficiaries and improve early discharge and LOS concerns or issues from a transportation perspective.
Nurse Scientist, Nursing
Project focus: Create and implement a strategic marketing plan for UIHC Nursing Research and EBP products, programs, and expertise.
Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner, Pediatrics
Project focus: Comprehensive Development of an Expansion Plan for the Pediatric Psycho-Oncology Program.
Healthcare Services Supervisor/ Assistant Manager, Food and Nutrition Services
Project focus: Improve the consumption rate of supplements offered to patients that are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition.
Director, EMS Learning Resource Center, Emergency Medical Services
Project focus: Develop a comprehensive, two semester Community Paramedic education program.
Fellow, UI Physicians
Project focus: Develop and implement a new Epic Note to be used by IM: Hospitalists and Super Triage to manage and assess patients awaiting transfer on a daily cadence to prioritize patient transfers given UIHC’s limited bed availability.
Nurse Manager, Nursing
Project focus: Provide Nurse Managers with tools to assist them in managing and planning their budget.
Fellow, UI Physicians
Project focus: Offer providers a document that outlines what is included in digital health and how to best offer this service for patients.
Healthcare Services Supervisor/ Assistant Manager, Food and Nutrition Services
Project focus: Implement a room service associate model in patient services.
Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner, Orthopaedic Surgery
Project focus: Implementing implanted device screening in Ambulatory clinics: Identification of implanted devices to improve MRI processes.
Healthcare Services Supervisor/ Assistant Manager, Orthopaedic Surgery
Project focus: Create a workers compensation tool kit that can be applied to any clinical department
PA/ARNP/NNP Supervisor, Family Medicine
Project focus: Pilot APP eConsults to discuss non-surgical patient care, management, and expedite patient follow up between departments.
Patient Experience Coach, Office of Patient Experience
Project focus: Continued implementation of Ambulatory C3 Program, focusing on: delivery of training, fostering clinic-level sustainment, and measuring success.
Associate Director, Ambulatory Surgery Center
Project focus: Improve engagement and retention for frontline nurses in the periop division.
Fellow, Hospital Administration
Project focus: Enhance Hospital Administration’s Administrator on Call manual through centralized content and monitoring processes.
PA/ARNP/NNP Supervisor, UI Community Clinics
Project focus: Refine and expand the telemedicine platform and workflows and build a system for expanding to other departments within the UIHC.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Urology
Project focus: Improve access and content for written and online educational materials for Pediatric Urology patients and parents.
Social Work Specialist I, Psychiatry
Project focus: Finalization and rollout of ICON training, provision of further education and support for staff encountering human trafficking concerns across the hospital.
Manager of Capital Accounting, Finance and Accounting Services
Project focus: Centralize asset replacement data sources to feed into one dashboard.
Quality & Opportunity Improvement Engineer, Quality Improvement Program (QuIP)
Project focus: Decreasing patient wait time, improving patient access, and improving UIHC staff satisfaction by standardizing and optimizing the IVF 1st Patient Appointment.
Facility Coordinator, College of Medicine Administration
Project focus: Provide senior leadership and departmental officers a graphic representation of grant funding and square feet assigned to primary investigators.
Nurse Manager, Nursing
Project focus: Improve the ability to safely staff the pre and postoperative anesthesia units throughout the perioperative division (MOR, ASC, SFCH).
Security Manager, Safety & Security
Project focus: Increase the security of the SFCH using new technology.
APP Lead, Psychiatry
Project focus: Development of formal performance recognition program for APPs in the department of psychiatry.
Manager, Pharmacy
Project focus: Develop a pharmacy readiness plan to support UIHC’s initiative to implement Beacon for Pediatric Oncology.
Quality & Opportunity Improvement Senior Engineer, Clinical Documentation Improvement
Project focus: Implementation of Quality CDI RNs.
Interim Associate Director, Nursing
Project focus: Enhance care coordination of patients through the perioperative experience.
Clinical Assistant Professor Radiation Oncology
Project focus: Improve recruitment for Radiation Oncology residency program by developing a strategic marketing and outreach plan.
Assistant Manager Guest Services
Project focus: Utilize the technology available via Epic Transport to automate transport assignments and making the patient escort program more efficient.
Assistant Director Food and Nutrition Services
Project focus: Utilize Tableau to integrate existing CBORD data structures for enhanced decision support in food service operations.
Hospitalist Internal Medicine
Project focus: The implementation of a timely inpatient medication reconciliation process to decrease length of stay, associated care costs, and to increase patient safety.
Director Marketing, Digital/Multimedia
Project focus: Rebuild of uihc.org and uichildrens.org on a new content management system. This project in full will tackle the functionalist, structure, and aesthetics of our two core patient-focused web properties.
Clinical Assistant Professor Internal Medicine
Project focus: Streamlining the process of inpatient transfers between UIHC and ICVA to gain back time consumed by team members, resulting in decrease in hospital occupancy rate and length of stay.
Nurse Manager Nursing
Project focus: Implement best practice strategies and new technology, to improve patient perception of noise, in and around their room, during their inpatient stay.
Director Population Health Operations/ACO
Project focus: Increase volume of diabetic eye exams performed via IDx-DR, an AI diagnostic system.
Senior Application Developer HCIS
Project focus: Collaborate with the Cherwell team in order to improve the data request process, ticket prioritization and time tracking for the Reporting and Analytics Team in HCIS.
Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner Nursing
Project focus: Develop a comprehensive wound care approach to decreasing surgical site infections in cesarean section patients which can be expanded to an organizational level.
Assistant Director Engineering Services
Project focus: Controlling Engineering Services supply costs by streamlining ordering and inventory processes.
Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner Nursing
Project focus: Work with CMS and other major insurance companies to add a qualifier to coding and billing to allow APP specialty recognition for reimbursement for services.
Assistant Nurse Manager Family Medicine
Project focus: Improve the current workflow in which clinical delays are communicated to patients thus improving patient's perception about delays and also improving Press Ganey scores for IRL East Family Medicine patients.
Life Safety Manager Engineering Services
Project focus: Improve the accountability and accuracy of inspection testing and maintenances activities at UIHC through measurable database platforms.
Clinical Assistant Professor Internal Medicine
Project focus: Improve mentorship program for clinical investigators within the HCCC, and develop a program to train and assist physicians in conducting investigator initiated clinical trials.
Manager Specialty Pharmacy
Project focus: Enhancing prescription capture rate through growth of a centralized specialty pharmacy model.
Administrative Services Specialist Marketing and Communication
Project focus: Strengthen communication to our UI Health Care providers, and implement ways to improve provider to provider communication - both internally and externally.
Director Office of the Patient Experience
Project focus: Development of a comprehensive Ambulatory C3 Curriculum to be implemented in UI Health Care’s Clinics.
Clinical Associate Professor Neurology
Project focus: Expand the neurointerventional program throughout the state including telemedicine, and satellite sites for acute coverage.
Clinical Assistant Professor Anesthesia
Project focus: Improve patient safety and medication documentation administration by adoption of intraoperative infusion pump integration.
HR Director Pediatrics
Project focus: Enhance Pediatric's administrative staff development.
Fellow UIP
Project focus: Provide the appropriate resources for both employees and employers when it comes to COVID-19 testing.
Clinical Assistant Professor Surgery
Project focus: Evaluate impact of COVID-19 on surgeons and surgical patients, as well as volume of elective surgeries at UIHC compared to normal operation.
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Pediatrics
Project focus: Evaluation of APP transition to practice at UIHC and implementation of Transition to Practice Fellowship to support new graduate APPs through formalized curriculum, mentoring and fostering of research and publication.
Assistant Director OBGYN
Project focus: Institute a labor and delivery center of excellence by creating a culture of mutual respect, improving communication, improving maternal and neonatal outcomes, and planning an overall vision for OBGYN at UIHC.
Fellow Hospital Administration
Project focus: Creating and implementing an electronic tool for timely review of staffing data.
Associate Director Finance
Project focus: Implementation of a rolling forecast to be used at UIHC, which will allow for real time assessments and increased flexibility in financial decisions.
Clinical Associate Professor Internal Medicine
Project focus: Grow the Phase 1 Clinical Trials Program at HCCC and bring innovative treatment options for our cancer patients.
Clinical Associate Professor Anesthesia
Project focus: Develop Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) billing for sustainability.
Clinical Associate Professor Pediatrics
Project focus: Improving Outreach Pediatric Cardiology Clinical productivity.
Senior Compliance Coordinator Clinical Staff Office
Project focus: Develop an online application for direct download of practitioner data.
Associate Clinical Department Administrator Pediatrics
Project focus: Expansion of the Neonatal Transport Program is designed to improve the access and quality of care for the state’s most critically ill neonates.
Nursing Practice Leader Nursing Administration
Project focus: Development a new response team that would respond to patients who are becoming verbally aggressive and not requiring immediate hands-on intervention.
E&A Project Manager College of Medicine
Project focus: Develop the most universal clinical exam pod.
Operations Manager Hospital Administration
Project focus: A self-assessment to prepare the Center for Procedural Skills and Simulation (CPSS) to grow from a ‘Focused’ to ‘Comprehensive’ American College of Surgeons (ACS) Accredited Educational Institute (AEI).
Administrative Services Specialist Internal Medicine - GI/Hep
Project focus: Decreasing scheduling lag in Digestive Health through the use of a referral decision tree.
Compliance Associate Director Joint Office for Compliance
Project focus: Standardize provider education across specialties to focus on high risk areas of coding and EHR utilization.
Senior Financial Analyst Ophthalmology
Project focus: Review and evaluate UI Optical business and operations, ensuring efficiency and optimum workflow for both patients, staff, and bottom line.
Healthcare Planner Capital Management
Project focus: Develop processes and improvements for UIHC Capital Management Design and Construction Transfer Packages.
Supply Chain Coordinator Material Services
Project focus: Transitioning the Linen and Laundry department inventory to an electronic tracking system to improve efficiencies in ordering and delivery processes.
Admin Fellow Hospital Administration
Project focus: Reduce error likelihood and decrease process waste through the use of a just-in-time blood management system.
Associate Director Heart and Vascular Center
Project focus: Creation of a cardiovascular service line clinical operations council focused on quality, safety, patient, and staff satisfaction.
Assistant Director Cancer Center
Project focus: The development of a cancer rehabilitation program at UIHC to increase the visibility and reputation of the hematological malignancies program to free up inpatient capacity by reducing length of stay for eligible patients.
Co-Director Care Coordination Division - Pediatrics
Program Director Pediatric Pain and Palliative Care
Project focus: Increase awareness and development of the pediatric complexity tool within EPIC.
Clinical Assistant Professor Anesthesia
Project focus: Developing an innovative approach to delivery of pain care in the peri-operative setting with goals of improving patient satisfaction scores and reducing chronic post-surgical pain and opioid dependence.
Operations and Communications Manager CDD
Project focus: Discover and develop ways to empower our clinical providers and support staff to help manage the critical touchpoints of our clinic when looking to increase patient and staff satisfaction and manage expectations.
UIP Fellow University of Iowa Physicians
Project focus: eConsult Optimization & Expansion Project: Expanding the scope of eConsults to additional adult and pediatric specialties to support patient access.
Administrative Services Specialist College of Medicine
Project focus: Develop an Emergency Preparedness Plan for the College of Medicine that includes implementing a quick alert communication tool, emergency action plans for 12 buildings and provides building occupants first steps to action during an emergent event.
Professor Neurology
Project focus: Organization of the First Annual UI Parkinson’s Disease Patient Symposium to enhance education and UI Outreach to Parkinson’s disease community.
Staff Nurse Clinical Documentation Improvement
Project focus: Develop and implement the 3M 360MD query process for inpatient providers, in an effort to streamline the query process, enhance documentation accuracy, and improve documentation related metrics for our organization.
Clinical Assistant Professor Psychiatry
Project focus: Extending an initiative to reduce restrictive responses to challenging behaviors exhibited by patients and evaluating interdisciplinary training opportunities.
Clinical Assistant Professor Anesthesia
Project focus: Developing the Pediatric Comprehensive Pain Clinic.
Behavioral Health Clinical Manager/Coordinator of the Family Support Program Social Services
Project focus: Creation of a UIHC Donor Memorial Wall.
Manager Human Resources, Learning and Development
Project focus: Develop and implement a supervisor training program focused on employment laws and policies to ensure supervisors throughout UI Health Care have the knowledge to successfully supervise others.
Clinical Assistant Professor Pediatrics
Project focus: Standardize scheduled general pediatric as well as nursery admissions.
Director Office of the Patient Experience
Project focus: Implementation of a Provider Communication Program that utilizes Evidence-based communication skills to enhance the communication practices of Care Providers at UIHC.
Clinical Assistant Professor Family Medicine
Project focus: Improving physician understanding of patient communication and medical management preferences through a novel medical personality inventory aimed at improving patient-physician alignment.
Healthcare Services Supervisor/Assistant Manager Radiology
Project focus: Better connect Radiology residents with departmental research and researchers, and related departments and focus areas, throughout their entire Radiology residency.
Assistant Director, Clinical Applications HCIS
Project focus: The After Visit Summary optimization project improved the key health information communicated between providers and patients across the state of Iowa.
Facilities Services Coord Environmental and Guest Services
Project focus: Implementing a “Huddle Board” in CWS Environmental Services that will eventually be implemented throughout all of Environmental Services.
Clinical Assistant Professor Internal Medicine
Project focus: Develop an innovative approach to the Outpatient Supportive & Palliative Care Clinic Flow.
Healthcare Services Manager/Assistant Department Director Hospital Admin
Project focus: Develop a process for specialty palliative telehealth consultation in partnership with the Virtual Hospitalist Program, as a means of advancing Palliative Outreach.
Manager, Clinical Practice and Operations Pediatrics
Project focus: Complete a staffing & template analysis for the Department of Pediatric specialty providers (both physicians and APPs) across all practice locations (PSC, IRL, & Outreach) to develop departmental template guidelines and protocols to reduce variation and inefficiency.
Program Coordinator Cancer Center
Project focus: Develop value-based metrics and reporting mechanism for Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Program.
Nursing Manager Nursing Admin
Project focus: Implementation and ongoing development of a Fixed Wing program at the University of Iowa with initial focus on neonate, pediatric patient and then expanding to all appropriate patient populations.
Nurse Manager - 6RC Nursing
Project focus: Training RNs to complete patient mobility assessment and using data to drive decision-making for interdisciplinary team.
Qual & Op Improv Engineer Operations Excellence
Project focus: Building a Quality and Lean Foundation for "Cancer's Newest Miracle Cure."
HR Manager Pharmacy
Project focus: Development of a comprehensive, accredited pharmacy technician training program with the goal of providing hands-on and experiential training to individuals entering the pharmacy technician career field.
Compliance Specialist Compliance
Project focus: Assess ligature risk and mitigation plans at UIHC to ensure compliance with Joint Commission suicide prevention standards.
Mgr, Acct and Financial Analysis Pediatrics
Project focus: Create and implement a Stead Family Department of Pediatrics Purchasing Policy that will streamline purchases made by division administration in our decentralized structure and create efficiencies in the approval process of departmental purchases.
Certified RN Anesthetist/Sup Anesthesia
Project focus: The Patient Centered Perioperative Care project aims to improve patient flow through full coordination across the pre-surgical and post-surgical care continuum.
Director Project Management Capital Management
Project focus: Create a data driven tool enabling leadership to properly evaluate space allocation to a department or faculty member at the Carver College of Medicine based on strategic vision, research synergies, grant funding, and space availability.
PA/ARNP Hospitalist Pediatrics
Project focus: Updating the Child Protection Clinical Guidelines and Epic Order Sets.
Admin Fellow Hospital Admin
Project focus: Evaluation of the current MA:RN staffing model in ambulatory clinics in order to determine the appropriate model that supports physicians while improving clinic efficiency and throughput.
Support Services Coordinator Family Medicine
Project focus: Leverage Epic, MyChart, and Welcome tablet functionalities to optimize the patient check-in and registration processes.
Qual and Op Improv Engineer Office of the Patient Experience
Project focus: Improving the patient experience in the Emergency Department waiting area.
Assistant Manager Rehab Therapies
Project focus: Implementation of a screening process to determine appropriateness for physical therapy evaluation and intervention on 6 Roy Carver inpatient unit.
Nursing Manager - 2RC Nursing Admin
Project focus: Optimize the use of ultrasound guided peripheral IV placement to improve the patient experience and reduce hospital acquired infections (HAIs).
Fellow Internal Medicine
Project focus: Creating a closed cardiac intermediate care unit.
Senior Project Manager HCIS
Project focus: Develop, evaluate and recommend process changes to the PMO project life cycle to support project managers and project leaders to identify, measure and communicate sustainable project benefits.
Clinical Assistant Professor Pathology
Project focus: Develop and document a standardized workflow for the 3D Histech P1000 (Pathology slide scanner) to utilize the scanned slides in patient care setting.
Nurse Practice Leader Nursing Admin
Project focus: Complete a gap analysis for the Experienced Nurse Fellowship program to evaluate alignment with the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) global standards and develop a timeline to pursue ANCC Practice Transition Accreditation (PTAP).
Compliance Coordinator Compliance
Project focus: Work with stakeholders to bring our institution into compliance with The Joint Commission's 2018 Pain Standards.
Nursing Practice Leader Nursing Admin
Project focus: Gain a better understanding of the differences in delegated task unit-by-unit and determine how the organization could optimize the role of the nursing assistant allowing them to function at their highest level of training.
Assistant Director, Administrative Applications HCIS
Project focus: Implementation of EPIC's Transfer Center module to improve standardization of data capture and improve monitoring, trending, and reporting of incoming patient transfers to UIHC.
Director of Compensation Health Care Human Resources
Project focus: Exploring additional pay practices to aid in the recruitment and retention of Staff Nurses.
Nurse Manager 6JC Nursing
Project focused: Improve 6JC staff retention.
Senior Physical Therapist, Assistant Manager Rehabilitation Therapies Department
Project focus: Streamlining inpatient physical therapy at UIHC: focus on value by emphasizing efficiency and efficacy.
Administrative Fellow Hospital Admin
Project focus: Preparing for the opening of the new cancer clinic.
Program Manager Internal Medicine
Project focus: Developing telemedicine services for general Infectious Diseases and Virology patients across the state of Iowa.
Program Director Nursing Recruitment/Magnet
Project focus: Develop an additional support classification/role for the intensive care units that would allow us to reallocate our full scope nursing assistant workforce to the inpatient units that require their skills.
Research Manager Clinical Research Unit of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science
Project focus: Develop the Academy for Research Professionals into an initial standardized and documented competency based orientation process for new research staff throughout UI.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medical Director of Clinical Services Internal Med - HCCC
Project focus: Improve wait time and patient’s satisfaction at their appointments in Holder Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Clinical Assistant Professor Internal Medicine - Hospitalist
Project focus: PRICE: Patient Regionalization to Improve Care Efficiency for impatient medicine teams.
Interim Director, Nursing Research, Evidence-Based Practice & Quality Nursing
Project focus: Establish a cost structure for nursing services related to industry sponsored research.
Director of Health Policy VPMA
Project focus: Develop and implement a legislative and regulatory tracking system tied to the UI Health Care Strategic Plan to centralize information and UI Health Care positions.
Manager UI Patient Access Center
Project focus: Create new INPT discharge follow up orders, one for specialty care follow up and one for Primary Care Provider follow up needs. Embed these new orders in the discharge navigator workflow for a providers’ ease of access. Route these new orders, when signed, to the Schedule Orders Workqueue to be worked by priority by outpatient schedulers. The orders will be added to the After Visit Summary document for clinical education prior to discharge.
Nursing Practice Leader, Nurse Residency Coordinator Nursing Clinical Education Center
Project focus: The purpose of this project will be to develop a proposal and timeline for application for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) Provisional Accreditation for the University of Iowa interprofessional simulation center.
Clinical Assistant Professor Internal Medicine
Project focus: Expand our Virtual Hospitalist Service; a service where we provide academic hospitalist staffing to small rural hospitals using telemedicine.
Clinical Associate Professor, Medical Director of Anesthesia Informatics, Physician Informatics Officer, Clinical Director of Main Operating Rooms Anesthesia
Project focus: Epic Anesthesia enhancements including use of Haiku and Canto applications for improving documentation and timely billing.
Associate Professor Program Director, Nuclear Medicine Residency Radiology
Project focus: Re-organize the scheduling of work during the day to make the combined operation of the nuclear medicine and PET clinics more efficient.
HR Generalist Engineering Services, Guest Services, & Employee Health
Project focus: Create a Support Services orientation to improve culture, reduce turnover, and provide consistent training and expectations for our new employees.
Associate Administrative Director Adult Hospitalist Program – Internal Medicine
Project focus: Implement a structured huddle with the multidisciplinary team to share key metrics for the 5 South Unit.
Project Manager Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
Project focus: Patient Access in Outpatient General Pediatrics.
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Acute Care - Department of Pharmaceutical Care
Clinical Assistant Professor Applied Clinical Science -Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science
Project focus: Determining the possibilities for increased fiscal responsibility by retrospectively analyzing UIHC’s use of inpatient biologic therapies for the treatment of adult patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Manager, Finance Analysis Pathology
Project focus: Work collaboratively with nursing and medical leadership to develop a cost benefit analysis for a 24/7 phlebotomy service.
Clinical Associate Professor Surgery
Project focus: Optimizing the financial performance of the complex aortic endovascular surgery program at the University of Iowa Heart and Vascular Center.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pain Medicine Fellowship Director, Department of Anesthesiology
Project focus: Creation of an online educational module on Responsible Opioid Prescribing for Chronic Non Cancer Pain with the aim of incorporating that into the Compliance System for Practitioners.
Manager Respiratory Care - Pulmonary Diagnostics & Hyperbaric Medicine
Project focus: To implement a Respiratory Therapy Educator Specialist program targeting chronic pulmonary disease patients that will provide education on respiratory medication delivery, self-management techniques and coordinate with the Pulmonary Clinic for discharge follow-up to improve continuity of care.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Interim Clinical Director SFCH Operating Rooms Anesthesia
Project focus: Decrease Stead Family Children’s Hospital Operating Room turnover times.
Nurse Manager IRL
Project focus: Measurement of staff satisfaction and perception of teamwork after the implementation of TeamSTEPPS in a multi-specialty clinic setting.
ARNP/PA Supervisor SNICU Anesthesia
Project focus: Creating a Fellowship program for critical care advanced practice providers.
Clinical Department Administrator Pediatrics
Project focus: Develop a standardized onboarding and training program for administrative support leaders across all divisions in the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics.
MICU Lead APP Internal Medicine, Division of Pulm Critical Care
Project focus: Creating a Fellowship program for critical care advanced practice providers.
Clinical Associate Professor Internal Medicine - Immunology
Project focus: The development of a dedicated team based inpatient service to prioritize, then evaluate for penicillin allergy.
Lead, Project Manager UI Physicians
Project focus: Multi-phased collaborative effort between the UI Physicians and UI Pharmacy to standardize and centralize pharmacy services. Project goals are to focus on reducing risk of pharmacy denials, increase patient satisfaction, and decrease clinician administrative burden.
Quality and Safety Specialist Clinical Quality Safety and Performance Improvement
Project focus: A standardized plan for advanced practice provider onboarding: proposing the ideal state.
Quality & Operations Improvement Manager/Director Clinical Documentation Improvement
Project focus: Standardization of documentation queries in Epic with integration of UIHC approved Documentation Guidelines.
Nurse Manager Ophthalmology Clinic
Project focus: Improve operations including patient access and through put in pediatric ophthalmology clinic setting and determine if growth is financially viable.
Administrative Fellow Hospital Administration
Project focus: Developing a standardized process for completion of advanced care planning throughout the organization.
Renal Services Administrator Dialysis
Project focus: Transitioning Prisoners on Dialysis to a Home Dialysis Treatment Modality at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center.
Senior Project Manager Capital Management
Project focus: Evaluate the sustainability of new technology and building materials used in the 4 new operating rooms.
Assistant Director, Clinical Applications HCIS
Project focus: Implement Laboratory Information Systems for UIHC's non-Pathology laboratories.
Senior IT Security Analyst HCIS
Project focus: Improve the after hours Help Desk phone quality and workflow to improve experience for customer and support staff.
Senior Project Manager HCIS
Project focus: To develop a Population Health Dashboard that tracks ACO metrics and generates targets.
Assistant Director, Clinical Applications HCIS
Project focus: Analysis and implementation of the Epic Case Management module.
Assistant Nurse Manager 6RCP- Adult Internal Medicine
Project focus: Develop program to sponsor UIHC health care workers in providing international aid.
Associate Research Scientist Emergency Medicine
Project focus: Increasing acute care research through campus wide utilization of the Emergency Department Research Enroller Program (ED-REP).
Lean Management Engineer Department of Operations Excellence
Project focus: Improve the sharps injuries reporting process for residents in the MOR.
Clinical Professor Psychiatry/Internal Medicine
Project focus: Improvement of Psychiatry Admission and Transfer Process.
Director of Advanced Practice Providers Nursing Administration
Project focus: A standardized plan for advanced practice provider onboarding: proposing the ideal state.
Hospitalist, 6RC Medical Director Internal Medicine
Project focus: Initiate nurse-physician joint rounding on 6RC to improve communication and coordination of care.
Quality and Safety Specialist Clinical Quality, Safety, and Performance Improvement
Project focus: Perform a restrospective analysis that will identify factors associated with improving early identification and treatment of patients with sepsis.
Assistant Director, Administrative Applications HCIS
Project focus: Implementation of Patient Estimate functionality in Epic to provide patients with an accurate estimate of their out-of-pocket responsibility for common procedures.
Support Services Manager IRL
Project focus: Providing a new patient experience by offering Shared Medical Appointments in our IRL Diabetes Center.
Senior Project Manager HCIS
Project focus: Replace UIHC's nurse call system and integrate with other hospital systems to provide timely notifications and enable nursing to make data-driven decisions.
Associate Director, Clinical Cancer Services Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
Project focus: Implementation of Supportive Oncology Services.
Associate Director, Nursing Emergency Medicine
Project focus: Designing updated triage space and accompanying workflows to decrease left Without Being Seen measure and increase patient satisfaction.
Pharmacy Operations Supervisor Ambulatory Care Pharmacy
Project focus: Networking our high performing pharmacy services and evaluating their impact on population health.
Administrative Fellow Hospital Administration
Project focus: Cost-benefit analysis to justify an increase in radiology technicians in order to maximize efficiency and effectiveness of image post-processing.
Associate Professor Pediatrics
Project focus: Optimizing the flow of the general pediatrics resident acute care clinic.
Senior Project Manager HCIS
Project focus: Upgrade of Epic EMR and related modules and applications from v2014 to v2016.
2016-2017 Executive Leadership Academy participant poster
Assistant Director, Patient Privacy, Safety, and Policy Management Joint Office for Compliance
Project focus: Create an effective EHR Patient Privacy Monitoring Program by implementing and utilizing a software system that proactively protects patient privacy.
Project Director University of Iowa Health Ventures
Project focus: Hosting Epic (EHR) and Infor (ERP) to affiliates.
Associate Director Health Information Management
Project focus: Identification of correct patient status for patients in the Operating Room and Ambulatory Surgery Center.
Professor Urology
Project focus: Development of cancer staging/treatment summary section within cancer patient note.
Interim Director, Clinical Applications HCIS
Project focus: Implement a new EHR for UEHC (Employee Health).
Associate Director Food and Nutrition
Project focus: Improving efficiencies in workflow to provide more meaningful info to LIPs for clinical decision making, including discharge decisions.
Assistant Nurse Manager Pediatric Dialysis
Project focus: Using telemedicine to improve patient's health with interactive communication between the home dialysis patient and multidisciplinary team.
RN CQSPI
Project focus: Transitioning data abstraction to a more automated process.
Clinical Support Teams Supervisor Otolaryngology
Project focus: Evaluating & eliminating clinic barriers to access to increase Press Ganey scores.
Nurse Clinical Specialist - Cardiomyopathy Treatment Program Heart and Vascular Center
Project focus: Development of a Center for Staff Engagement in the Heart and Vascular Center.
Clinical Assistant Professor Obstetrics & Gynecology
Project focus: Telehealth program in OB ultrasound to provide MFM consults to pregnant women at risk fetal anomalies.
Manager HCIS
Project focus: Expand the partnership between HCIS and Capital Management to align technology requirements and ensure stakeholder vision.
Associate Professor, Acting Director Comprehensive Stroke Center Neurology
Project focus: Expanding Acute Stroke Call & telestroke Providers at UI Comprehensive Stroke Center.
Chief Architect Capital Management
Project focus: Studying design elements of the new Children's Hospital Integrated Cancer Center that can be incorporated in future UIHC projects.
Assistant Professor Emergency Medicine, Anesthesia
Project focus: Developing sepsis outreach program for critical access hospitals in Southeast Iowa.
Research Support Manager Psychiatry
Project focus: Mental health integration between the UI and the VA.
Clinical Assistant Professor Urology
Project focus: Creating data linkages to leverage unique data sources for outcomes assessment in patients with cancer.
Director, Clinical Functions Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Project focus: Expanding off-site infusion opportunities for HCCC.
Health Care Services Associate Director Dermatology
Project focus: Expanding dermatologic clinical service via private practice acquisition.
Director UI Patient Appointment Center
Project focus: Develop and implement a methodology and tool for monitoring, tracking and reporting scheduling variances.
Assistant Director Rehabilitation Therapies
Project focus: Development of formal mentorship model.
Lean Management Engineer Operations Excellence
Project focus: Staff & equipment planning for Infusion Suite expansion.
Manager, Data & Analytics HCIS
Project focus: Create a centralized report request and review process available to end users within UIHC.
Management Srvs Manager EVS
Project focus: Satellite Locations EVS Process Standardization.
Nurse Clinical Specialist Navigators
Project focus: Clinical Documentation Seminar for M2's at Carver College of Medicine.
Project Manager Capital Management
Project focus: Comparison of two UV sterilization systems in the OR.
Clinical Professor/Director Joint Office for Clinical Outreach
Project focus: Encourage physician participation in Clinical Outreach.
Associate Director Joint Office for Compliance
Project focus: Achieve patient-centered medical home recognition for all primary care clinics and providers.
PA/ARNP Hospitalist OBGYN
Project focus: Implementing Team STEPPS on the OB inpatient units.
Clinical Associate Professor Surgery
Project focus: Operation and financial plan for center procedural skills and stimulation.
Senior Financial Analyst EVS
Project focus: Implementation of automated inventory supply software.
Manager Central Sterilizing Services
Project focus: To improve the quality of instrument trays supplied by Central Sterilizing Services to the main operating room.
Medical Director Outpt. Cardiology/PICC Line Services
Project focus: Implement a vascular access device choice algorithm.
Manager CDD Rehab Therapies
Project focus: Increase patient engagement by utilizing family centered care model.
Director of Physics Radiation Oncology
Project focus: Implementing Valumetric Modulated Arc Therapy to improve treatment efficiency.
Assistant Nurse Manager Nursing Administration
Project focus: Development and initiation of a patient satisfaction survey designed for patients of the Digestive Disease Procedure Center.
Interim Director Cardiomyopathy Treatment Program
Project focus: Develop Heart Failure QAPI Program.
Manager Respiratory Care
Project focus: Facilitate pulmonary function testing in asthmatic patients.
Assistant Nurse Manager Nursing Administration
Project focus: Multidisciplinary rounds with patients, family and nursing participation.
Assistant Department Director Radiology
Project focus: Implement decision support to help guide physicians when ordering imaging procedures.
Staff Nurse Hospital Based Projects
Project focus: Frontline providers capturing codable documentation: Electronic Application.
Associate Director Iowa Institute of Human Genetics
Project focus: Developing a NGS-based panel for PGx testing to determine each person's Phamacogenomics Profile (PGxP).
Associate Professor Surgery
Project focus: Improve admission times in 4JP inpatient unit.
Director of Clinical Functions Perioperative
Project focus: Facilitate Team STEPPS implementation and sustainment in Perioperative Services.
Manager EVS
Project focus: EVS business plan for the Children's Hospital.
Advanced Practice Nurse Nursing Administration
Project focus: Develop a comprehensive renal replacement therapy education program.
Interim Administrator/Director HVS
Project focus: Heart & Vascular Center Strategy.
Assistant Professor Anesthesia
Project focus: Develop high fidelity simulation program for maintenance and certification and assessment of clinical competence.
Assistant Department Director Neurology
Project focus: Combine EEG lab and Epilepsy Monitor Unit sharing resources and improving patient care.
Clinical Associate Professor Dermatology
Project focus: Innovative alternate models of dermatology.
Clinical Nurse Manager UICMS
Project focus: Physician efficient, patient focused care using scribing.
Medical Director Liver Transplantation
Project focus: Reduce readmissions through improved discharge process and transition care.
Nurse Manager Nursing Administration
Project focus: Implement the Patient Acuity Workload scoring system in our EMR.
Nursing Clinical Strategist Nursing Administration
Project focus: Creating interoperatives safety checklist for robotics.