As part of its core initiatives, KHC has most recently provided direct, in-person assistance to participating practices through its Practice Transformation Network (PTN). Practices have the opportunity to collaborate with clinician colleagues locally, regionally, and nationally to accelerate innovative care strategies. Since 2015, KHC has enrolled over 1,400 clinicians from across Kansas.
Read success stories from the PTN.
PTN Power Packs
Power Packs are breakthrough examples of practice transformation that:
- Improve health outcomes for all people
- Avoid unnecessary use of hospitals and emergency departments
- Avoid unnecessary tests and procedures
- Reduce the total cost of care
In addition, Power Packs:
- Support short- and long-term financial sustainability
- Improve patient engagement and satisfaction
- Improve provider joy in work, including employee satisfaction and workforce retention
Sustainable Business Operations
Practices are missing strategic financial management infrastructure needed to thrive and transition to value-based payment models. This Power Pack describes how practices can develop the infrastructure to become financially viable and sustainable.
Person and Family Engagement
Patients face difficulties in fully engaging in their care, which negatively impacts health outcomes, practice efficiency, and profitability. These Power Packs describe how practices can address social determinants to improve health outcomes.
→ Download the PFE Power Pack.
→ Download the Missed Appointments Power Pack.
Joy in Work and Satisfaction
Clinician burnout results in high levels of stress and dissatisfaction, negatively impacting care. This Power Pack describes how practices address workforce needs that result in improved engagement and job performance.
Understanding Data
Practices are having trouble analyzing and understanding their existing data sources. This Power Pack describes how practices can analyze their data to find inefficiencies and adopt changes that improve health outcomes.
Evidence-Based Care
Many practices receive conflicting information on clinical best-practices. This Power Pack describes how practices are using clinical guidelines to implement evidence-based approaches to care.
Care-Coordination
The referral and transition process is difficult to navigate, resulting in poor outcomes and inappropriate or unnecessary utilization of services. This Power Pack describes how practices can coordinate care in ways that lead to improved engagement, efficient patient flow, and better health outcomes.
→ Download the Power Pack on post-operative care coordination policies that improve health outcomes.
→ Download the Power Pack on closing the loop for clinical referrals.
PTN Informational Materials
- PTN Core Measures, Optional Measures and TCPI Common Measures
- Providers guide to community resources
- Frequently Asked Questions
- TCPI Fact Sheet
- TCPI FAQ
- Developing Your Value Proposition: A Step-By-Step Guide For Behavioral Health Providers
- American Medical Association (AMA) Medicare Physician Payment Reform materials
- White paper: "Medicare Value-based Payment Reform: Priorities for Transforming Rural Health Systems”
The Chronic Disease Self-Management Program Group Leader Trainings
Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) is a series of workshops, once a week, for six weeks, in community settings. Participants demonstrated significant improvements in exercise, cognitive symptom management, communication with physicians, self-reported general health, health distress, fatigue, disability, and social/role activities limitations. They also spent fewer days in the hospital, and there was also a trend toward fewer outpatient visits and hospitalizations.
The certified group leaders of the CDSMP Workshops are the heart of the program. Anyone can become certified through a four-day training, free to PTN participants. Sign up for workshop notifications here. For training dates and more information, email KHC at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
PTN News
Newly Released: 100 tools and resources for improving patient care
An exciting new resource called Tools For Change has just been released by AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW project.
Tools for Change helps primary care practices search from among hundreds of collected tools and resources aimed at facilitating usage of evidence-based practice to improve patient care.
Sharing many identical drivers as the TCPI Change Package used in the Compass Practice Transformation Network, the EvidenceNOW Key Driver Diagram helps users to target change strategies such supporting high functioning care teams with invested leadership, optimizing health information systems, and engaging patients and families.
Additionally, many of the suggested resources support the alignment of QI efforts between KHC and the KDHE Bureau of Health Promotion. Both organizations seek to enhance partnerships between providers and the community in caring for patients with chronic disease. The EvidenceNOW Key Driver Diagram includes relevant resources such as comprehensive care planning worksheets for patients with hypertension and sample protocols for translating hypertension treatment evidence into action. These tools are easily accessible with the diagram’s search feature on the Tools and Resources page.
If you or your staff would like assistance in making the most of this new resource, contact your Quality Improvement Advisor or other staff at the Kansas Healthcare Collaborative: (785) 235-0763.
Contacts
Learn more about a particular staff member by clicking on his or her name.
Rosanne Rutkowski, MPH, BSN, RN
Program Director
785-235-0763 (ext. 1328)
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Eric Cook-Wiens, MPH, CPHQ
Data and Measurement Manager
785-235-0763 (ext. 1324)
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Jill Daughhetee, CMPE, PCMH CCE
Quality Improvement Advisor
785-235-0763 (ext. 1335)
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Malea Hartvickson, MHCL, CPHQ, PCMH CCE
Quality Improvement Advisor
(785) 235-0763 (ext. 8208)
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Mandy Johnson
Quality Improvement Advisor
(316) 681-8200
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Patty Thomsen, BSN, RN, CCM
Quality Improvement Advisor
(785) 235-0763 (ext. 1331)
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Rebecca Thurman, RHIA
Quality Improvement Advisor
(785) 235-0763 (ext. 1332)
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Archives
- Kansas PTN Annual Learning Event, October 18, 2017
- Compass PTN Training and Kick-off, April 29, 2016
- Kansas PTN participants map
Presentation handouts:
- Radical Redesign (watch the video)
- Compass PTN: Preparing Clinicians for the Future (watch the video)
- Using Data to Effect Change (watch the video)
- Community Collaboration & Resources Panel
- KDHE presentation (watch the video, part 1)
- KFMC presentation (watch the video, part 2)
- Transforming Clinical Practice in Ambulatory Care: Engaging Patients, Family & Community as an Improvement Strategy (watch the video)
- Next Steps
Person & Family Engagement
Person and family engagement (PFE), sometimes referred to as patient and family engagement, is a term used to describe the process by which patients, their families, and caregivers are invited, welcomed, and integrated as equal partners in their health and healthcare.
