With 1 in 5 individuals experiencing a mental health concern in any given year, timely access to high-quality behavioral health remains a persistent challenge.

 

This session will describe the development of a population health framework for behavioral health in a large integrated health system serving diverse populations.

Emergency Departments (EDs) are at the frontline of the opioid crisis and often the place of first presentation for patients at risk of or suffering from opioid use disorder (OUD).

 

This session will highlight the innovative work being done at two U.S. health care organizations (an urban, safety net hospital and a large public health system), describing specific changes, results, challenges, and lessons learned. 

 

State-based, perinatal quality collaboratives (PQCs) have shown that the application of collaborative, improvement science methods can lead to better perinatal health outcomes.

 

This session will highlight the essential elements of the PQC model of population-based QI, discuss key strategies that support successful statewide perinatal QI initiatives, and present examples from the Louisiana PQC, which is implementing this model to improve maternal health and reduce racial and ethnicity disparities in the state.
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School districts and other educational institutions are realizing that they cannot meet all the needs of every student alone. StriveTogether, a collective impact organization that specializes in cross-sector work in over 60 communities across the US, is working to solve complex problems and transform the educational system to produce more equitable outcomes for children, cradle to career.

 

This session will highlight StriveTogether’s collaborative improvement methodology that combines essential continuous improvement tools with change management and design thinking techniques.
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This session will describe the impact of adopting the Triple Aim as a framework for organizational strategy from the perspective of two health care systems. It will describe the tangible steps that organizations can take in adopting the Triple Aim as well as the challenges this may present

 

Attendees can expect to hear the experiences from Bellin Health and East London NHS Foundation Trust, both of which have aligned their organizational strategy to the Triple Aim framework. This session will be helpful for senior leaders who are keen to consider how to start impacting the health of the populations they serve, beyond just delivering high-quality health care, and creating a coherent narrative and alignment through large, complex organizations.
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Coordinating behavioral and physical health care for families with children ages 0 to 5 has been a challenge for those who live Pueblo, Colorado, one of the state's most impoverished neighborhoods. Launch Together has been improving the coordination of behavioral and physical care for young families by bringing together primary care, behavioral health organizations, home visiting groups, child care and educational agencies, public health, and child advocacy organizations to create seamless referral loops that improve outcomes for the most needy children.

 

In this session, Launch Together team members will describe how tools such as IHI's Psychology of Change white paper and the Model for Improvement have helped them create successful momentum in improving the lives of Pueblo's neediest families.
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This session will describe the theory of how to apply quality improvement (QI) skills in order to improve health outcomes, experience of care, and cost of care for a population segment (i.e., pursue the IHI Triple Aim).

 

Attendees will be guided step-by-step through how they can use existing QI skills in service of population health improvement, identifying the steps where this differs from traditional QI work. Attendees will hear examples from the work of Community Solutions and East London NHS Foundation Trust, both of whom are using QI and the Triple Aim framework to improve outcomes, experience, and cost for whole populations.

 

Patients with a behavioral health emergency often confront overcrowded emergency departments that are ill-equipped to meet their needs.

 

Taking the patient perspective, this Workshop will share the work of an 18-month IHI Learning Community that tested new ways to care for patients in the emergency department and to connect them more effectively with community resources. Participants will learn about successes, challenges, and ideas for how to make meaningful improvements in their own systems.
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This session will describe the theory of how to apply quality improvement (QI) skills in order to improve health outcomes, experience of care, and cost of care for a population segment (i.e., pursue the IHI Triple Aim).

 

Presenters will walk attendees step-by-step through how you can use your existing QI skills in service of population health improvement, identifying the steps where this differs from traditional QI work.We will incorporate examples to illustrate the theory from the work of Community Solutions and East London NHS Foundation Trust, both of whom are using QI and the Triple Aim framework to improve outcomes, experience, and cost for whole populations.
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As Improvement Science is being applied through a Collaborative model to achieve population-level outcomes, now in multiple sectors and across sectors, there are common adaptive challenges emerging across the work.

 

This dynamic Workshop will use case studies from the fields of health care, homelessness, education and work across the non-profit sector to teach methods, tools and frameworks ranging from high-level theory of change frameworks to tools developed to cut through complexity and address adaptive challenges. Participants should plan to walk away with tools and frameworks that they can readily apply to their work, new connections to peers doing similar types of scaled improvement work, as well as ideas co-produced with other participants on how to address common and emerging challenges.
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Swedish Medical Group is a not-for-profit healthcare system in the greater Seattle area. Primary Care Behavioral Health (BH) has been increasingly integrated into its primary care clinics starting in Q4 of 2014.

 

This Workshop will go over a program evaluation that explores whether engagement with a BH provider in primary care reduces avoidable ED visits, and if there is a difference in shifting utilization based on the frequency of visits with BH.
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