The UCSF Center for Healthcare Value (CHV) has designated 10 projects submitted to the 5th Annual UCSF Health Improvement Symposium as receiving “Blue Ribbon Awards for High-Value Care”. The award targets projects geared toward improving financial strength by reducing costs, improving value and reducing waste.
The 2022 Blue Ribbon Awards were given to the following projects and teams.
• Real-World Tolerability of Biosimilar Bevacizumab-awwb Compared to Bevacizumab in Cancer Patients at an UCSF Health: Maher Alhaja and team
• Optimizing Medication Product Formulations: Sam Andrews and team
• Resident Panel Management: Elisabeth Askin and team
• Using APeX Claim Routing Logic to Reduce Denials and Accounts Receivable for Infusions and Other Drugs: Christina Delsman and team
• Proof-of-Concept for Novel Intervention to Prevent Postoperative Ileus in Patients Undergoing Ileostomy Formation: Anya Greenberg and team
• Optimizing Vasopressin Use for Septic Shock: Jenny He and team
• Radiology BCMA Project: Sherilyn Hutchinson and team
• Improving Throughput: Discharge Milestones Optimization: Craig Johnson and team
• Applying Lean Methodology for Waste Reduction in the EP Lab: Lisa Konstantinidis and team
• Financial Assistance via MyChart: Christopher Lull and team
• CAP Project Phase 1: Reimagining The Journey From Referral to Listing for Kidney Transplant Candidates: Anna Mello and team
• Improving Access to Drug Desensitization: Fernanda Young and team
• Ambulatory Optimization for Biosimilar Conversion to Improve Reimbursement and Avoidable Write-Offs: Courtney Yuen and team
• Impact of a Pharmacy Managed Medication Reconciliation Program: Ashley Thompson and team
• Improving Social Needs Screening for Pediatric Patient: Nicole Penwill and team
• Decreasing Overuse of Heated High Flow Nasal Cannula in the Treatment of Pediatric Bronchiolitis: Mandeep Chadha and team
• Improving Cost-Efficiency with Increased use of Preoperative Enteral Acetaminophen: Craig Flath and team
• Myocardial Perfusion Study No Show Rate - Non-Invasive Cardiac Stress Lab: Ron Anthony and team
The 2021 Blue Ribbon Awards were given to the following projects and teams:
- “Surgeon Placed Transverse Abdominis Plane Blocks as an Alternative to Thoracic Epidurals” (Allison Kay and team)
- “Increase Pre-operative Enteral Acetaminophen Use” (Dean Thorsen and team)
- “COVID-19 Symptom Checker: MyChart Self-Triage & Self-Scheduling Tool” (Timothy Judson and team)
- “Pursuing Pharmacy Revenue Opportunities” (Jessica Galens and team)
- “IV Acetaminophen Stewardship: Leveraging the EHR to Support Value Improvement” (Kendall Gross and team)
- “First Case on-time Starts- Mission Bay Perioperative Pediatrics” (Scout Hebinck and team)
- “Increasing the Percent of Same-day Discharges after Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention” (Olivia Hodgkiss and team)
- “Reviewing Preference Cards to Decrease Supply Waste and Cost per Case in Kidney Transplant Surgeries” (Seema Gandhi and team)
- “Surgical Preference Card Review & Refresh” (Eva Turner and team)
- “Vasopressin Quality Improvement” (Gabriela Young and team)
The CHV extends hearty congratulations to these project leaders and their teams for their devotion to promoting high-value care at UCSF and beyond.
