Making the Operational, Financial, and Clinical Case for a Robust Sepsis Program
Recorded On: 04/05/2022
Description:
In this session, Andre Vovan, MD, MBA, will review key operational, financial, and clinical facts useful for making the case for a robust and scalable sepsis program. He will demonstrate the benefit sepsis programs bring to both the healthcare system and to the community. Dr. Vovan will also provide an overview of key metrics to use when assessing organizational effectiveness, care coordination, and interdisciplinary collaboration of a sepsis program.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the activity, the learner should be able to:
- Recount key operational, financial, and clinical facts useful for making the case for a robust sepsis program;
- Communicate the ways in which sepsis programs affect hospital operations, impact the bottom line, and benefit both the healthcare system and the community;
- Assess organizational effectiveness, timely interdisciplinary collaboration, and care coordination for sepsis patients at their organization.
Target Audience:
Nurses, advanced practice providers, physicians, emergency responders, pharmacists, medical technologists, respiratory therapists, physical/occupational therapists, infection prevention specialists, data/quality specialists, and more.
Andre Vovan, MD, MBA
Critical Care, Quality, Patient Safety, and Clinical Effectiveness Consultant
Andre Vovan, MD, MBA is a critical care specialist who led the system-wide sepsis collaborative for hospitals in the St. Joseph Hoag Health network of care and remains a champion of sepsis identification and treatment. His leadership and advocacy for improved sepsis outcomes have helped health systems decrease sepsis mortality and shorten hospital stays, which is better for patients and reduces healthcare costs overall.
Dr. Vovan was formerly the Executive Medical Director of the Acute Care Institute at Hoag Hospital. He was also the Chief of Clinical Effectiveness Officer at Providence St. Joseph Health, and most recently was the Vice President of Quality and Patient Safety at Tenet Health. He received his MBA from the University of California, Irvine, and his MD from the University of California, San Diego. In 2017 he received a Sepsis Heroes award from Sepsis Alliance for his advocacy to improve sepsis outcomes and his leadership within the health system. He is also a member of the Sepsis Alliance Advisory Board.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP17068 for 1.0 contact hours.
Other healthcare professionals will receive a certificate of attendance for .75 contact hours.
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