Overview

During this webinar, Dr. Sandy Fogel, who specializes in healthcare quality improvement and is the surgical quality officer at the Carilion Clinic, discusses the five steps to implement change and shares how his institution put those into action with a glucose control improvement project. Following Dr. Fogel, Linda Beneze, Monarch’s president and chief executive officer, discusses the anticipated glucose control clinical quality measures and why preparing early will benefit your institution.

Objectives

• Understand the history of quality improvement.
• List the five steps to implementing change management.
• Discuss a case study in glycemic management quality improvement.
• Explain the anticipated quality measures for glucose control.

Presenters

Sandy Fogel, MD, FACS
Surgical Quality Officer and Medical Director of OR Services, Carilion Clinic
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Linda Beneze
President and CEO, Monarch Medical Technologies