Annual Improvement Projects
Education
Fiscal year 2026
- Establish quality metrics for ambulatory otolaryngology
- Advancing communication excellence at Stanford
- Sustaining likelihood to recommend performance for in person visits
- Establish EPIC inbox coverage plan for all providers
- Increasing visits per room per day
Fiscal year 2025
- Transition of online reporting system to MIDAS
- Advancing communication excellence at Stanford
- Sustaining likelihood to recommend performance for in person visits
- Increase block utilization of pediatric outpatient surgery center
- Decreasing expected length of stay
- Increasing visits per room per day
Fiscal year 2024
- Web-based reporting of complications and improvement opportunities
- Advancing communication excellence at Stanford
- Sustaining likelihood to recommend performance for in person visits
- Establishment of pediatric outpatient surgery center model
- Scribe support to increase encounter closure rate
- Defining provider profiles (number of clinical sessions) per fiscal year
Fiscal year 2023
- Improving efficiency of block time utilization
- Reducing intraoperative waste of pharmaceuticals in short duration procedures
- Reducing OR case turnover time by improving accuracy of scheduling
- Improving wellness in otology division faculty
- Optimizing the cardiac clearance process in head and neck surgery
Fiscal year 2022
- Improving efficiency in new patient referrals from LPCH to SHC
- Improving wellness in pediatric division faculty
- Increasing the utilization of heat and moisture exchanges for tracheostomized patients
- Optimizing tinnitus referrals from primary care to otolaryngology
Fiscal year 2021
- Optimizing sinusitis and nasal obstruction referrals from primary care (Value Based Selection: VBS)
- Development of a bedside tracheostomy exchange protocol to enhance patient safety
- Reducing tracheostomy-related pressure injuries
- Improving care transitions for hospitalized head and neck cancer patients
- Reduction in insurance denials for eustacian tube surgery
Fiscal year 2020
- Development of an elective tracheostomy pathway for patients with neurodegenerative disorders
- Reducing surgical case cycle time
- Improving Body Mass Screening (BMI) in sleep surgery patients
- Increasing telemedicine visits in ambulatory otolaryngology
Fiscal year 2019
- Proper ICU utilization following maxillomandibular advancement
- Development of service line dashboard
- Leveraging Enterprise Value Analytics (EVA) for divisional level quality improvement
- ERAS pathway for free flaps in head and neck surgery
- Improving likelihood to recommend scores (LTR) in Sleep Surgery Clinic
Fiscal year 2018
- Creation of Quality Council
- Improving the informing of patients about clinic delays
- Improving admission clinical documentation
- Improving tobacco screening and counselling compliance
- Reducing open outpatient clinical encounters
- Reducing intraoperative wastage of supplies