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Getting Started—Organizational Assessment

Here are the first steps that your hospital will need to undertake to launch its participation in the No Place Like Home Campaign.

  1. Hospital CEO selects a team leader to lead the improvement work.
  2. The CEO and team leader communicate throughout the organization the reasons for engaging in the No Place Like Home Campaign and their hospital's goals for the campaign. (An internal communication kit will be provided.)
  3. The CEO and team leader communicate with community stakeholders (such as long-term care facilities, physician clinics, home health agencies, etc.) regarding the No Place Like Home Campaign to engage them in the work.
  4. Leadership identifies and selects a physician champion
  5. The team leader convenes a Continuum-of-Care Team and a Working Team. Depending on the size and structure of your organization, you may want to form a Continuum-of-Care Team that meets monthly and a Working Team that meets weekly to develop and implement the improvements. In some organizations this may be one team that meets frequently.
  6. Complete an organizational assessment.
  7. Select the key area or areas to begin the work. Your Resource Consultant can assist with this process.
  8. Provide organizational resources to accomplish improvements.

Note: If you have work underway in reducing readmissions, you can build on your existing work.

Begin Your Organizational Assessment Now

Below are resources and tools to guide you through your organizational assessment

Getting Started and Organizational Assessment recorded Webinar
Webinar Recording
Presentation Handouts

Organizational Assessment Guide and Tools

Organizational Assessment Tools

 

Some material on this Web site is adapted from material originally prepared by the RARE Campaign.