Driving Results Improving Care at NYU Winthrop

Patient Flow Data and Joint Commission Compliance

This story can be found in the Winter 2018 Issue of TeleTracking's Patient Flow Quarterly Magazine. Download the full issue.

In 2015, NYU Winthrop set out to improve organizational efficiency. The corporate goal was simple—to improve patient throughput—Ann and team quickly identified a number of tactics to make this goal a reality. For example: engaging the entire organization, and developing action plans, setting thresholds, targets and stretch goals while regularly measuring goals versus actual performance. Employment of tactics would help demonstrate the improvements between 2015 and 2017, many of which revolved around optimizing the use of TeleTracking.

Data was also critical to NYU Winthrop’s success with The Joint Commission requirements. It gave them a concrete way of determining the changes that needed to be made to demonstrate that they were meeting the elements of performance.

“The first action I initiated was to run TeleTracking reports to see what our baselines were in key areas,” says Hanford. “EVS, Patient Transport, and Patient Placement were critical. When I saw what our baseline performance was, I was able to identify performance improvement opportunities, establish goals and set up action plans that I knew would have an impact on patient throughput,” she continues.