Dr. Jennifer Lundblad

We want to assure that we are meeting those time sensitive requirements.

medical care needs.

That's quality assurance.

We measure that.

We track that.

We assure that we're doing that for the patients in the emergency department.

But in the emergency department, maybe we've noted that it's tough times in emergency departments right now.

There's a lot of boarding.

There's a lot of people that stay in emergency departments too long.

So maybe as a hospital, we're

committed to saying, we want to improve, we want to move people through the emergency department better.

So we look at our data and we see that the average time that someone spends from the moment they walk in the door till either they're discharged or admitted is four hours or 10 hours or whatever it might be.

We set some goals, we measure, we do some small tests of change, we try to understand what are the barriers that

to doing better and we look at that emergency department throughput and that's maybe an improvement project that we have.

So again, we use data in a lot of ways in all parts of quality and that can inform and guide our work and help in our decision making.

Great question.

So in Stratis Health's work as a nonprofit organization that essentially serves as an external change agent.

Right.

So we're providing training and technical assistance and coaching and support for those that we're working with.

we'll receive funding from perhaps a federal agency or a state agency or a foundation.