Collaborative for Healthcare Delivery Science

Improving health care statewide by developing, testing, and disseminating health care practice, organization and delivery strategies

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Full Project Name:Collaborative for Healthcare Delivery Science (CHDS)Principal Investigator:Ann Nattinger, MD, MPH, MACP, MedicineCo-Investigator:Liliana Pezzin, PhD, JD, Medicine; Siddhartha Singh, MD, Medical College Physicians Administration; David Brousseau, MD, Pediatrics; Laura Cassidy, PhD, Institute for Health and Equity; Kathlyn E. Fletcher, MD, Medicine; Bradley H. Crotty, MD, PhD, FACP,Award Amount:$5,000,000.00

Award Date

March2017

Project Duration:88 months

Project Description Narrative:

While health care spending has been rising at an unsustainable rate, the quality of health care in the U.S. remains suboptimal. The health care system in Wisconsin has been identified as one of the most expensive systems in the U.S.

Little is known about how best to integrate medical and nonmedical sectors to achieve improved population health and reduce disparities. Furthermore, existing approaches often do not consider the patient perspective in efforts to improve care delivery. Organized, systematic efforts are needed to inform the development and adoption of efficacious, affordable strategies to improve the quality, experience and value of care provided in Wisconsin.

This project aims to create a collaborative of multi-disciplinary experts dedicated to developing, testing and disseminating health care practice, organization and delivery strategies to improve the quality, experience and value of care in Wisconsin.

Project Updates:

Engaged in several high-visibility projects, including: Addressing Hospital-based Clostridium Difficile Infection, Evaluation of the Rothman Index, Evaluation of At-Home Nasogastric Feeding in NICU Infants, and Delirium Prevention Partnered with the Froedtert and MCW Office of Population Health (OPH) to implement a bulk outreach message to a subset of patients previously targeted by the outreach team, which led to a 10% increase in Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) scheduling compared to the prior year
Worked to better understand and manage the length of stay and resource utilization of patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities following their acute stay at Froedtert Hospital
Continued the penicillin de-labeling project, which established a new standard of care in the Pediatric Emergency Department (PED) and presented cost-savings findings at the 2022 Academy of Health Conference and the American Society of Health Economists meeting
Continued work related to COVID-19, including delirium prevention interventions among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, racial disparities and COVID-19, child abuse during COVID-19, and COVID-19 remote monitoring with GetWellLoop