2018 Blue Distinction® Center for Maternity Care designation by Blue Cross Blue Shield. The Blue Distinction Specialty Care program recognizes nationally designated health care facilities that show expertise in delivering improved patient safety and better health outcomes.
2018 Blue Distinction® Center for Bariatric Surgery
2018 Blue Distinction® Center for Bariatric Surgery designation by Blue Cross Blue Shield. The Blue Distinction Specialty Care program recognizes nationally designated health care facilities that show expertise in delivering improved patient safety and better health outcomes.
2016 Silver Award for the Workplace Partnership for Life
2016 Silver Award for the Workplace Partnership for Life campaign, presented by the Health Resources & Services Administration’s (HRSA), a national initiative that spreads the word about organ donation.
2016 Blue Distinction® Center for Maternity Care
2016 Selection as a Blue Distinction® Center for Maternity Care by Anthem Blue Cross signifying that Natividad delivers high quality maternity care safely and effectively, based on objective quality measures that represent evidence-based practices of high quality maternity care.
2016, 2015, 2014 and 2012 Award for Sustained Excellence
2016, 2015, 2014 and 2012 Award for Sustained Excellence in Reducing Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers presented by CALNOC (the Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes), the leading provider of actionable information and research on nursing sensitive quality indicators.
Moderated by: Martha V. Douglas-Escobar, MD, Neonatal ICU Director, Natividad By Invitation Only
The Neonatology/Pediatric Department recognized a gap in their practices relating to newly released clinical studies and guidelines. The education need is to review literature with staff and interpret the studies & guidelines into potential changes in practice.
Desired Outcomes:
Critically read and interpret literature.
Incorporate knowledge gained into neonatal care.
Be able to diagnose and treat newborns more effectively.
Presented By: Kristina Kudelko, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Adult Pulmonary, Hypertension Program, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University Lunch is provided
Pulmonary hypertension still has a horrible prognosis. It’s a progressive disease with no cure. We are much better at identifying and treating it these days, but with the best of therapies, there is at best a 70 percent survival rate at five years. That’s hard. And it affects a lot of young women.
Management of Alcohol withdrawal is an essential part of Emergency Medicine. There are methods to predict severity of withdrawal in an ED patient and prevent escalation of alcohol withdrawal syndrome using non-benzodiazepine medications. This presentation will review the presentation and management of alcohol withdrawal patients in the ED using a risk stratification score and nonbenzodiazepines drugs. (Lunch is provided)
The series consists of skill-building workshops delivered by Advisory Board faculty—each one designed to provide you with actionable tools to tackle every day challenges. The workshops are highly interactive, data-rich, and tailored around Natividad’s specific organizational objectives.
Purpose:
To shift physician perspective on accountability such that it is prospective, rather than retrospective.
To establish the importance of setting clear expectations and providing the resources and skills necessary to successfully hold someone accountable.
To understand the role that incentives, intrinsic motivation, and morale play in activating physician accountability. (Refreshments are provided)
Activity Objectives: At the completion of this activities, the learner will be able to…
Understand the leader’s role in ensuring staff accountability.
Remove organizational and personal barriers to accountability.
Ensure that staff are enabled, capable, and invested in achieving the desired outcome.