Learning throughout our careers continually expands and diversifies our perspectives to help us approach problems, opportunities and partnerships with enthusiasm. One way to stretch our skillsets and feel more prepared and embedded in our initiatives is Intermountain’s Advanced Training Program (ATP) in Clinical Quality Improvement and abbreviated miniATP led by Todd Allen, MD. The ATP and miniATP are programs offered by Intermountain’s Healthcare Delivery Institute. They’re designed to train leaders, managers and frontline health professionals in developing and applying clinical and operational best practices, quality and process improvement projects and outcome measurement applications.
What’s unique about the ATP and miniATP is the fusion of skill development training with the practical execution of solving problems or rolling out projects that participants bring to the course. Instructors, coaches/consultants and analyst teams work with participants to help them make breakthroughs—which can reestablish productivity, fulfillment and work/life balance.
We all see improvement opportunities in healthcare, but do we have the resources, knowhow—or autonomy—to fix them? Partnering with the Healthcare Delivery Institute is a constructive way we can make a meaningful difference. It’s also great way to learn alongside your nursing, operational and strategic colleagues about how to identify or create a best practice, to co-create a solution or standard process and to broadly implement it. I encourage you to learn more about the ATP program here.
Feedback on the Healthcare Delivery Institute:
I have been really enjoying this course. Nothing I participated so far gets even close to this. Very impressive. – Arash Velayati, MD, Hospitalist, Southeast Health, AL
What’s unique about the ATP and miniATP is the fusion of skill development training with the practical execution of solving problems or rolling out projects that participants bring to the course. Instructors, coaches/consultants and analyst teams work with participants to help them make breakthroughs—which can reestablish productivity, fulfillment and work/life balance.
We all see improvement opportunities in healthcare, but do we have the resources, knowhow—or autonomy—to fix them? Partnering with the Healthcare Delivery Institute is a constructive way we can make a meaningful difference. It’s also great way to learn alongside your nursing, operational and strategic colleagues about how to identify or create a best practice, to co-create a solution or standard process and to broadly implement it. I encourage you to learn more about the ATP program here.
Feedback on the Healthcare Delivery Institute:
I have been really enjoying this course. Nothing I participated so far gets even close to this. Very impressive. – Arash Velayati, MD, Hospitalist, Southeast Health, AL
Recommended Reading from the Healthcare Delivery Institute:
- Anderson, G., Reinhardt, U., Hussey, P., & Petrosyan, V. (2003). It’s the prices, stupid: Why the United States is so different from other countries. Health Affairs. 22(3). 89-105. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.22.3.89
>> This paper uses the latest data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to compare the health systems of the 30 member countries in 2000.
- Edmondson, A. (2012). Teaming: How organizations learn, innovate, and compete in the knowledge economy. San Francisco CA. Jossey-Bass.
>> Teaming shows that organizations learn when the flexible, fluid collaborations they encompass are able to learn. The problem is teams, and other dynamic groups, don't learn naturally.
- The Advisory Board. (2016). The system blueprint for clinical standardization. Retrieved from: https://www.advisory.com/research/health-care-advisory-board/white-papers/2016/the-system-blueprint-for-clinical-standardization
>> This white paper offers a blueprint for achieving a properly organized, successful system that delivers predictable, consistent care.