PCICS Podcast

PCICS Episode 160: QI Spotlight: Flight Plans for Quality & Safety

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Show Notes

Join hosts Rambod Amirnovin (Miller Children’s, Elevance Health) and Jennifer Gauntt, MD (HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children’s at Presbyterian St. Luke’s), as they interview experts using “flight plans” to improve the safety and quality of care in their cardiac ICU’s. Drs. Judson Moore, Andy Koth, and Santiago Borasino give the audience insights into what flight plans are, how they created their process, and how others can do the same for their CICU’s.

Hosts: Rambod Amirnovin, MD (Elevance Health; Miller Children's Hospital); Jennifer Gauntt, MD (HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children’s at Presbyterian St. Luke’s).

Guests: Judson Moore, MD MBA (Primary Children’s Hospital; University of Utah); Andy Koth, MD (Seattle Children’s Hospital, University of Washington); Santiago Borasino MD, MPH (Children’s of Alabama, University of Alabama at Birmingham).

Editor: Rambod Amirnovin, MD (Elevance Health; Miller Children's Hospital) Producer: Zahidee (Saidie) Rodriguez MD (Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta; Emory University)

Sponsor: Phoenix Children's

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