Care Innovation and Transformation
Overview
Since January of 2007, AONE has been involved in the education and dissemination of Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) to over 150 hospitals across the country. These hospitals have focused their innovation work in six areas: safety and reliability; care team vitality; patient-centeredness; increasing value; caring; and transformational leadership. To build upon the success of TCAB, AONE has developed Care Innovation and Transformation (CIT), a new initiative whose foundation will be the basic tenets of TCAB, but will further support the nurse leader in driving innovation, culture change, and health care reform implementation.
Care Innovation and Transformation is closely aligned with AONE’s strategic goals as well as the American Hospital Association’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence program. The CIT initiative will serve as a resource for nurse leaders seeking to transform not only the way care is delivered, but also the culture in which they find themselves working, so that innovation and transformation become a daily pattern.
This newly expanded initiative could come at no better time. Health care leaders everywhere are planning for the implementation of health care reform. What better way to organize the future of health care than by participating in an initiative that captures the essence of innovation and transformation? Care Innovation and Transformation will enable hospitals to take the necessary steps now to prepare for the future.
The Care Innovation and Transformation initiative improves patient care, hospital performance, and employee satisfaction through the engagement of frontline staff, collaboration, innovation and leadership development. Care Innovation and Transformation participants meet face-to-face four times over a period of two years. However, the participants interact regularly through monthly conference calls, webinars, the CIT listserv and other communication tools. Each CIT cohort is a collection of hospitals and nursing teams from across the nation that moves together as a learning community through the two-year program.
Read personal reflections from nurse leaders who have taken the TCAB journey:
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| Created by Provena St. Joseph Hospital, two months after joining the CIT program in March 2012. |
Overview
CIT Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
CIT initiative application
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"Using time/motion technology, hospital units participating in the TCAB initiative outperformed control units in the same hospital in measures of value-added care, direct care, and time in the patient's room." - Rapid Modeling Corporation, 2009 |
Since January of 2007, AONE has been involved in the education and dissemination of Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) to over 150 hospitals across the country. These hospitals have focused their innovation work in six areas: safety and reliability; care team vitality; patient-centeredness; increasing value; caring; and transformational leadership. To build upon the success of TCAB, AONE has developed Care Innovation and Transformation (CIT), a new initiative whose foundation will be the basic tenets of TCAB, but will further support the nurse leader in driving innovation, culture change, and health care reform implementation.
Care Innovation and Transformation is closely aligned with AONE’s strategic goals as well as the American Hospital Association’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence program. The CIT initiative will serve as a resource for nurse leaders seeking to transform not only the way care is delivered, but also the culture in which they find themselves working, so that innovation and transformation become a daily pattern.
This newly expanded initiative could come at no better time. Health care leaders everywhere are planning for the implementation of health care reform. What better way to organize the future of health care than by participating in an initiative that captures the essence of innovation and transformation? Care Innovation and Transformation will enable hospitals to take the necessary steps now to prepare for the future.
The Care Innovation and Transformation initiative improves patient care, hospital performance, and employee satisfaction through the engagement of frontline staff, collaboration, innovation and leadership development. Care Innovation and Transformation participants meet face-to-face four times over a period of two years. However, the participants interact regularly through monthly conference calls, webinars, the CIT listserv and other communication tools. Each CIT cohort is a collection of hospitals and nursing teams from across the nation that moves together as a learning community through the two-year program.
Read personal reflections from nurse leaders who have taken the TCAB journey:
- Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA
- Lawrence and Memorial Hospital, New London, CT
- Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ
AONE will begin the application process on October 1 for hospital units wishing to participate in the next cohort of Care Innovation and Transformation. If you have questions or would like to apply, please contact Amanda Stefancyk at astefancyk@aha.org or (312) 422-2813.
