The 15th GNYHA/United Hospital Fund (UHF) Clinical Quality Fellowship Program (CQFP) class graduated last week. Twenty-nine fellows completed the 15-month program developed by GNYHA and UHF to identify and educate the region’s next generation of quality improvement (QI) leaders. The class comprised 20 physicians and nine nurse professionals. The fellows were from 25 GNYHA member institutions. The clinical specialty areas represented included pediatrics, ambulatory care, orthopedics, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, neurology, internal medicine, nursing quality, and cardiology.
The 15th CQFP Class
The fellowship program comprises both didactic and interactive learning, and fellows are required to lead a QI capstone project under the guidance of an expert mentor from the program. Notable capstone projects from members of the 15th class include “What Matters Most: A Focus on Early Goals of Care Conversations in the Emergency Department” by Payal Sud, MD, FACEP, North Shore University Hospital; “Reducing Emergency Department Discharge Length of Stay: Strategies for Streamlining Patient Flow” by Jamie Uyami, MSN, RN, Montefiore Medical Center; and “Improving Adherence to LiveOnNY Clinical Trigger Compliance Events in the Medical Intensive Care Unit” by Shay Walter, DNP, MSN, RN, NE-BC, CPHQ, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University/University Hospital at Brooklyn.