At the end of this online enduring material, participants should be able to:

THPG Physician Leader Rounding

• Discuss the goals and expectations for physician leader rounding
• Review preliminary physician rounding data
• Recognize the importance of peer-to-peer feedback and how to improve the patient experience

Enhancing Supportive and Palliative Care Delivery in Texas Health Resources

• Discuss the evidence-based impact of palliative care
• Describe the strategic vision for palliative care in 2024-2025
• Discuss the plan to enhance delivery of palliative care across THR

Enterprise Care Management Opportunity Days/Length of Stay Update

• Discuss common factors that contribute to extended hospital stay
• Recognize delay reasons contributing to excess days and increased length of stay
• Describe the relationship between length of stay and patient outcomes, costs, and resource allocation 

Professionalism & Well-Being for Hospitalists: Meaning in Medicine, Reason for Being

• Discuss how the THR Professionalism Program works and contributes to community well-being
• Describe well-being at THPG, why it matters and how to maximally benefit from resources available to providers
• Gain a new perspective on the meaning in medicine and your reason for being

Documentation Improvement

• Discuss outcome measurement:  severity of illness (SOI), risk of mortality (ROM), DRG, observed to expected (O/E) ratios
• Recognize impact of clinician documentation
• Review content of a discharge summary
• Review content of expired patient summary and impact on outcome metrics

Reducing Healthcare-Associated Infections

• Define a health-care associate infection (HAI)
• List the HAI included in the THR KPI
• List two strategies for reducing CLABSI, CAUTI and C. diff HAI

Heart Failure

• Discuss the role of effective diuresis in heart failure patients
• Review key examination features of decompensated heart failure patients
• Discuss future heart failure initiatives