Patient safety and quality improvement are areas of ongoing focus for CATALYST. The increasing importance of data, patient input/satisfaction and management practices in achieving the highest levels of care have positioned our group to be successful in this field of research.
Implementing Scalable, PAtient-centered Team-based Care for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes and Health Disparities (iPATH)
The iPATH project brings together research teams from The Ohio State University, Stanford, Harvard, and Impactivo LLC for practice-relevant work related to diabetes care in federally qualified health centers. FQHCs serve 1 in 7 members of racial/ethnic minority groups in the U.S. and see a greater prevalence of diabetes, allowing them to serve as a venue for innovating in equity-focused diabetes care. The iPATH project will endeavor to refine and implement an approach to practice transformation that was conceived to support FQHCs’ goal to achieve National Committee for Quality Assurance recognition as patient-centered medical homes. A pilot demonstrated significant decreases—with an average reduction of 31%—in poorly controlled diabetes (A1c>9%) among patients at seven clinics affiliated with an FQHC in Puerto Rico in 2017-2020. For more information, visit https://rethinkingclinicaltrials.org/demonstration-projects/ipath/.
Ohio State Quality Improvement Hub (QI Hub)
The Ohio State Quality Improvement Hub (QI Hub) project endeavors to build a statewide infrastructure that is focused on improving the delivery of health services to patients who are publicly insured in support of the Ohio Department of Medicaid’s population health strategy. Facilitated through CATALYST and under the direction of QI Hub Principal Investigator Catherine Quatman-Yates, PhD, DPT, PT, Ohio State’s QI Hub is one of several such hubs at medical colleges across Ohio. Supported by the Ohio Department of Medicaid and the Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center, the QI Hub brings a learning health network mentality to infrastructure improvement that connects participating colleges and extends all the way from providers and clinics to statewide organizations. For more information, visit https://u.osu.edu/liftlab/our-work/lhs-qihub-medtapp/.
Institute for the Design of Environments Aligned for Patient Safety (IDEA4PS)
The Institute for the Development of Environments Aligned for Patient Safety (IDEA4PS) sought to use systems approaches to bring together multidisciplinary teams to generate new ways of looking at information and data aimed at improving patient safety. Twenty-three investigators from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and beyond participated in this Patient Safety Learning Laboratory, proving how the university works together for patient safety. Learn more about the current IDEA4PS projects.
Continuous Learning and Improvement Mastery Building (CLIMB)
The CLIMB Program is a training effort and infrastructure creation program that has been created to support a partnership among The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center's Rehabilitation Services, Ohio State’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, and Catherine Quatman-Yates’s Leading Improvement-Focused Teams for Advancing Health Systems Outcomes Lab (LIFT Lab). By teaching the foundations of quality improvement science, CLIMB aims to improve the skills of program participants in continuous learning and improvement strategies while also addressing strategic initiatives for the partner organizations. By cultivating and integrating the research done by faculty, post-doctoral scholars, and students, Ohio State can take on a leadership role in quality improvement and outcome improvement. Culture changes instituted through CLIMB can then be lateralized to areas beyond rehabilitation while building momentum to move science forward. For more information, visit https://u.osu.edu/liftlab/.
Evaluation of the MEDTAPP Healthcare Access Initiative
The Medicaid Technical Assistance and Policy Program (MEDTAPP) Healthcare Access Initiative (HCA) prepares current and future health professionals to serve Medicaid beneficiaries and to work in underserved communities. Specifically, the MEDTAPP HCA supports health care professional recruitment and retention through innovative teaching and training programs that focus on behavioral health, community health workers, interprofessional education and community‐based experiences to increase access to care for Medicaid and underserved populations.