RCC Goals Archive
Each year, the RCC and its committees create goals to address and improve the needs of the healthcare network and services in the Rutland region. This page is an archive of the RCC's goals throughout the years.
Overarching RCC Goals and Focus Areas
2021
- COVID-19
- Alcohol & Substance Use
- Transitions of Care
2020
- Reduce the number of incidents of Sepsis in the Rutland Community.
- Develop a way to identify and monitor comorbid conditions and patterns for patients admitted with a diagnosis of Sepsis.
- Reduce the percentage of patients readmitted with Sepsis to 11%.
RCC Core Team
2021
- Provide recognition for meaningful participation in collaborative activities.
- Achieve 80% attendance at all committee meetings.
- Publish 4 RCC Newsletters.
- Create a community forum for the collaborative members to be engaged in a conversation about emergency preparedness.
2020
- Identify and engage key stakeholder’s necessary for the success of the Collaborative through annual membership assessment.
- Provide recognition for meaningful participation in collaborative activities.
- Implement a newsletter to provide a platform for information sharing and distribution.
Behavioral Health Committee
2021
- Increase community knowledge of mental health and substance use resources.
- Provide training to improve community understanding around treatment of patients presenting with substance use disorders
2020
- RRMC will monitor the care pathways for patients screened high and moderate and low, in the ED and identify areas of opportunity.
- Community Health Center's will increase the # of suicide screenings for all patients using the PHQ/C-SSRS.
- RMH will increase the # of staff trained to use the C-SSRS, and monitor the use of the C-SSRS.
- Increase the number of people who are trained in the Umatter gatekeeper training.
Clinical Case Review Committee
2021
- Review a minimum of 10 cases with one of the identified areas of focus.
- Develop a care plan for all cases reviewed.
2020
- Perform a comprehensive review of 10 patients.
- Develop a standardized care plan to use across all cases.
- Implement a care plan for all cases reviewed.
- Develop a way to perform clinical case reviews to provide alternative technical ways to include all stakeholders.
- Investigate and report out to Stakeholder meeting on trends that drive readmissions.
Community Centered Care Committee
2021
- Develop a process to identify patients for review utilizing WorkBench One data and clinical indicator criteria
- Identify 10 ED high utilizers from previous CY for care management monitoring in 2021
- Identify 10 ED high utilizer patients from current CY for review and develop care plans
Data and Analysis Committee
2021
- Create and maintain an ongoing list of source or report data from RRMC member organizations.
- Create a data sharing structure for all source and report data from RCC member organizations.
- Expand active participation in the Data Committee.
- Create a process for RCC members to submit data requests to the Data committee.
- Create a new RCC Dashboard to meet the needs of the RCC.
2020
- Engage Rutland Mental Health to include RMHS data to the RCC Dashboard.
- Maintain VNA & Bayada data in the RCC Dashboard.
- Add Community Health data to RCC Dashboard.
Education and Engagement Committee
2021
- Provide CME for Sepsis education/support.
- All Journals: Review content for updates every 6 months.
- Develop a process to track all journal usage.
- Survey to staff to identify barriers to using journals.
- Create a dementia journal.
2020
- Develop a community Sepsis campaign. (2019 cont.) - Movement to mention the word sepsis, CME, community education (brochure, World Sepsis Day, VPR etc.)
- Implement a sepsis "stoplight" tool.
- In the ED.
- In acute care inpatient.
- In the community.
- Journals to be update with RCC logo and community partners to ensure alignment.
- Right care, at the right place, at the right time. (Utilization of proper healthcare resources)
Palliative Care and Hospice Committee
2021
- Organize 2 community education events.
- Develop a standardized process for providing the hand-off for Hospice & Palliative Care patients to & from the ED.
- Review a minimum of 6 cases who present to the ED and/or have been referred for other reasons.
- Present non-branded education for Palliative & Hospice services to 4 locations in the community with a focus on the FQHC.
- Develop the ability to evaluate advance directive completion in the community.
2020
- Organize 2 community education events.
- Develop a standardized process for providing handoff for hospice and palliative patients to and from the ED.
- Review a minimum of 6 cases who present to the ED and/or have been referred for other reasons.
- Present non-branded education for palliative and hospice services to four locations in the community (with a focus on the FQHC).
- Develop the ability to evaluate advance directive completion in the community.
Transitions Committee
2021
- Ensure continued identification & management of social determinants which impact safe transitions across the continuum.
- Impact access by improving availability & use of telehealth.
- Care Navigator – document care coordination for patients in the ACO.
- Standardize screening process – contributes without duplicating other subcommittee goals.
2020
- Develop a way to monitor and implement improvements for patients transferring to and from the ED and skilled nursing facilities.
- Monitor discharge packets to identify areas that can be improved to ensure all discharge packets are completed correctly. Identify trends to improve process.
- Homecare to outpatient.
- Care Navigator.