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Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI)

QUERI leverages scientifically-supported quality improvement (QI) methods, paired with a deep understanding of Veterans’ preferences and needs, to implement evidence-based practices (EBPs) rapidly into routine care and improve the quality and safety of care delivered to Veterans.

Advance Care Planning via Group Visits Program

Increasing Veteran and caregiver motivation for advance care planning

Created by the Eugene J. Towbin Healthcare Center (North Little Rock)

Caregivers Finding Important Resources, Support, and Training (Caregivers FIRST)

Caregivers FIRST is an evidence-based, caregiver skills group training program.

Created by the Durham VA Medical Center

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Coordinated Access to Reduce Exacerbations (COPD CARE)

Empowering interprofessional care teams to optimize COPD management.

Created by the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans' Hospital (Madison)

DMARD Patient Safety Dashboard App

VHA Patient Safety Dashboard App to improve safe prescribing of DMARDs

Created by the San Francisco VA Medical Center

ED-PACT Tool

Ensuring Veterans receive needed care after emergency department visits

Created by the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center

FLOW System (formerly FLOW3)

Delivery of prosthetic limbs in less than half the time

Created by the Seattle VA Medical Center

Hospital acquired pneumonia prevention by engaging nurses (HAPPEN)

Brushing teeth is saving Veteran lives

Created by the Salem VA Medical Center (Salem, Virginia)

Learn. Engage. Act. Process. QI Learning Program (LEAP)

Teams, with coaching, complete a QI project. No travel required.

Created by the Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Kettles VA Medical Center (Ann Arbor)

Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative (LSTDI)

Promoting goal concordant care for Veterans with serious illness.

Created by the VHA National Center for Ethics in Health Care

Post-Incarceration Engagement (PIE)

Re-entry peers help Veterans make post-incarceration transitions.

Created by the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans' Hospital (Bedford)

STRIDE

Getting hospitalized Veterans back on their feet

Created by the Durham VA Medical Center