Quality Improvement for Rapid Development and Scale-Up of COVID-19-Related Screening Processes.

Background: In March 2020, Ohio strongly recommended temperature and health screening for coronavirus disease 2019 symptoms in all businesses to reduce the spread of infection.

Methods: We used multiple plan-do-study-act cycles and workplace efficiency techniques iteratively to develop 12 intervention components required to effectively screen employees and visitors across all locations. We used run and control charts to summarize our performance over time.

Local Pharmacy Partnership to Prevent Pediatric Asthma Reutilization in a Satellite Hospital.

Objectives: In our previous work, providing medications in-hand at discharge was a key strategy to reduce asthma reutilization (readmissions and emergency revisits) among children in a large, urban county. We sought to spread this work to our satellite hospital in an adjacent county. A key initial barrier was the lack of an outpatient pharmacy on site, so we sought to determine if a partnership with community pharmacies could improve the percentage of patients with medications in-hand at discharge, thus decreasing reutilization.