What is the Guided Questions Tool and why and how was it created? Hear from Amy Basken, Director of Programs at the PCHA, and Julie Lavoie, PhD, CPNP, MSN, MS, RD, Quality Improvement Manager at the Herma Heart Institute, talk through the history of the tool and their vision for every pediatric heart program to proactively provide answers to the questions.

• How many procedures do you perform each year?
• How many times have you and your program performed this procedure or ones like it in the last year? Over the last four years?
• What is the survival rate for this type of procedure at the time of hospital discharge? After one year?

• How do your results compare to other centers' results?

   

Questions like "How many procedures does your center perform every year?" seem like they'd be easy to answer. Hear from Julie Lavoie on the many ways a program can provide data to answer the question and how the Herma Heart Institute chose to answer.

We were one of the first pediatric heart centers to endorse the public reporting of data to share information with families. 

 One example of our commitment to success is our Interstage Home Monitoring Program.

Our goal is to educate families well in advance of hospital discharge, so that there is a safe and smooth transition to home.