1. Hiding In Plain Sight (HIPS) Strategy
La Maestra Community Health Centers

2. HIPS Strategy La Maestra Community Health Centers
Use of the Algorithm:
Pre-visit, during the visit and Post-visit actions
1. Run i2i Report quaterly:
Patients with 2 medical visit in the past year with 2 BP reads > 140 or >90 or >140/90
2. Check if any of these patients have upcoming apt.
If not, recall patients to come back for follow up.
3. Flag patients chart and inform the provider . Pt belongs to Million Hearts Initiative
3. Provider will see pt and order proper follow up/labs
4. Determination of diagnosis:
1. HTN
2. Elevated BP
Patient diagnosed with HTN :
1. Health Education
2. Pharmacist for Med education/reconciliation

3. HIPS Strategy La Maestra Community Health Centers
Training to ensure Blood Pressure accuracy:
Patient should be relaxed Sleeve should be rolled up.
Locate Brachial Pulse.
Right placement of the cuff

4. HIPS Strategy La Maestra Community Health Centers
The cuff should be about 1 inch (2.5 cm) above the bend of your elbow and should be evenly tight around your arm.
Inflate the cuff Deflate the Cuff

5. HIPS Strategy La Maestra Community Health Centers
La Maestra Policy

6. Hypertension Protocol Status
Connecting to the Larger QI Picture
Topic/ Change Idea
Category
QI Change Concept
Resources
Running quarterly reports to proactively identify patients.
Our efforts are part of the population management.
It addresses multiple QI concepts:
Staff Training
Data driven Improvement
Optimize encounter
HIPS strategy Algorithms.
Hypertension diagnosis protocol.
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Where does your topic/change idea fit into the larger QI picture (refer to slide 2)?
Category: Is the change idea a key foundation, is it part of population health management, or is it an individual patient support?
QI Change Concept: What general QI change concept does it best relate to (e.g., staff training, use evidence- based guidelines and protocols, use data to drive improvement, optimize intake and waiting, optimize the encounter, etc.) If you feel your topic fits into a QI change concept not listed on slide 2, please add it where you feel it best fits. If it addresses multiple QI Change Concepts, indicate that as well.
Resources: What resources best support this change idea?

7. Hypertension Protocol Status
CDS 5 Rights Analysis
Information
Person
Format
Channel
When in Workflow
Actively looking for patients that were HIP. MA RN
Providers
QI team
Reports
Verbal Communication
EHR
I2i Track system
Face to Face meetings
Population Health Management.
The five rights include:
the right information,
to the right person,
in the right intervention format,
through the right channel,
at the right time in workflow
Please answer these questions as they relate to your selected topic/change idea.
What was the information?
Who received/used, produced, acted upon, and/or communicated it?
What format was it in (e.g. alert, protocol, patient monitoring system, report, verbal communication, etc.)
Through what channel (EHR, data warehouse, paper, physical object, telephone, face-to-face meeting, etc.)
Where in the workflow (or was this foundational or population health?)

8. Hypertension Protocol Status
Change Idea in Action
Include any relevant screen shots, photos of teams, etc., as they relate to your topic
Provide an overview of how it works, if not already clear from the previous slide.

9. Hypertension Protocol Status
Keys to Success
Critical success factors:
Inform providers (Even if you have a provider champion)
Engagement and training (if need it) of clinical personal.
Support from financial department and executive team
Resources required:
Reporting tool
Personal (Clinical and QI )
Budget (to make sure we covered the visit of the un-insured patients)
Please answer these questions as if you were teaching another health center how to implement this specific change idea/intervention (remember, there will be health centers in the audience who may be interested in participating next year and there will be representatives from the CDC, HRSA, etc.).
Slide point should be no smaller than 18, ideally 20. Break content into multiple slides, if needed.

10. Thank You Sonia C Tucker Quality Improvement Director