Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt)

✍🏼 ✨ Check out our invited commentary in JAMA Network Open: Bridging the Gap: Addressing the Rural-Urban Imbalance in Health Care Through the NHSC Rural America faces significant challenges in accessing healthcare, and the findings from Baker et al. underscore the need for tailored workforce policies to bridge the rural-urban clinician gap. The study reveals that despite a dramatic increase in National Health Service Corps (NHSC) clinicians between 2000 and 2020, the proportion of rural clinicians declined, highlighting systemic issues in recruitment and retention. From an Industrial/Organizational Psychology perspective, these trends emphasize the need to align organizational incentives with clinician motivations, while addressing barriers unique to rural practice. These findings reaffirm that addressing rural clinician shortages requires a systems-level approach, blending evidence-based workforce policies with a nuanced understanding of individual and organizational behavior. With targeted interventions, we can create sustainable solutions to improve access and outcomes for rural populations. Co-author: Hilary Touchett What strategies do you think could help attract and retain rural clinicians? Share your thoughts below! #WorkforceDevelopment #RuralHealth #IOPsychology #NHSC #HealthEquity #IQuESt #HSR #JAMANetworkOpen 📚 Read the full article: 👇🏼

This afternoon, IQuESt hosted the annual Holiday Party! We celebrated with delicious lunch from Thai Cottage, delectable desserts baked by our IQuESt faculty and staff, a White Elephant Gift Exchange, a photo booth, and the Silver Spatula Dessert Competition! ❄️ ⛄ 🎄 🥧 Congratulations to the Silver Spatula Winner, Evelyn Trevino! Her creamy fruit tart won over the judges. The fruit tart is pictured below, on the bottom left of the first image. Our other winners are Shannon (Schwarz)Kenyon, 2nd place, Christmas Cheesecake & Lakeshia James, 3rd place, Elvis Presley Cake. Thank you all who participated and provided unique and tasty desserts for all to enjoy. Thank you to the Silver Spatula Judges: Amari Anderson, Catherine Grimme, Aisha Khan, Nick Hoang and Abby Loya. Lastly, thank you to Ivy Myers and the operations team for organizing our wonderful holiday event this year! Happy Holidays to all!

🌟IQuESt Core Investigator, Bhavika Kaul, MD MAS, has recently been awarded a VA Health Systems Research Career Development Award for her project titled, "Improving Timely Access to Care for Veterans with Pulmonary Fibrosis Detected on Lung Cancer Screening."🌟 Under the mentorship of Dr. Laura Petersen, Dr. Kaul's work will focus on leveraging real-world data and the thoughtful implementation & evaluation of AI tools to improve timely access to care and outcomes for Veterans with lung disease. #VAHSR #CareerDevelopmentAward #VeteransWithLungDisease #AccessToCare

Happy to announce a recently accepted (in-press) article publication. Thanks to my team of co-authors for all your contributions! Kyler Godwin Molly Horstman Kelley Arredondo, PhD https://lnkd.in/gxgxhzad

📰 Just in! U.S. Medicine: The Voice of Federal Medicine published a press release on the paper, "Association of deployment characteristics and exposures with persistent ill health among 1990-1991 Gulf War veterans in the VA Million Veteran Program" authored by several IQuESt faculty including Dr. Drew A. Helmer along with the VA #MillionVeteranProgram. ☆ Read the press release: https://lnkd.in/gBB74Rvn ☆ Read the related published article: https://lnkd.in/gPZfR6nP #VeteranResearch #BCM #GulfWarVeterans #GulfWarIllness #MVP #USMedicine

Know anyone interested in a #QualityImprovement fellowship? Have them apply for the VAQS fellowship, led by several of our IQuESt faculty! #HealthcareImprovement #HSRFellowships #QI

This week, IQuESt faculty attended the 17th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health (D&I), co-hosted by The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and AcademyHealth. Dr. Kyler Godwin, Chief of the II&E Program at IQuESt presented at the Building Capacity in Implementation Science and Practice Symposium alongside Kelli Scott, Madison Hartstein, Kera Swanson, & Maggie Padek Kalman. The title of their panel presentation was 'Moving Fast and Slow: Optimizing the Pace of Implementation'. Dr. Godwin is standing on the far right.

Congratulations to Dr. Anita Chary on receiving the Advancing Health Equity Award from the Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section of American College of Emergency Physicians! 🎉

We are seeking a talented individual for a full-time position as an #ImplementationScientist! If you or someone you know is interested in this #opportunity, please consider applying. Additional application details are available in the pdf below. For questions about the role, contact Dr. Kyler Godwin.

📅Happening tonight!