1. AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference: HRET HIIN call for storyboards
Storyboard Template| Due by 5:00 p.m. CT January 12, 2018 to

2. Instructions
Please complete slides 3-10 of this template to describe your HIIN project. Use the questions on each slide as a guide to tell your improvement story; each question does not need to be answered in full detail. Your presentation must include exactly 8 slides.
Storyboards should focus on success in a past or present quality improvement projects, emphasizing how they accelerated and amplified the work in the following topic areas:
Readmissions Reduction
Sepsis Transfer
Health Equity
Community Partnerships for Improved Health Outcomes
Submit your storyboard to by 5:00 p.m. CT on Friday, January 12. Awardees will be notified by Friday, January 19, 2018.
If selected, HRET will finalize, print and ship your storyboard to Phoenix.
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3. <Organization> story about <topic>
Insert a photo of your hospital and logo here.
Insert a photo of your safety team, including your leadership and any patient/family advisors.
Insert a caption, including names of those pictured.
Insert a caption, including the name of your hospital, bed size and the city and state where you are located, here.

4. <Organization> story about <topic>
What happened in the hospital setting that made you want to address this topic/issue/challenge?
Why did you feel it was a challenge?
Why did you make the choice to address the challenge?

5. <Organization> story about <topic>
What would have happened if you didn’t address the challenge?
What would have happened if you successfully addressed the challenge?
What evidence based intervention (or interventions) was/were selected to address the challenge?

6. <Organization> story about <topic>
Describe the background/context in your community that impacted your selection of the topic to address the challenge
Who else participated in this project in addition to the hospital team?
What are the results of your topic?

7. <Organization> story about <topic>
How did your hospital’s participation in the HIIN contribute to the outcome achieved?
What did the results/outcome teach the team?
What did the patient teach the team?

8. Insert a run chart and/or other data displays to illustrate your results

9. <Organization> story about <topic>
What is the call to action for others with a similar challenge?
If your intervention was implemented in all HIIN hospitals, what would you envision happening?
<HRET will insert harm calculator number (e.g. this hospital had a 5 percent reduction, and everyone had a 5 percent reduction, what would be the number of patient harms prevented)>
Why should other hospitals implement your intervention?

10. <Organization> story about <topic>
How easy is the intervention for others to implement?
Are there any additional resources needed to spread?
What commitment would you ask each hospital to make to reduce harm in <topic>?
“Will you/your hospital join me in _____________”