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Operationalizing an Implementation Framework to Disseminate a Care Coordination Program for Rural Veterans.

Chelsea Leonard¹, Heather Gilmartin², Marina McCreight²

¹Denver/Seattle Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value Driven Care, VA Eastern Colorado Healthcare System, Denver, CO, USA. Chelsea.leonard@va.gov.

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The Practical Robust Implementation and Sustainability Model (PRISM) guided pre-implementation assessments for the rural Transitions Nurse Program (TNP), identifying key themes to optimize care coordination for Veterans.

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Implementation Science
Healthcare Management
Veterans Health Administration (VHA)

Background:

Effective care coordination is crucial for disseminating best practices across diverse healthcare settings.
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) sought to implement the rural Transitions Nurse Program (TNP) to enhance care for rural Veterans.
Pre-implementation assessment of local context is vital for successful program rollout.

Purpose of the Study:

To operationalize the Practical Robust Implementation and Sustainability Model (PRISM) for pre-implementation assessment of the TNP.
To identify facilitators and barriers to implementing a care coordination program in diverse VHA facilities.
To adapt implementation strategies based on site-specific contextual factors.

Main Methods:

Utilized PRISM to guide qualitative data collection, including interview guides, semi-structured observations, and group brainwriting premortems.
Assessed local context, current care coordination, and perceptions of the TNP prior to implementation at five VHA facilities.
Employed deductive-inductive framework analysis to identify PRISM-related themes and adapted implementation strategies accordingly.

Main Results:

Identified actionable themes within PRISM domains, particularly 'organizational characteristics' and 'implementation and sustainability infrastructure'.
Common themes included disconnects between primary care and inpatient teams, concerns about work duplication, and nurse capacity.
These findings directly informed the adaptation of TNP implementation strategies at each site.

Conclusions:

PRISM pre-implementation assessments provided critical insights that guided TNP implementation adaptations.
Identified barriers and facilitators may be common across various care coordination interventions.
Establishing a common language for barriers and facilitators can enhance generalizability and best practice dissemination in care coordination.