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Overview of TAKEheart Training Curriculum & Resources

TAKEheart training materials and related resources are designed to provide actionable guidance to hospitals wishing to implement evidence-based strategies for expanding patient participation in cardiac rehabilitation (CR).

TAKEheart training materials are organized into consolidated curricula for each of four focus areas. Training materials for each focus area include a customizable slide deck, an actionable implementation guide, and a comprehensive resource guide. A User's Guide (PDF, 337 KB) provides more information about these materials and how to get the most out of them.

TAKEheart Focus Areas

 
Getting Started

Getting Started

Review the steps necessary for laying the foundation for implementing process change, including making the case to your leadership, mapping your hospital's current processes, and collecting baseline data.

Implementing Automatic Referral

Implementing Automatic Referral

Learn how to design, test, implement, and troubleshoot an automatic referral for CR within your hospital's electronic health record system.

Enhancing Care Coordination

Enhancing Care Coordination

Explore ways to establish or enhance your hospital's care coordination system, address the needs and concerns of patients, and facilitate CR enrollment and participation.

Expanding Cardiac Rehab Capacity

Implementing Hybrid CR To Expand Access and Capacity

Discover innovative approaches to drive enrollment in your hospital's CR program and assess whether to implement hybrid CR to reach more patients.

 

Additional Materials Available for Download

The training materials included within each of the above-listed, four focus areas are consolidated and streamlined versions of ten, expert-led, on-line trainings, originally presented live to over 100 hospitals as they worked in real time to implement proven strategies for increasing patient participation in their CR programs. Recordings of all ten expert-led sessions and PDF versions of supplementary materials for each are available for download below.

Additional TAKEheart resources available for download below include recordings and event summaries from TAKEheart Learning Community webinars that were originally held between 2020–2022. These webinars feature experts and CR champions from diverse hospitals sharing knowledge and strategies for addressing operational challenges associated with running CR programs as well for addressing the needs of traditionally underserved populations.

Original Training Modules

This module explores the benefits of CR for patients and hospitals and describes how the TAKEheart initiative can help hospitals improve utilization of CR.

Select to access the recording of the module and additional materials for module 1.

This module explains the organizational-level infrastructure and cultural changes needed to support quality improvement initiatives and provides guidance on two critical steps for getting started: assembling a multidisciplinary team and developing an action plan.

Select to access the recording of the module and additional materials for module 2.

This module describes how to map workflow processes and provides direction on redesigning those processes to accommodate changes for automatic referral and care coordination.

Select to access the recording of the module and additional materials for module 3.

This module provides guidance on assessing the data you have available for establishing a baseline for the project and assists with identifying and addressing gaps in data necessary to support the
project.

Select to access the recording of the module and additional materials for module 4.

This module provides direction on designing and implementing an automatic referral system.

Select to access the recording of the module and additional materials for module 5.

This module gives guidance on assessing the status of current care coordination activities and provides guidance on redesigning care coordination processes to make them more effective.

 Select to access the recording of the module and additional materials for module 6.

This module offers assistance and advice on common challenges faced with implementing an automatic referral system.

Select to access the recording of the module and additional materials for module 7.

This module provides guidance on implementing changes to enhance care coordination efforts.

Select to access the recording of the module and additional materials for module 8.

This module explores techniques and strategies for engaging CR patients.

Select to access the recording of the module and additional materials for module 9.

This module explores how a hybrid CR model can expand capacity and better support the needs of underrepresented populations.

Select to access the recording of the module and additional materials for module 10.

Related Webinars

This Learning Community webinar was designed to explore the collection and use of data within CR programs. Effective use of data is essential for CR programs and foundational to automatic referral systems and enhanced care coordination.

Select to view a recording of the webinar, the slides, and an event summary. 

This Learning Community webinar was designed to share insights about how to reinforce the value of CR and work collaboratively with physicians to raise referral and retention rates. Successes and challenges in expanding efforts to maximize physician support for CR are also discussed.

Select to view a recording of the webinar, the slides, and an event summary.

This webinar for hospitals with Cerner EHRs was led by a team of Cerner experts and provides answers to common implementation issues from both the clinical and IT perspectives.

Select to view a recording of the webinar, the slides, and a PDF of a Q&A session.

This webinar for hospitals with Epic EHRs was led by a team of Epic experts and provides answers to common implementation issues from both the clinical and IT perspectives.

Select to view a recording of the webinar, the slides, and a PDF of the Q&A session.

This Learning Community webinar shares care coordination improvement successes, challenges, and lessons learned and offers practical advice for other programs seeking to improve their own care coordination activities.

Select to view the webinar and slides of the materials.

This Learning Community webinar explores and shares insights with peers and offers practical ideas from a panel of CR program leaders, patients, and researchers focused on improving outcomes for women in cardiac rehabilitation.

Select to access a recording of the webinar, slides, and the event summary of the materials.

This Learning Community webinar provides an opportunity for peer-to-peer sharing on the challenges associated with engaging and retaining eligible patients in cardiac rehabilitation during and following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Select to access a recording of the webinar, slides, and the event summary of the materials.

This Learning Community webinar provides an opportunity for peer-to-peer sharing to explore how CR programs are supporting patients in between onsite visits. Discussion includes the best ways to blend onsite and remote CR rehabilitation.

Select to access a recording of the webinar, slides, and the event summary of the materials.

This Learning Community webinar explores how CR programs have responded to staffing challenges. Discussion includes reduced patient capacity, expanded hours for CR sessions, staffing reductions, and quarantines.

Select to access a recording of the webinar, slides, and the event summary of the materials.

This Learning Community webinar discusses how CR programs adapted their onsite operations as patients returned, as well as issues related to unit capacity, staffing, program hours, patient flow, and scheduling.

Select to access a recording of the webinar, slides, and the event summary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Page last reviewed February 2023
Page originally created October 2022

Internet Citation: Overview of TAKEheart Training Curriculum & Resources. Content last reviewed February 2023. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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