Akhila G Belur | Scholars@Duke profile: Professional Activities

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

LIVESTRONG at the Y · 2015 Community Development , YMCA, Shrewsbury, MA flag

United States of America

Service to the Profession

Resident remediation committee · 2017 - 2018 Committee Service Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, MA

Multi-disciplinary patient care committee · 2011 - 2013 Committee Service Reliant Medical Group at Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, MA

Transitions of care committee · 2010 - 2011 Committee Service Reliant Medical Group at Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, MA

Collaboration with the primary care providers to improve follow up of hospitalized patients.

Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) · 2008 - 2010 Committee Service Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, MA

Service to Duke

QI project "discharge order by 9 am" · May 2023 - December 2023 Other

Spreading awareness to the hospitalist group at DRH regarding early discharge initiative. Assess the metrics "discharge order by 9 am" during a 6 month period with periodic sharing of performance of the group. Recognize the top performers for this metric and share the tricks for improvement in this metrics and evaluate if it would translate to improvement in early discharge and LOS.

Long LOS review committee · February 2023 - June 2023 Other Duke Regional Hospital,

Weekly review of long length of stay patients with hospital medicine leadership to brainstorm creative solutions.

Piloted afternoon Discharge Huddle on unit 5-1 · February 2022 - May 2022 Other Duke Regional Hospital,

Afternoon discharge huddle with case-manager, charge nurse and provider to improve early discharge.

Part of the team that launched "Discharge Lounge" · October 2021 Other Duke Regional Hospital,

Clinical Excellence Work Team (Clinical Organization) · July 2021 - December 2021 Committee Service Duke Regional Hospital,

Multi-disciplinary team and performance services collaborated to identify areas of improvement in workflow processes to improve MDR and geographic patient assignment.