ACS Quality Grand Rounds: Nationwide Children's Health (Live)

In this session, Erica Arnold, MD, with Nationwide Children's Hospital will share their QI initiative to reduce 30-Day ED Visits among pediatric patients with non-English language preference following appendectomies.

Join us November 16, 2026, at 10 am CT for this session of Quality Grand Rounds highlighting equity focused QI strategies for improving postop care for non-English language preference patients and families. Attendees will gain actionable insights for adapting these strategies across surgical populations to advance more equitable, accessible, and patient-centered care.

CME and CE credit will be available to eligible attendees. 

Contact:

Questions regarding the e-learning course or wish to be put in contact with the presenters, please contact Clinical Support at [email protected]

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, the learner should be able to:

    • Identify barriers that may contribute to disparities in postoperative care and emergency department utilization among patients and families with non-English language preference.
    • Describe equity-focused quality improvement strategies used to improve postoperative care following pediatric appendectomy.
    • Apply lessons from the presented initiative to develop or adapt strategies that improve equitable, accessible, and patient-centered postoperative care across surgical populations.

 

Course summary

Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 CE Contact hours
  • 1.00 Certificate of Completion
Course opens: 
11/16/2026
Course expires: 
01/15/2027

Disclosure Information

In accordance with the ACCME Accreditation Criteria, the American College of Surgeons must ensure that anyone in a position to control the content of the educational activity (planners and speakers/authors/discussants/moderators) has disclosed all financial relationships with any commercial interest (termed by the ACCME as “ineligible companies”, defined below) held in the last 24 months (see below for definitions). Please note that first authors were required to collect and submit disclosure information on behalf all other authors/contributors, if applicable.

Ineligible company

The ACCME defines an “ineligible company” as any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services used on or consumed by patients. Providers of clinical services directly to patients are NOT included in this definition.

Financial Relationships

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Conflict of Interest

Circumstances create a conflict of interest when an individual has an opportunity to affect CME content about products or services of an ineligible company with which he/she has a financial relationship.

The ACCME also requires that ACS manage any reported conflict and eliminate the potential for bias during the educational activity.  Any conflicts noted below have been managed to our satisfaction. The disclosure information is intended to identify any commercial relationships and allow learners to form their own judgments. However, if you perceive a bias during the educational activity, please report it on the evaluation. 

 

Disclosures:

Nicole Greene, BSN, RN
Part of planning committee and moderator for this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

Dr. Erica Arnold, MD

Speaker, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

 

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Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 CE Contact hours
  • 1.00 Certificate of Completion
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