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Sustainability Plan Worksheet

An improvement team needs to consider long-term sustainability of an improvement effort. This worksheet will help you outline the elements needed for a sustainability plan for your proposed evidenced-based quality and/or safety program design by taking you through a series of questions. By answering these questions, you will be able to develop a plan to ensure the longevity of the expected improvements from your proposed quality and/or safety program stick long-term.

For each category, use the questions provided to help you draft the necessary components that will be needed in a sustainability plan. Use one or two concise sentences to inform on each bullet point/question. Provide scholarly and peer-reviewed support accordingly.

Areas for Consideration	Detailed Plan
Measurement After project completion: What will you continue to measure? What will you stop measuring? What will you do if you see a negative effect? What will you do if you see clinical significance, but not statistical significance?
Ownership Who will own the new process that was implemented? How will you tell if the person is engaged and onboard with the improvement process?
Communication How will you communicate about the change and who will be the messenger? When will communication take place? How will you support individuals in the new process? What type of training will you use after project completion? Who will be responsible for that training?
Change Management How will you respond to resistance/barriers to change ("But this is how we have always done things.") How would you use your evidence-based change model to ensure adoption and sustainability? How will you standardize the process so that it is easy to do the "new" right thing?
Workload Is the change increasing the overall workload to the system? If so, how can you decrease the workload? If not, how will you communicate about what is changing and not changing?

Adapted from "Sustainability Planning Worksheet" by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (2019).

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