Lindsay K. Summer
April 2022
Lindsay K.
Summer
,
APRN
BayCare Urgent Care
Clearwater, 33759
,
FL
United States
Lindsay engaged her APRN team and guided them through this new terrain and created a successful program that must adapt each day to the needs of health system patients.
Lindsay is the Director of Clinical Services for BayCare Urgent Care. In 2021 and early 2022, Lindsay led a team of APRNs that have pioneered several programs inside of BayCare that had not been done before. Working with the BUC and BCHC medical director as well as Home Health Regional clinical directors, Lindsay participated in the development of the Transitional Care Management Program – a program in which APRNs conduct virtual H&Ps and then virtually care for patients in home health who do not yet have an ongoing primary care relationship. This ensures that patients don’t get stuck in hospitals without a safe plan of care at home and oversees care until a warm handoff of the patient can be made to new PCP.
Lindsay engaged her APRN team and guided them through this new terrain and created a successful program that must adapt each day to the needs of health system patients. Lindsay was also instrumental in developing and leading her team through the implementation of the “BayCare at Home” program. This BayCare-branded program is better known around the US as a “hospital at home” or “acute care at home” model. Patients are identified in an ED as needing acute care, but stable enough to receive that care at home with both nursing and medical oversight for several days. Diagnostic testing and labs can be ordered, infusion therapies and home medical equipment delivered, and nursing care provided in person and via video. This new program took enormous leadership of APRNs, home health nurses and medical professionals in hospital EDs and observation units, as well as primary care offices where ED visits could be avoided with rapid deployment of BayCare at Home.
Lindsay always exhibits good judgment, good humor and calm leadership. She epitomizes a leader who cares for and about patients across the full bio-psycho-social-spiritual spectrum. She has sought funds for food or medicines and offered her own funds to ensure a patient could get needed care and stay at home. Lindsay is an excellent teacher and wonderful collaborator and is deserving of this DAISY Leader Award for her work with nurses and others at all levels of our organization.
Lindsay engaged her APRN team and guided them through this new terrain and created a successful program that must adapt each day to the needs of health system patients. Lindsay was also instrumental in developing and leading her team through the implementation of the “BayCare at Home” program. This BayCare-branded program is better known around the US as a “hospital at home” or “acute care at home” model. Patients are identified in an ED as needing acute care, but stable enough to receive that care at home with both nursing and medical oversight for several days. Diagnostic testing and labs can be ordered, infusion therapies and home medical equipment delivered, and nursing care provided in person and via video. This new program took enormous leadership of APRNs, home health nurses and medical professionals in hospital EDs and observation units, as well as primary care offices where ED visits could be avoided with rapid deployment of BayCare at Home.
Lindsay always exhibits good judgment, good humor and calm leadership. She epitomizes a leader who cares for and about patients across the full bio-psycho-social-spiritual spectrum. She has sought funds for food or medicines and offered her own funds to ensure a patient could get needed care and stay at home. Lindsay is an excellent teacher and wonderful collaborator and is deserving of this DAISY Leader Award for her work with nurses and others at all levels of our organization.