Shweta Gore is helping to get Boston Medical Center moving – at least from a mobility standpoint. 

The Associate Professor of Physical Therapy has just won the Learning Health Systems Rehabilitation Research Network (LeaRRn) Scholar Impact Award, an award honoring an individual who has made a meaningful and lasting impact on the health system in which they were embedded. LeaRRn facilitates partnerships between researchers, healthcare systems, and stakeholders to advance stakeholder-partnered, health systems research to improve quality of rehabilitative care and enhance patient and system outcomes.

As a LeaRRn scholar, Gore partnered with Boston Medical Center to understand how the health system worked and help the health system improve hospital patient mobility. Gore chose to work beyond the scholar year and secured a pilot grant as the primary investigator to help with successfully implementing and evaluating the Johns Hopkins Activity and Mobility Promotion approach (AMPTM) across all hospital units within Boston Medical Center. 

“We built a mobility goal calculator within Epic,” noted Gore. “All providers - physicians, nursing, rehab - see the patients mobility goal for the day on their screen and are expected to work towards ensuring the patient meets that goal. So, for example, if the goal for that day was standing, then if the physician had to auscultate a patient, they would do so standing and so on.” 

The implementation process was recently accepted for publication in the American Journal of Nursing. Gore is currently working with Boston Medical Center to analyze the data from this implementation and examine its impact on patient outcomes. Nominated by colleagues at Boston Medical Center, Gore will officially receive her Scholar Impact Award in April during the Learning Health Systems Rehabilitation Research Network webinar.