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This Learning Toolbox focuses on healthcare facilities collecting data on race, ethnicity, and language preference (REaL) as an important component of the provision of equity in the healthcare setting. It includes a quick primer on data collection, and provides links to articles, tools, and resources to educate providers on the importance of knowing the diverse patient population for which they provide care.
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This resource provides rationale and talking points related to the importance of the HQIC health equity metrics.
Prepared by IPRO Hospital Quality Improvement Contractors (HQIC), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Quality Improvement & Innovation Group
This Resource Guide provides examples on how best to collect race, ethnicity, and language data and ensure that it is being collected consistently.
Prepared by IPRO HQIC Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor (HQIC), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Quality Improvement & Innovation Group
Health Equity Organizational Assessment (HEOA) Frequently Asked Questions
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Addressing health-related social needs (or social drivers of health) can improve health outcomes. Health-related social needs include food insecurity, housing instability, transportation needs, utility difficulties, and interpersonal safety.
Join IPRO QIN-QIO for the Health-Related Social Needs Series to learn, collaborate, share best practices and lessons learned on how best to screen for, capture information about, and address social needs.
This series is comprised of six sessions from 12 to 12:45 pm ET on:
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Join us for a webinar featuring subject matter experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to learn about a comprehensive strategy to reduce hospital acquired infections (HAI). The Targeted Assessment for Prevention (TAP) Strategy is a CDC-developed framework for quality improvement that uses data to drive interventions that will prevent healthcare-associated infections. The TAP strategy targets healthcare facilities and specific units within facilities that have a disproportionate burden of HAIs so that prevention efforts can be prioritized and implemented where they will have the greatest impact. Our speakers will discuss the latest updates in the strategy and tools, including adaptation for smaller facilities.
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For healthcare workers, it is not of question of if, but when an emergency will strike. Emergencies can take many forms and are among the most disruptive experiences that healthcare workers might encounter. Being prepared not only saves lives, but can prevent financial and property loss, and ensure the safety and well-being of entire communities. Having a plan helps staff, patients, families, and residents know what to do, where to go, and how to keep themselves safe during an emergency, and ensures access to essential information and equipment. This Emergency Preparedness and Response Series, told through the lens of those who have experienced emergencies in their settings, will help you prepare and train for emergencies, and anticipate potential hazards when an emergency occurs.
Session 1 April 20, 2023 12 -1:00 PM ET When Things Get Real!
| In this real-world presentation, healthcare providers who have firsthand experience with emergency events will share their stories and insights to aid listeners in their own emergency planning | In this session participants will: ·Identify key components of emergency plans. ·Recognize, in comparison to the stories shared, if their emergency plans and staff are prepared for a real event. ·Apply actions and insights prompting review of their own EPPs. | Tracy Pate, Public Health Emergency Preparedness Specialist Stacey Radcliffe, LNHA Larkin Chase, MD |
Session 2 April 27, 2023 12 – 1:00 PM ET You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
| Collaboration is the key to success in preparing for and navigating an actual emergency. Hear the stories of those who have managed the emergency response during Hurricane Michael, a category 3-4 storm in October 2018, to ensure safety and success through collaboration with other organizations and partners. | In this session participants will: ·Recognize community partners who can have a positive impact on preparations and planning. ·Consider potential partners that should be brought into your organization’s plan. | Seth Maxwell Archibald Hospital, Thomasville, GA Julie Miller Phoebe Memorial Hospital, Albany, GA Sandi Cole FEMA Resource Specialist Health Care Coalition Member |
Session 3 May 4, 2023 12 – 1:00 PM ET The Impact of Trauma
| Community response to emergencies, whether fire, flood or natural disasters, can be traumatizing and harrowing for family, residents, patients and staff. The impact can be lasting, causing transfer trauma and even higher mortality for people living with dementia. This discussion will offer insights and strategies to lessen the impact. | In this session participants will: · Recognize the impact of traumatic emergencies on family, residents, patients and staff. · Identify preparations, education and training that might be needed now to mitigate problems during or after an emergency. | Vince Gildone-EMS Chief Sue Anne Bell |
Session 4 May 11, 2023 12 – 1:00 PM ET The Media at Your Door
| Our final session provides the opportunity to share, ask and hear from experts and other participants related to handling both local and national media and cameras right outside your door | In this session participants will: · Discuss some of the challenges and mitigation strategies they experience · Dealing with media and rumor control · Communicating with families, dealing with challenging situations, when the story turns negative on social media Staff policies for social media use | Tracy Pate, Public Health Emergency Preparedness Specialist Steve Bosso, Assistant Fire Chief, Twinsburg |
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In recent months, hospitals have begun to reengage their Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFACs) after the adverse impact that the COIVD-19 pandemic had on their healthcare systems, including the ability to have in-person PFAC meetings. As a result, some hospital PFACs are even better and stronger than ever before. Wills Memorial Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital (CAH) located in Washington, GA will present on the rebuilding and reenergizing of their PFAC, identifying and prioritizing several key areas of concern, and implementing projects based on greatest need.
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Updated 5/11/22.
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Learn about the Circle of Safety, an integrated approach using quality and patient safety best practices to improve care and prevent adverse events.
Prepared by IPRO in collaboration with Dr. Pat Quigley
Falls represent a major public health problem around the world and continue to be the most common adverse event in healthcare settings. The IPRO Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor (HQIC), in collaboration with Dr. Pat Quigley, Nurse Consultant, invites you to participate in a patient safety webinar program beginning May 3, 2023.
The Fall and Injury Prevention webinar series features six monthly webinars, each followed by open forum/coaching sessions from May through October 2023.
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The June PFE Learning and Action Event focuses on ways the implementation of patient and family advisory councils, or the inclusion of patient and family advisors on hospital committees, can be applied to your hospital’s efforts to reduce unplanned readmissions.
Prepared by the IPRO HQIC Patient Safety Committee
Two-way communication between clinicians and patients plays a critical role in delivering high-quality care and ensuring a positive experience. Developed by the IPRO HQIC Patient Safety Committee*, the goal of this tool is to help patients and their care partners clearly communicate with their healthcare team. Patients can use this tool to plan for and document conversations with a doctor or nurse. The tool has three sections: (1) a set of communication tips for patients; (2) a guide to help patients plan for conversations with their healthcare team; and (3) suggestions for how patients can use their notes from conversations with their health care team. Clinicians can also use this tool to invite and encourage patients to communicate clearly with their healthcare team so that they are partners in their care.
*The IPRO HQIC Patient Safety Committee is composed of patients, family caregivers, and quality improvement specialists from states participating in the IPRO HQIC.
Pathway Health: Project supported by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
INTERACT (Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers) is a quality improvement program that focuses on the management of acute change in resident condition. It includes clinical and educational tools and strategies for use in everyday practice in long-term care centers. INTERACT is designed to improve the early identification, assessment, documentation, and communication about changes in the status of residents. The goal of INTERACT is to improve care and reduce the frequency of potentially avoidable transfers to the acute hospital.
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Buprenorphine for Pain: A Transition Guide from Full Agonist Opioid Prescriptions is a tool intended to aid clinicians in switching patients off of full opioid agonists to buprenorphine, a partial mixed opioid agonist for pain management.
The information presented in this document should not be considered medical advice and is not a substitute for individualized patient or client care and treatment decisions.
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The Buprenorphine Resource Guide is a resource that contains the various FDA-approved formulations of buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder and pain management. This resource guide also includes a brief history of buprenorphine and explains its analgesic effects.
