Prepared by IPRO HQIC
This resource provides rationale and talking points related to the importance of the HQIC health equity metrics.
Collecting REaL Data – Examples of How to Ask for REaL Data
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.
Health Equity Organizational Assessment (HEOA) Frequently Asked Questions
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
April 18, 2023 LAN Event – Using TAP Strategy for HAI Reduction: CAUTI, CLABSI, C. Diff, MRSA
Prepared by IPRO HQIC
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.
How to Rebuild, Reengage and Reenergize Your Patient and Family Advisory Council (PFAC)
Prepared by IPRO
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.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Explain the five Patient and Family Engagement metrics and other key measures of the Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor (HQIC) program.
- Discuss the PFAC infrastructure and the importance of listening to the patient’s voice to improve patient care.
- Illustrate how one hospital implemented training for the patient care team based on PFAC discussions and how the training has improved quality outcomes.
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IPRO HQIC Circle of Safety: All-Cause Harm Prevention Model & Resource Tool
Updated 5/11/22.
Prepared by IPRO HQIC
Learn about the Circle of Safety, an integrated approach using quality and patient safety best practices to improve care and prevent adverse events.
IPRO HQIC Fall and Injury Prevention: A 6-Part Webinar Series
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.
IPRO HQIC PFE LAN: Applying PFE Best Practice 5 to Reducing Unplanned Readmissions, June 2023
Prepared by IPRO HQIC
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.
Communicating With Doctors and Nurses While in the Hospital: A Tool for Patients and Family Caregivers to Improve Patient Safety
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.
Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers (INTERACT): Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers
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
Prepared by IPRO
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.
Buprenorphine Resource Guide
Prepared by IPRO
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.
AHA Series: Social Determinants of Health
Prepared by the American Hospital Association (AHA)
The AHA is working to support hospitals and health systems as they address social determinants of health, eliminate health care disparities and provide comprehensive care to every patient in every community—all of which improve community health.
This series is organized by topic, and currently includes modules for: food, housing, transportation, health behaviors, violence, and more.
Fall and Injury Prevention: Enhancing Capacity- Reengineering Fall and Fall Injury Programs: Infrastructure, Capacity and Sustainability
May 3, 2023 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Prepared by IPRO HQIC 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.
This program is appropriate for direct healthcare providers, managers, administrators, risk managers, educators, and researchers of any discipline who are involved in fall and fall injury prevention programs.
Your participation will
- Support organizational systems and teams to expand program infrastructure and capacity.
- Help you redesign your fall prevention and injury reduction program; Complement your evaluation program; and
- Provide access to an online learning community to increase exchange of experiences, innovations, and best practice implementations.
April 2023 Joint HQIC LAN – Transitions in Care: Preventing Sepsis-Related Readmissions
April 27, 2023 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Prepared by IPRO HQIC
Anyone can develop sepsis, a life-threatening, complex and challenging condition to manage. There are significant human and financial costs associated with it. Every year more than 1.7 million adults in the U.S. develop sepsis, leading to over 270,000 deaths. Roughly 19% of sepsis survivors are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days, leading to $3.1 billion in annual costs. Well-defined systems and processes across the continuum are crucial to delivering the right care at the right time to the right patient.
This event will feature proactive transitions in care and hand-off strategies to the next level of care provider to improve patient outcomes and prevent sepsis-related readmissions. The patient voice will be highlighted via a sepsis survivor story. Key discharge planning, patient and family engagement, health equity, infection prevention and patient education tactics will also be shared.
Learning Objectives:
Through this program, participants will:
- Review successful care coordination and partnership strategies across the care continuum to prevent sepsis-related hospital readmissions.
- Explore promising practices for overcoming challenges that affect handoffs to the next level of care.
- Learn how to engage patients and families as partners and integrate their health-related social needs into the discharge planning process to improve patient outcomes.
- Hear about a sepsis survivor story
Who Should Attend:
Nurses, Sepsis Coordinators, Care Coordinators, Front-line and Emergency Department Staff, Infection Preventionists, Clinical and Hospital Leaders, Physicians, Patient Safety and Quality Professionals.