CMS QI Voices
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Improvement (QI) Voices: Improving COVID-19 Outcomes in Nursing Homes Across America is an audio series that gives you a closer look at the projects and the people who are improving health care quality and outcomes.
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Reducing Hospital-Acquired Infections
About one in 31 hospital patients has at least one health care-associated infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The QIO Program's Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor (HQIC) initiative is engaging hospitals in quality improvement projects to prevent hospital-acquired infections and increase patient safety.
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Health Care Providers:
Help your patients build COVID-19 vaccine confidence with these tips and resources.
Free Scenario Based Training: CMS Targeted COVID-19 Training for Frontline Nursing Home Staff & Management
Available through the CMS Quality, Safety & Education Portal (QSEP).
2023 CMS Quality Conference
May 01
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Conference is the nation’s premier health care quality conference. The 2023 conference will be held…
- Quality Improvement Initiatives (QII)
- QIN-QIO
- BFCC-QIO
- HQIC
- AIANHQI
- OPSS
- CMS
- Training
- Behavioral Health
- Health Equity
- Chronic Disease Management
- Health Information Technology (HIT)
- Care Coordination
- COVID-19 and Infection Control
- Immunizations
- Long-term Care - Nursing Homes
- Opioid Utilization and Misuse
- Patient and Family Engagement
- Patient Safety
- Partnership for Community Health
Transitions in Care: Preventing Sepsis-related Readmissions
April 27
Anyone can develop sepsis, a life-threatening, complex and challenging condition to manage. There are significant human and financial costs associated with it. Every…
- Chronic Disease Management
- DVA Learning and Action Networks
- HQIC
- Patient Safety
- Patient and Family Engagement
HQIC Community of Practice Call | Connecting your Hospital Culture of Safety to Patient Harm Reduction
April 13
According to the February 2022 New England Journal of Medicine, improvements in patient safety were quickly and severely reversed during the COVID-19 pandemic,…
- COVID-19 and Infection Control
- Patient Safety
- Care Coordination
- DVA Learning and Action Networks