Q&A with Donna Thorson, Shannon Finegood and Linda Griskell at Comagine Health 

COVID-19 vaccine access and uptake has been identified as a challenge for nursing homes. What was your vision and plan to improve vaccine access and uptake?

 At Comagine Health, we are aiming to increase access to, uptake of and confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine, including the booster, among long-term and post-acute care residents and staff.

The Health Quality Innovation Network team, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor, partners with health care providers in Kansas, Missouri, South Carolina and Virginia to support their quality improvement efforts. This includes spreading best practices to help other facilities achieve similar successes.

Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG), the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for Arizona and California, started working on Motivational Interviewing in the spring of 2021 as a tool to help nursing homes improve uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Slow vaccine uptake at nursing homes has been identified as a key challenge. Given that, how did you choose Motivational Interviewing as a technique to help overcome vaccine hesitancy?

Q&A with Cheri Fast, RN, BSN, CIC, Project Lead 

Infection prevention and control is fundamental to safer care, improved health outcomes and a reduction in costs.

A Q&A with Charisse Coulombe, HQIC Program Manager and Melissa Perry, HQIC Project Coordinator