TMF Doubles Nursing Home Attendance at Education Events with Five-Part QAPI Series
TMF Health Quality Institute, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), works with nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities in Arkansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, Puerto Rico and Texas to improve staff and resident COVID-19 vaccination and booster rates. To accomplish this, TMF provides technical assistance and…
Health Services Advisory Group’s Three-Pronged Approach Helps Nursing Homes Improve Vaccine Data Accuracy
Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG), a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Innovation Network–Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) helped more than 634 nursing homes in its two-state region improve the accuracy of their COVID-19 vaccine data in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN). With HSAG’s assistance, the…
IPRO’s Focus on Meeting Nursing Homes Where They Are Helps a New England Facility Improve its Resident COVID-19 Booster Rate by Nearly 75 Percent
Nestled among the rolling hills of New England sits a 93-bed nursing facility that is home to many of the area’s former priests and nuns. The facility, known for having embraced person-centered care long before the term was common, was struggling to increase its resident COVID-19 booster rate. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) referred the nursing home to IPRO, a CMS Quality…
Quality Insights’ Three-Part Webinar Series Teaches Nursing Homes How to Use QAPI to Improve Resident COVID-19 Booster Rates
Quality Insights’ goal is to provide support and meaningful webinar content to nursing homes. To meet this goal and to identify innovative ways to provide weekly COVID-19 infection control and vaccination/booster education to nursing homes, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) created a three-part webinar…
Nursing Home Boosts Vaccine Confidence and Improves Resident COVID-19 Booster Rates With Assistance from Health Services Advisory Group
A nursing home in a large metropolitan area received technical assistance from Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG), a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), to improve its resident COVID-19 booster rate. During initial contact with nursing home leadership, HSAG identified opportunities to build on the facility’s…
Telligen’s One-on-One Technical Assistance Helps Two Nursing Homes Increase Education and Communication About COVID-19 Boosters to Improve Rates
Two nursing homes struggling to increase their resident COVID-19 booster rate were referred to Telligen, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), for targeted technical assistance. As a result of this assistance, the facilities demonstrated a 74.9 percent and an 80.7 percent increase in resident booster rates,…
Nursing Home Improves Resident COVID-19 Booster Rates with Assistance from Great Plains Quality Innovation Network
A nursing home located on an Indian reservation received technical assistance from Great Plains Quality Innovation Network (Great Plains QIN), a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), to improve its resident COVID-19 booster rate. Through strategies which support vaccination and booster clinics and engagement in…
Superior Health’s Shine a Light on Stigma Campaign Highlights the Importance of Person-Centered Language to Improve Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Health care professionals have made great strides to improve treatment for individuals with substance use disorder (SUD). These include developing screening tools and implementing workflows to identify patients who need treatment. Other strategies include increasing the availability of treatment, adding recovery coaches and creating peer support groups to help guide patients to this care. Despite…
Limestone Medical Improves Hand Hygiene Rates with Electronic Monitoring System
Practicing hand hygiene is a simple and effective way to prevent infections. Yet, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), health care providers on average clean their hands less than half of the times they should. Additionally, on any given day, about one in 31 hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection (HAI). (1) Limestone Medical Center, a 20-…