Alliant Health Solutions Helps Skilled Nursing Facility with High Turnover Population Achieve a 100 Percent COVID-19 Booster Rate
A small, hospital-based skilled nursing facility (SNF) was referred by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to Alliant Health Solutions (Alliant), a CMS Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), for assistance with increasing its resident COVID-19 booster rate. The QIN-QIO conducted a root-cause analysis (RCA) and helped the SNF use the Plan-Do-Study…
TMF’s Persistence Helps Nursing Home Increase its Resident COVID-19 Booster Rate by More Than 50 Percent
A small nursing home in a Midwest suburb struggling to increase its resident COVID-19 booster rate was referred by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to TMF, a CMS Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for assistance. With TMF’s help, the nursing home demonstrated a 53.5 percent increase in its resident COVID-19 booster rate from when it was…
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…