This recording from the TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization focuses on hypertension, one of the risk factors for heart disease and stroke that can be controlled. During this recording, listeners will learn how to address this leading health challenge by using an evidence-based protocol, following clinical best practices, integrating team-based care and supporting patient self-measurement, where appropriate.

This podcast is a conversation between Qsource and Todd Burkhardt, from the Indiana University Center for Rural Engagement (and Army veteran), who shares information about the Creative Arts for Veterans book, a guide for therapeutic art-making for veterans, those currently serving, and military-connected populations.

This toolkit provides hospital quality and safety staff with examples of how each of the five PFE Best Practices can be applied as strategies to reduce all-cause harms. Offers a general model of patient and family engagement and all-cause harm reduction. PFE/Harms crosswalks are available by PFE Best Practice or by harm area.

This data report, developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), demonstrates the progress of the National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes as of October 2023. The official measure of the Partnership is the percentage of long-stay nursing home residents who are receiving an antipsychotic medication, excluding those residents diagnosed with schizophrenia, Huntington's Disease or Tourette’s Syndrome.

The Healthy Living blog is a series of articles created by Mountain Pacific Quality Health (MPQH) featuring a wide variety of health and health care issues to empower patients and their families, giving them the information, education and expert insight, they need to become an active participant in our ever-changing health care climate.

Listen to this webinar recording from the TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization to learn about strategies to address opioid misuse within the elderly population using the Age-Friendly Health System framework.

Mountain Pacific Quality Health hosts a two-session webinar on Workplace Violence: Decreasing the Risk of Moving from Agitation to Aggression. Session one discusses precursors to agitation and aggression, and how to deescalate a situation before it becomes violent. Session two covers appropriate responses for staff in highly emotional interactions and examines debriefing steps after such encounters.   

Opioid-related adverse events are a critical patient safety issue with added attention to preventing overuse. Health Quality Innovators (HQI) created a summary of resources, geared toward patients and caregivers, to support safe education.

In efforts to encourage people first language, Telligen has created an easy reference that can be kept on a badge reel or in your wallet.

This collaborative series, developed by Superior Health Quality Alliance and Telligen, in an effort to reduce stigma related to Substance Use Disorder (SUD) by addressing and understanding that SUD is a chronic condition and not a moral failing. This podcast series is intended for all care settings and the general public.