Digest 4 - Long-Term Care (Weekly - Thursday)
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Integrating Residents and Family Engagement Strategies Into Your Harm Reduction Efforts – Change Package
This Change Package for Nursing Home Partnership, prepared by Great Plains Quality Innovation Network, demonstrates how effectively implementing cross-cutting strategies can accelerate your improvement efforts and also includes the engagement of residents and their family members as active partners.
Guide to the Strengthening Your Hospital Surgical Care Framework
Telligen developed this comprehensive educational guide which focuses on the surgical continuum of care: pre-, intra- and post-operative processes. This guide assists hospitals and surgical care teams in examining surgical workflows, identifying practice gaps, and implementing best practices to prevent surgical site infections (SSIs), post-operative pulmonary embolism (PE) and/or deep-vein thrombosis (DVTs).
Diabetes Change Package
Qsource has created a diabetes change package specifically targeting several of our Partnerships for Community Health to help improve hemoglobin A1c rates in these communities. This toolkit includes printed resources, podcasts, and educational event recordings.
Social Drivers of Health: The Missing Link
This event sponsored by Qsource and with Madeline Wilson, Patient Safety and Quality Advisor for the Indiana Hospital Association, focuses on the use of Z codes and the impact on social drivers of health.
Faces of Sepsis ™
Faces of Sepsis™ stories allow those affected by sepsis to share their experiences of illness, treatment, recovery and loss and aim to capture the diversity of people who had sepsis. Some stories describe a quick recovery while others cover the long-term effects of post-sepsis syndrome (PSS).
Life After Sepsis Video
For patients that survive sepsis, life takes on new challenges that must be overcome together with doctors, spouses, family members and caregivers. This new informational video helps explain the common symptoms patients experience after surviving sepsis. Produced by Sepsis Alliance and the Society of Critical Care Medicine, Life After Sepsis provides practical tips for sepsis patients to follow so that they can get stronger, avoid readmission to the hospital and lead life to its fullest.
Sepsis and Aging
Adults aged 65 years and older are 13 times more likely to be hospitalized with sepsis than adults younger than 65, and 63% of older adults 60 years and older are admitted to the ICU present with sepsis upon admission. Like strokes or heart attacks, sepsis is a medical emergency that requires rapid diagnosis and treatment.