HSAG’s “At the Elbow” Technical Assistance Helps Nursing Home Increase its Resident COVID-19 Bivalent Booster Rate

September 21, 2023

HSAG’s “At the Elbow” Technical Assistance Helps Nursing Home Increase its Resident COVID-19 Bivalent Booster Rate

A small, 26-bed skilled nursing facility in California with an average daily census of 23 residents, was referred by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG), a CMS Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), for assistance with improving its resident COVID-19 bivalent booster rate.

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Patient and Family Engagement Strategies for Reducing Readmissions

Listen to this recording to hear from TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) specialists as they discuss strategies for reducing readmissions and increasing patient and family engagement. This recording also addresses care transitions, the TMF QIN-QIO Patient and Family Engagement Network and the TMF QIN-QIO Partnership for Community Health Network.





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Antipsychotic Medication Use Data Report

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.




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The Healthy Living Blog

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.





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Creating Pathways to Stability

This webinar recording from the TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization describes a hospital and community health center collaboration that works to address the underlying needs of the patients who are most likely to become frequent visitors to hospital emergency rooms. The goal is to improve their quality-of-life outcomes and reduce readmissions while supporting substance users in central Houston.





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Opioids and the Age-Friendly Health System Framework

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.





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How to Rebuild, Reengage and Reenergize Your Patient and Family Advisory Council (PFAC)

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In recent months, hospitals have begun to reengage their Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PF

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