This flyer, developed by TMF Quality Innovation Network, was created for health care providers to encourage patients, residents and staff to get the updated COVID-19 bivalent booster vaccine before the holiday season.
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).
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 Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for assistance.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed this resource for facilities that need enrollment guidance for the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) COVID-19 module.
Medicine Wheel Village, located on the Cheyenne River reservation, in Eagle Butte, SD, achieved impressive success in ensuring staff and residents are up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters; currently at 100 percent. Learn what interventions the nursing home implemented to reach this achievement.
This COVID-19 training, developed by the Montana Office of Rural Health & Area Health Education Center, covers a range of topics including a high-level view of prevention, symptoms, quarantine, testing, treatment, and variants. There is detailed information on vaccine hesitancy in the state of Montana as well as health equity for marginalized communities.
These interactive graphics, created by the National Institute of Health Care Management, allow readers to visualize increases in racial disparities and synthetic opioids during COVID-19. They also demonstrate how the crisis of overdose deaths involving opioid use has not only grown in magnitude since 2000, but has also changed in character.
Education and training around proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is essential. Knowledge gaps exist and proper techniques are not always implemented, especially when it comes to donning and doffing. If the appropriate protocol is not followed, healthcare workers and their patients are at increased risk.
SMP Health – St. Catherine North & South Campus in Fargo, ND, initiated a creative way to ensure understanding of proper donning and doffing techniques. This paper doll exercise helps team members demonstrate how to use PPE correctly.
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 series intended to help nursing homes use their Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) plan to improve resident COVID-19 booster rates.
This brief video, developed by TMF QIN-QIO, discusses the need to prepare for the flu season and to educate clinical staff and patients about why it's important that they get their vaccines.