Superior Health Quality Alliance wants to celebrate the efforts and commitment of organizations in promoting COVID-19 vaccinations for their staff. In this Youtube video, the Superior Health QIO staff shares why they received the COVID-19 vaccine.
The HQIN COVID-19 Vaccination Tracking Tool supports nursing homes in tracking COVID-19 vaccine administration for residents and staff. It includes boosters, additional doses and exemptions. It is an Excel workbook to use as a template, with instructions for use, for nursing homes to self-report data on their COVID-19 Vaccinations in residents and staff/healthcare personnel (HCP).
CMS urges nursing homes to take advantage of targeted COVID-19 training. This is the free course available on Quality Safety & Education Portal (QSEP) that offers modules for both front-line staff and management staff.
Great Plains Quality Innovation Network launched a COVID-19 Staff Vaccination Ambassador Program to support COVID-19 vaccination efforts and recognize community-based organizations, healthcare providers and nursing homes with high staff vaccination rates throughout North Dakota and South Dakota. The program recognizes and applaud those organizations that have a current COVID-19 staff vaccination rate of 75% or greater.
After years of steady improvement in hospital-acquired conditions, the COVID-19 pandemic brought hospitalization surges, staffing shortages, and family visitation limits that worsened patient outcomes. Convergence, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor (HQIC), set out to better understand what contributed to the rise in hospital-associated harm at the beginning of the pandemic and how such harms could be prevented in the future.