One Hospital's Journey to a Culture of Health Equity: Lessons Learned from a Rural Community
Alliant Health Solutions, Iowa Healthcare Collaborative/Compass, IPRO and Telligen Hospital Quality Improvement Contractors (HQICs) created a virtual educational event to increase knowledge and awareness of health equity for HQIC hospital staff and HQIC quality improvement advisors, including quality and patient safety professionals.
New Hope, New Health: Charting a Path Forward
New Hope, New Health: Charting a Path Forward
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2022 Quality Conference virtually brought together nearly 5,000 health care leaders to share and hear promising practices for advancing health care quality, equity and safety at CMS and within the U.S. health care system.
Simple Strategies - Data Stratification
Stratifying data allows you to examine patient safety, quality, or outcome measures with an equity lens. It helps to determine if differences in patient outcomes exist, identify areas in need of quality improvement, and create targeted interventions. Data stratification can only be as successful if the data is collected consistently. Therefore, before data stratification can begin, there must be a robust data quality process to ensure reliable data.
Medicare and You Handbook
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) “Medicare & You” handbook is mailed to all Medicare households each fall. It includes a summary of Medicare benefits, rights, and protections; lists of available health and drug plans; and answers to frequently asked questions about Medicare.
Partnering with Representative Patient and Family Advisors to Achieve Health Equity
This webinar, produced by IPRO, was developed for hospitals to help them understand how to partner with diverse patient and family advisors who are representative of their patient population to improve patient safety for all populations. Viewers will learn: