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.
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.
A nursing home in a large metropolitan area received technical assistance from Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG), a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), to improve its resident COVID-19 booster rate.
Two nursing homes struggling to increase their resident COVID-19 booster rate were referred to Telligen, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), for targeted technical assistance.
Prioritizing Equity in COVID-19 Vaccinations: Promising Practices from States to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities highlights promising actions states can take to promote equitable vaccination within historically marginalized communities, reduce systemic barriers to vaccine access, and improve race and ethnicity data to inform vaccine distribution.
These videos include answers to frequently asked questions about COVID-19 vaccines as well as three-minute explainer videos on vaccines and vaccine development.
These bite-sized videos in English and Spanish developed by Immunize Nevada answer frequently asked questions about the COVID-19 vaccine, address vaccine hesitancy and more.