This fact sheet was developed by the Alzheimer's Association to provide health care providers information about the behavioral and psychotic symptoms (BPSD) individuals with dementia often experience during the course of their disease and approaches to care that are utilized.
This booklet was developed by the Alzheimer's Association to provide both health care providers and families with information about Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
The COVID-19 Boosters: It’s Worth a Shot Presentation for Resident & Family Council Meetings is a PowerPoint presentation developed by the IPRO QIN-QIO to help nursing homes provide education to resident and family councils about COVID-19 boosters. The presentation can be modified by nursing homes to provide up to date COVID-19 booster information. The content has been provided in everyday language to help facilities use a train the trainer approach to allow for resident and family council leaders to provide the education.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Assurance & Performance Improvement (QAPI) website offers tools & resources to help nursing homes improve the quality of life and quality of care and services delivered to r
Ready.Set.Go! is a tool developed by Convergence HQIC to help hospitals enhance the critical processes that connect pre-admission encounters to bedside rounding for a successful discharge. Patients, family caregivers, hospital staff and state partners from Convergence HQIC collaborated in a dynamic process to develop the tool and help hospitals build connections between these three touch points in the patient journey to improve outcomes and reduce readmissions.
This resource, developed by Great Plains Quality Innovation Network (QIN), was created to educate health care providers and their teams about the teach-back method. The teach-back method ensures patients understand what they need to know or do regarding their health by asking them to state in their own words what a provider has told them they need to know or do. Many of these documents can be modified to the fit the needs of an individual provider or care team.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed answers to frequently asked questions about central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) to help patients understand what an CLABSIs are and how they are treated, understand the steps hospitals are taking to prevent CLABSIs and outline steps patients can take to help prevent CLABSIs.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed answers to frequently asked questions about ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) to help patients understand what VAP is and how its treated, understand the steps hospitals are taking to prevent VAP and outline steps patients can take to help prevent VAP.
