People often need two to four different medications to help manage their blood sugar. Mountain Pacific Quality Health created this resource to show how medications, other than insulin, work to control sugar levels in your blood. The medications listed in this resource helps control your blood sugar. Each of them works with a different part of the body.
Listen to this recording to hear from TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) specialists as they discuss strategies for reducing readmissions and increasing patient and family engagement. This recording also addresses care transitions, the TMF QIN-QIO Patient and Family Engagement Network and the TMF QIN-QIO Partnership for Community Health Network.
Like other healthcare institutions, health disparities exist in nursing homes. These disparities can have a significant impact on health outcomes such as infection rates, hospitalizations, readmission rates, and mortality. Given the increasing diversity of the aging population in the United States, it is important that there is equity in the quality of care being provided in nursing homes, and an understanding of the diverse needs of the older adults that are being served.
This resource provides information describing what naloxone is, how it works, why it is offered to individuals with an opioid prescription, and signs of opioid overdose. It is available in both Spanish and English.
This document provides sample language hospitals can use when identifying or recruiting a PFE Leader. It provides a description of the role, sample responsibilities and qualifications. Sample language can be copied and used in web or printed materials.
This resource will help hospital leaders and staff understand:
This toolkit provides hospital quality and safety staff with examples of how each of the five PFE Best Practices can be applied as strategies to reduce all-cause harms. Offers a general model of patient and family engagement and all-cause harm reduction. PFE/Harms crosswalks are available by PFE Best Practice or by harm area.
This tool helps patients and family members communicate with clinical staff throughout their hospital stay; Includes tips for effective communication and a planning tool to help patients/family members plan for each interaction and actively participate in care. Includes a section for hospital clinical staff.
Mountain Pacific Quality Health created the materials in this handout to provide guidance for any emergency level.
The Healthy Living blog is a series of articles created by Mountain Pacific Quality Health (MPQH) featuring a wide variety of health and health care issues to empower patients and their families, giving them the information, education and expert insight, they need to become an active participant in our ever-changing health care climate.