The Telligen Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor (HQIC) program connects over 190 small, rural and critical access hospitals from across the country to engage in activities that improve patient safety and quality of care. To address the isolation prevalent in rural healthcare communities, Telligen established a virtual platform for peer-to-peer networking known as the Quality Collective: Sharing Stories from the Field.

Reducing preventable 30-day hospital readmissions is a priority for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. As a CMS Quality Improvement Organization, Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG) is committed to improving the quality of care delivered in each state. HSAG met with providers to produce an overview of care coordination best-practices to avert hospital readmissions.

Cut out these sepsis badge cards to insert in nursing home staff badge holders.

• Infection and Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS)
• Medical Emergency

Health Quality Innovator’s Daily Strategies for Use During Nursing Home Stand-Up Meetings resource is a 9-week education series tailored for nursing home stand-up meetings. Each week of the series contains five short, concentrated evidence-based talking points for use in daily stand-up meetings on a variety of topics, including strategies to reduce healthcare acquired infections.

The long-term care sepsis screening tool was created by Superior Health to help skilled nursing facilities identify residents with sepsis. It is recommended to complete the screening upon admission, with any new suspected or confirmed infections and any change in condition. Superior Health also created a two-part video series on the early recognition and management of sepsis in the long-term care setting and how to start a sepsis Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) project.

Small patient volumes in rural hospitals often distort quality data. By employing innovative methods to communicate low-frequency patient safety events that reflect these small volumes, we can more accurately share our safety story and highlight the outstanding work done in rural hospitals. The Convergence Health Infrequent Events Calculator can transform your data, offering insights that go beyond a run chart to effectively convey your quality and patient safety narrative!