Unit-Based Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Toolkit
Eastern US Quality Improvement Collaborative (EQIC) is pleased to share its unit-based patient safety and quality improvement toolkit, which provides guidance on strategies to engage frontline staff in quality improvement efforts, garner leadership support and develop a culture of safety through a unit-based approach. This multifaceted guide explores:
High Reliability Organization (HRO) Coaching Package
This coaching package, produced by Alliant Health Solutions, includes evidence-based interventions and links to resources as well as relevant webinars. This package covers a variety of categories including:
- Culture assessment
- Leadership
- HRO framework
- Staff education and training
- Process improvement tools and more
A Practical Guide for Advancing Health Equity
This change path can be used by hospitals to come up with plans to collect and report data for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)' three new measures:
Process Improvement Fundamentals
This document, developed by the Eastern US Quality Improvement Collaborative (EQIC), summarizes the fundamental elements of process improvement for hospitals. Through process improvement, hospitals can adopt quality improvement models and evidence-based practices to systematically drive change and deliver safe high-quality equitable care.
Leading Change (Roundtable)
This roundtable video, produced by Superior Health Quality Alliance, is a virtual learning and networking series that supports nursing homes across Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Developed for nursing home leadership, nursing home administrators, directors of nursing, infection preventionists and any interested nursing home staff to help increase education around emerging regulatory and clinical guidance, sharing best practices and engage in discussion around nursing home priority issues such as vaccinations and quality improvement approaches.
Behavioral Management (Roundtable)
This roundtable video produced by Superior Health Quality Alliance is a virtual learning and networking series that supports nursing homes across Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin was developed for nursing home leadership, nursing home administrators, directors of nursing and infection preventionists and any interested nursing home staff to help increase education around emerging regulatory and clinical guidance, sharing best practices and engage in discussion around nursing home priority issues such as vaccinations and quality improvement approaches.
Quality Insights Helps a Nursing Facility with Short-term Rehab Patients Achieve a 91.4 Percent COVID-19 Vaccination Rate
Quality Insights Helps a Nursing Facility with Short-term Rehab Patients Achieve a 91.4 Percent COVID-19 Vaccination Rate
A 96-bed, in-patient rehabilitation and nursing facility was referred by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to Quality Insights, a CMS Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), for assistance with increasing its resident COVID-19 vaccination rate.
Managing Nursing Home Residents Receiving Dialysis (Roundtable)
This roundtable video produced by Superior Health Quality Alliance is a virtual learning and networking series that supports nursing homes across Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin was developed for nursing home leadership, nursing home administrators, directors of nursing and infection preventionists and any interested nursing home staff to help increase education around emerging regulatory and clinical guidance, sharing best practices and engage in discussion around nursing home priority issues such as vaccinations and quality improvement approaches.
COVID-19 Response Series: Innovations from the Field Series 1
In light of the unprecedented effect the COVID-19 pandemic has had across the nation and in recognizing the unique challenges facing rural and critical access hospitals (CAHs), the Compass Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor Network team identified hospital successes related to COVID-19 response in Iowa, South Dakota, Mississippi and Kansas. The first in a series on COVID-19 response, Innovations from the Field, follows nine rural hospitals and highlights some of their successes, lessons learned and innovations big and small.
COVID-19 Partner Resources
This resource was developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to help health care providers stay informed about the latest materials and resources related to the COVID-19 vaccine. It is featured in the Quality in Action blog article Telligen’s One-on-One Technical Assistance Helps Two Nursing Homes Increase Education and Communication About COVID-19 Boosters to Improve Rates.