This data report, developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), demonstrates the progress of the National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes as of October 2023. The official measure of the Partnership is the percentage of long-stay nursing home residents who are receiving an antipsychotic medication, excluding those residents diagnosed with schizophrenia, Huntington's Disease or Tourette’s Syndrome.

Sepsis is a very dangerous response to an infection and can lead to tissue damage, organ failure and even death. Use this zone tool to conduct a daily assessment.

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.

Improving the entire patient journey to ensure better outcomes requires building a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence. Through process improvement, hospitals can adopt quality improvement models and evidence-based practices to systematically drive change and deliver safe high-quality equitable care.

This information sheet features the top infection control deficiencies identified by infection preventionists and suggestions on how to remediate each issue.

This webinar recording from the TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization describes a hospital and community health center collaboration that works to address the underlying needs of the patients who are most likely to become frequent visitors to hospital emergency rooms. The goal is to improve their quality-of-life outcomes and reduce readmissions while supporting substance users in central Houston.

Mountain Pacific Quality Health created a resource document to help navigate the CMS approved training options and chose which is best for your facility.

Opioid-related adverse events are a critical patient safety issue with added attention to preventing overuse. Health Quality Innovators (HQI) created a summary of resources, geared toward patients and caregivers, to support safe education.