Great Plains QIN COVID Staff Vaccination Ambassador Program
Great Plains Quality Innovation Network launched a COVID-19 Staff Vaccination Ambassador Program to support COVID-19 vaccination efforts and recognize community-based organizations, healthcare providers and nursing homes with high staff vaccination rates throughout North Dakota and South Dakota. The program recognizes and applaud those organizations that have a current COVID-19 staff vaccination rate of 75% or greater.
Podcast Series on Evidence-Based Pain Management Alternatives for an Older Population
The Pain Management Podcasts series, featuring Clifford Moy, MD, the behavioral health medical director at TMF Health Quality Institute, and Lindsay Botsford, MD, MBA, CMQ, FAAFP, the market medical director for Iora Health in Houston, and a clinical associate professor of the Department of Clinical Science at the University of Houston College of Medicine, explores different evidence-based pain management alternatives.
Influenza and Pneumococcal Nursing Home Quality Measure Video Series
The Nursing Home Quality Measure Video Series was created to assist in the understanding of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) and claims-based Quality Measures that comprise the Nursing Home Quality Measure Star Rating. The goal is for nursing homes to attain a Five Star Quality Measure rating. These short videos will aid in understanding the Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports (CASPER) and the Quality Measures; videos can be viewed individually or as series.
The Value of the Lived Experience of Front Line Caregivers, Patients and Families in Reducing Hospital-Associated Harm
The Value of the Lived Experience of Front Line Caregivers, Patients and Families in Reducing Hospital-Associated Harm
After years of steady improvement in hospital-acquired conditions, the COVID-19 pandemic brought hospitalization surges, staffing shortages, and family visitation limits that worsened patient outcomes. Convergence, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor (HQIC), set out to better understand what contributed to the rise in hospital-associated harm at the beginning of the pandemic and how such harms could be prevented in the future.
Superior Health Quality Alliance Online Forum Gives Clinicians a Place to Connect
Superior Health Quality Alliance Online Forum Gives Clinicians a Place to Connect
What if there was a place for Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) participants from across the care continuum to gather? A place to share ideas, to network, to learn from and engage with one another? A place for the QIN-QIO to meet participants on their terms to share resources and spark conversations? In short, a place to connect.
An Online Community of Practice
