Creating Safe Spaces to Build Staff Resiliency

This webinar recording, provided by Telligen, focuses on the power and potential of resiliency, connectedness, building confidence and finding motivation both individually and together as a team. Viewers will discover how to create safe spaces in their work environment for “timeout” and ways to incorporate self-care and team-care using diversity, equity and inclusion principles in order to reenergize their team. Viewers will also learn about:





Last Updated:
January 16, 2024


"Target, Assess, Prevent" - Strategy for Reducing Hospital Acquired Infections Learning Collaborative

This webinar recording, provided by Telligen, is from Telligen's learning collaborative for hospitals focused on reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs), Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSIs), and Clostridium difficile infections (CDIs). It features speakers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and highlights the Target, Assess, Prevent (TAP) strategy as a quality improvement framework that uses data for action to prevent hospita





Last Updated:
January 16, 2024


Lower Infections - Laundry and Food Services (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 suc





Last Updated:
January 30, 2024


The Importance of Immunizations for those with Chronic Conditions (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. 





Last Updated
June 05, 2024


Sepsis: Stop and Tell Early Warning Tool

This tool and resource produced by Great Plains Quality Innovation Network was developed to help family members and non-clinical staff (i.e., nutritional services, environmental services and maintenance), identify the early signs of sepsis. This tool is a ‘spin off’ of the Stop and Watch tool, an early warning tool to prompt staff to be alert for potential changes in condition indicators and offers a simple way to communicate changes to nursing staff.





Last Updated:
January 08, 2024


Community Engagement in Addressing Health Equity

This webinar recording, provided by Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG), is intended to help communities:

  • Understand the role of community engagement in addressing health equity
  • Identify state and national programs to address health equity
  • Identify programs designed to incentivize health equity




Last Updated:
January 08, 2024


HQI HQIC Facilitates CLABSI Interventions to Achieve Cost Savings of $2M

January 04, 2024

HQI HQIC Facilitates CLABSI Interventions to Achieve Cost Savings of $2M

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Program is dedicated to improving the quality of health care at the community level. Hospital Quality Improvement Contractors (HQICs) are strategic partners of the QIO Program dedicated to improving the quality of care delivered to people with Medicare in hospitals.

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2021 TMF HQIC HRO Education Series

This High Reliability Organization (HRO) Education Series, created by TMF Networks, is a collection of podcasts from 2021 highlighting insights and perspectives of quality and patient safety and health.




Last Updated:
March 25, 2024


Reducing Emergency Department Visits and 30-Day Readmission

This presentation, prepared by Mountain-Pacific Quality Health and presented by Dr. Douglas Kuntzweiler, discusses how to reduce resident visits to the emergency department as well as how to reduce the rate of 30-day readmissions. 





Last Updated:
January 01, 2024