Digest 4 - Long-Term Care (Weekly - Thursday)
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Persisting Through Complexity: Comagine Health Helps Nursing Home Overcome Vaccination Billing Challenges
Persisting Through Complexity: Comagine Health Helps Nursing Home Overcome Vaccination Billing Challenges
A midsize long-term care facility on the West Coast was referred by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to Comagine Health, a Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), for assistance with increasing nursing home resident COVID-19 vaccinations. Despite many facility residents agreeing and consenting to vaccination, the nursing home’s resident immunization rate was lagging several similar facilities in the region.
Integrating Residents and Family Engagement Strategies Into Your Harm Reduction Efforts – Change Package
This Change Package for Nursing Home Partnership, prepared by Great Plains Quality Innovation Network, demonstrates how effectively implementing cross-cutting strategies can accelerate your improvement efforts and also includes the engagement of residents and their family members as active partners.
Long COVID: Reduce the Risk with the Right Resources
The Health Quality Innovation Network’s (HQIN) Simple Strategies Stand-Up webinar series for nursing home staff featured experts who discussed Long COVID/Post COVID Syndrome and how the COVID-19 vaccination can prevent long-term health effects of the disease.
Social Drivers of Health: The Missing Link
This event sponsored by Qsource and with Madeline Wilson, Patient Safety and Quality Advisor for the Indiana Hospital Association, focuses on the use of Z codes and the impact on social drivers of health.
Heart Health for Older Adults Using a Lifestyle Medicine Approach
At Qsource's February 2024 LAN Event for Heart Health Month, Kelly Freeman, MSN, AGPCNP-BC, speaks on healthy lifestyle interventions for chronic disease management and prevention.
Leading a Quality Improvement Project
This guide can be used with Eastern US Quality Improvement Collaborative's (EQIC) Unit-based patient safety and quality improvement toolkit to keep your quality improvement projects organized and on task and produce meaningful outcomes.
Quality Improvement Primer
Eastern US Quality Improvement Collaborative (EQIC) compiled a selection of key resources to use for your quality improvement work. Please use these tools as a primer for onboarding new quality staff and continuing education for all staff in the following clinical and patient safety areas.
Faces of Sepsis ™
Faces of Sepsis™ stories allow those affected by sepsis to share their experiences of illness, treatment, recovery and loss and aim to capture the diversity of people who had sepsis. Some stories describe a quick recovery while others cover the long-term effects of post-sepsis syndrome (PSS).
Life After Sepsis Video
For patients that survive sepsis, life takes on new challenges that must be overcome together with doctors, spouses, family members and caregivers. This new informational video helps explain the common symptoms patients experience after surviving sepsis. Produced by Sepsis Alliance and the Society of Critical Care Medicine, Life After Sepsis provides practical tips for sepsis patients to follow so that they can get stronger, avoid readmission to the hospital and lead life to its fullest.
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