People often need two to four different medications to help manage their blood sugar. Mountain Pacific Quality Health created this resource to show how medications, other than insulin, work to control sugar levels in your blood. The medications listed in this resource helps control your blood sugar. Each of them works with a different part of the body.
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 that support this mission within hospitals by helping clinical teams increase patient safety, particularly preventing hospital-acquired infections (HAIs).
A small, 26-bed skilled nursing facility in California with an average daily census of 23 residents, was referred by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG), a CMS Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), for assistance with improving its resident COVID-19 bivalent booster rate.
This recording from the TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization focuses on hypertension, one of the risk factors for heart disease and stroke that can be controlled. During this recording, listeners will learn how to address this leading health challenge by using an evidence-based protocol, following clinical best practices, integrating team-based care and supporting patient self-measurement, where appropriate.
Listen to this recording to hear from TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) specialists as they discuss strategies for reducing readmissions and increasing patient and family engagement. This recording also addresses care transitions, the TMF QIN-QIO Patient and Family Engagement Network and the TMF QIN-QIO Partnership for Community Health Network.
This podcast is a conversation between Qsource and Todd Burkhardt, from the Indiana University Center for Rural Engagement (and Army veteran), who shares information about the Creative Arts for Veterans book, a guide for therapeutic art-making for veterans, those currently serving, and military-connected populations.
Like other healthcare institutions, health disparities exist in nursing homes. These disparities can have a significant impact on health outcomes such as infection rates, hospitalizations, readmission rates, and mortality. Given the increasing diversity of the aging population in the United States, it is important that there is equity in the quality of care being provided in nursing homes, and an understanding of the diverse needs of the older adults that are being served.
This resource provides information describing what naloxone is, how it works, why it is offered to individuals with an opioid prescription, and signs of opioid overdose. It is available in both Spanish and English.
To empower our nursing residential facilities with ongoing infection prevention support, Qsource has partnered with Viven Health to offer innovative interactive education. This cutting-edge program has not only been easy to use and implement, but also impactful. This program is available on any mobile device or computer, and over 250 nursing facilities across Indiana have welcomed the program with exceptional feedback.
