Improving patient safety has always been the top priority for hospitals and is fundamental to delivering quality health services. Hospitals should assess their processes, identify optimization opportunities, and implement evidence-based practices to cultivate a culture of safety. This document provides topic-specific resources to address hospital based patient safety topics.
This Personal Health Record form modified by TMF Health Quality Institute, a Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization, through which patients can maintain and manage their health information (and that of others for whom they are authorized) in a private, secure, and confidential environment. Patients and caregivers are encouraged to download this personal health form to take with you to your doctor visits.
Official NQIIC outreach materials require publication numbers and disclaimers. Outreach materials are products (electronic or hard copy) that will be distributed outside NQIIC to any audience, including health professionals, stakeholders, information intermediaries, Medicare beneficiaries and media organizations or their representatives.
Official NQIIC outreach materials require publication numbers and disclaimers. Outreach materials are products (electronic or hard copy) that will be distributed outside NQIIC to any audience, including health professionals, stakeholders, information intermediaries, Medicare beneficiaries and media organizations or their representatives.
In January 2022, a nursing home that had previously received technical assistance from Superior Health Quality Alliance (Superior Health) to improve nursing home resident COVID-19 initial vaccination series rates was referred again to Superior Health for assistance with improving its resident COVID-19 booster rate.
In January 2022, a nursing home that had not had any COVID-19 cases for more than a year was referred to Health Quality Innovators (HQI) for assistance with improving its resident COVID-19 booster rate and responding to a sudden COVID-19 outbreak. The nursing home demonstrated a 62.7 percent increase in booster rates from when the facility was first referred to HQI and the last report to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) database in May 2022.
CDC Project Firstline is a national collaborative of diverse health care, public health and academic partners committed to providing infection control training designed especially for health care workers.
The Patient and Family Advisory Council (PFAC) Roadmap to Success was created to help hospitals authentically engage patients and families as valued care partners, as well as to ensure that patients and families are at the center of care decisions and care is individualized to address the specific needs of patients.
This resource was developed by TMF Quality Innovation Network (QIN), the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for Arkansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Northern Mariana Islands, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Texas and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was created to give community health workers and health care providers an easier way to share information about medications with their patients who have diabetes.
