Taking Healthcare By Storm Podcast with Tonya Barnett
This podcast was an interview with Tonya Barnett, who is a patient eager to share her story of the difficulties she has encountered while navigating the healthcare system. Tonya experiences chronic illness and disability and works a full-time job, which makes it very challenging for individuals to attend physician and other appointments.
TMF QIN’s Persistence and Focus on Partnership Helps Nursing Home Increase its Resident COVID-19 Vaccination Rate to 100 Percent
TMF QIN’s Persistence and Focus on Partnership Helps Nursing Home Increase its Resident COVID-19 Vaccination Rate to 100 Percent
In January 2023, a large metro-area facility in Texas was referred by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to TMF Quality Innovation Network (TMF QIN), a Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), to increase nursing home resident COVID-19 vaccinations. To make improvements, the 90-bed facility needed additional support and resources. By leveraging the expertise of TMF QIN, the facility increased its rate from 33.33 to 100 percent as reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) database in September 2023.
Performance Improvement Tracker Template
This Performance Improvement Tracker Template, created by TMF Health Quality Institute, was created to help health care providers measure and graph performance improvement measures. This Excel tool includes instructions and templates for data entry and graphs.
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:
Increasing Participation in Medicare Diabetes Prevention Programs
This webinar recording, provided by Telligen, is intended to help increase participation in diabetes prevention and diabetes self-management education/support programs (DPP/DSMES). By viewing this recording, viewers will:
- Understand the evidence for both DPP/DSMES
- Understand the eligibility for both DPP/DSMES
- Understand the referral process for both DPP/DSMES
