Small patient volumes in rural hospitals often distort quality data. By employing innovative methods to communicate low-frequency patient safety events that reflect these small volumes, we can more accurately share our safety story and highlight the outstanding work done in rural hospitals. The Convergence Health Infrequent Events Calculator can transform your data, offering insights that go beyond a run chart to effectively convey your quality and patient safety narrative! 

This partner feature highlights the relationship between Telligen and the Iowa Veterans Home including:

• How Telligen’s quality improvement tools and training opportunities assisted the Iowa Veterans Home
• 1:1 enhanced technical assistance provided by Telligen
• Testimonial from the Iowa Veterans Home on their experience working with Telligen

Sepsis remains the leading cause of hospitalization and hospital mortality, contributing to over a third of hospital deaths. Take part in working toward reducing sepsis mortality one week at a time through Telligen’s “call to action” series. These action items will empower the use of data in to understanding sepsis cases at your facility, support collaboration, increase awareness of evidence-based practices for sepsis prevention and engage patients and families. 

The Nursing Home Leadership Roundtable is a virtual learning and networking series, hosted by Superior Health Quality Alliance (Superior Health), intended for nursing home administrators, directors of nursing and infection preventionists, but open to any interested nursing home staff. This series allows nursing home leaders to learn about emerging regulatory and clinical guidance, share best practices and engage in discussion around nursing home priority issues.

This resource guide includes recommendations that follow the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Framework for Health Equity. Its tools and resources will help hospitals assess and improve their data collection, validation, and stratification activities associated with health equity; communicate findings throughout the organization and community; and provision resources to address and resolve gaps in care.

The Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Program 2021 Yearly Summary demonstrates how QIO Program initiatives support providers and local and tribal communities to improve health care quality, access, value and equity for people with Medicare. It provides a snapshot of the people, stories and data behind another year of challenges - and successes - in health care quality.