Sepsis: Stop and Tell Early Warning Tool

This tool and resource produced by Great Plains Quality Innovation Network was developed to help family members and non-clinical staff (i.e., nutritional services, environmental services and maintenance), identify the early signs of sepsis. This tool is a ‘spin off’ of the Stop and Watch tool, an early warning tool to prompt staff to be alert for potential changes in condition indicators and offers a simple way to communicate changes to nursing staff.





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January 08, 2024


Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) Updates, Audits and Infection Control

The Nursing Home Leadership Roundtable is a virtual learning and networking series, hosted by Superior Health Quality Alliance, 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.





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January 08, 2024


Partnering with Families Using Motivational Interviewing

The Nursing Home Leadership Roundtable is a virtual learning and networking series, hosted by Superior Health Quality Alliance, 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.





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January 08, 2024


Influenza Vaccination for Health Care Personnel

The Nursing Home Leadership Roundtable is a virtual learning and networking series, hosted by Superior Health Quality Alliance, 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 video recording provides didactic education followed by open discussion and Q&A on nursing-home related topics including:





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June 05, 2024


How to Take a Blood Pressure (Roundtable)

The Nursing Home Leadership Roundtable is a virtual learning and networking series, hosted by Superior Health Quality Alliance, intended for nursing home administrators, directors of nursing and infection preventionists, but are 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.





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May 23, 2024


Public Health Emergency Preparedness: Emerging Infectious Disease

The Nursing Home Leadership Roundtable is a virtual learning and networking series, hosted by Superior Health Quality Alliance, intended for nursing home administrators, directors of nursing and infection preventionists, but are 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.





Last Updated:
January 08, 2024


Simple Approaches for Abuse Prevention

The Nursing Home Leadership Roundtable is a virtual learning and networking series, hosted by Superior Health Quality Alliance, intended for nursing home administrators, directors of nursing and infection preventionists, but are 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.





Last Updated:
January 08, 2024


HQI HQIC Facilitates CLABSI Interventions to Achieve Cost Savings of $2M

January 04, 2024

HQI HQIC Facilitates CLABSI Interventions to Achieve Cost Savings of $2M

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 dedicated to improving the quality of care delivered to people with Medicare in hospitals.

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QAPI 101 Mini Collaborative

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Telligen is offering Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) 101 Mini Collaborative

Emergency Preparedness Exercise Design and Evaluation

This four-part series, provided by Superior Health Quality Alliance, is an introduction to Emergency Preparedness Exercise Design and Evaluation and intended to give the audience an understanding of key definitions and the steps needed to create, conduct and evaluate an exercise that will meet the exercise requirements for CMS regulated organizations. The intended audience is nursing home administrators, directors of nursing and other staff involved in emergency planning. This series:




Last Updated:
January 02, 2024