Digest 4 - Long-Term Care (Weekly - Thursday)
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Persisting Through Complexity: Comagine Health Helps Nursing Home Overcome Vaccination Billing Challenges
Persisting Through Complexity: Comagine Health Helps Nursing Home Overcome Vaccination Billing Challenges
A midsize long-term care facility on the West Coast was referred by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to Comagine Health, a Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), for assistance with increasing nursing home resident COVID-19 vaccinations. Despite many facility residents agreeing and consenting to vaccination, the nursing home’s resident immunization rate was lagging several similar facilities in the region.
Integrating Residents and Family Engagement Strategies Into Your Harm Reduction Efforts – Change Package
This Change Package for Nursing Home Partnership, prepared by Great Plains Quality Innovation Network, demonstrates how effectively implementing cross-cutting strategies can accelerate your improvement efforts and also includes the engagement of residents and their family members as active partners.
Evolution of COVID-19 Vaccines
Why have there been so many COVID-19 vaccines since 2020? This infographic displays how the vaccines have to keep up with COVID-19 variants, starting from the initial variants to the current variants in circulation.
ABCs of COVID-19 Infection Prevention
An A through Z list of 26 COVID-19 infection prevention and control resources for nursing facility staff, complied by TMF Health Quality Institute.
A Person-Centered Journey to Immunity
TMF Health Quality Institute presents an enlightening Q&A that provides important medical perspectives from Dr. Clifford Moy, TMF Behavioral Health Medical Director and Melinda Quinn, a Health Care Quality Improvement Specialist at TMF on vaccines as well as some of the hesitancy and resistance some people have.
Cardiac Rehabilitation Resources in Multiple Languages
Cardiac rehabilitation is a medically supervised program designed to improve cardiovascular health for those who have experienced a heart attack, heart failure, angioplasty or heart surgery. Health Quality Innovators (HQI) created a patient-facing fact sheet describing the benefits of cardiac rehabilitation, costs and how patients can get started. Translated versions of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Fact Sheet are now available in Chinese, German, Spanish and Vietnamese.
The Why Behind Our Work: Serving Iowa’s Veterans
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
Long COVID: Reduce the Risk with the Right Resources
The Health Quality Innovation Network’s (HQIN) Simple Strategies Stand-Up webinar series for nursing home staff featured experts who discussed Long COVID/Post COVID Syndrome and how the COVID-19 vaccination can prevent long-term health effects of the disease.
Public Health Update with the Indiana Department of Health January 2024
In Qsource's Public Health Update, Dr. Shireesha Vuppalanchi, Medical Director of the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of the Indiana Department of Health, discusses new COVID-19 variants, current trends, hospitalizations, recommended vaccinations, and treatment for seasonal respiratory infections.