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. 

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.

Dr. Shireesha Vuppalanchi, Medical Director of the Office of Chief Medical Officer at the Indiana Department of Health, returns as Qsource's guest speaker for our March Public Health Update. Topics discussed in this webinar include the impacts of COVID-19, hospitalizations, respiratory infections, and other prevailing public health issues as we enter into the spring season.

The SHIELD project is a quality improvement intervention for hospitals, nursing homes and long-term acute care hospitals to reduce the spread and infections of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO). This resource provides an overview of staff training, patient communication, compliance checks and more. Additional resources:

Preparing for and responding to nursing home residents or healthcare personnel (HCP) who develop signs or symptoms of a respiratory viral infection.

This toolkit is a resource to assist healthcare organizations in implementing an early severe sepsis identification and treatment program in the post-acute (facility-based) healthcare setting. It is designed to provide post-acute healthcare organizations with an evidence-based communication tool, staff education and care pathway to assist in improving care processes to identify patients more quickly with severe sepsis and to provide timely and effective treatment.