Reimbursement & Resources for Screening & Supporting Patients with Substance Use Disorder
This succinct Reimbursement & Resources for Screening & Supporting Patients with Substance Use Disorder resource was developed by IPRO QIN-QIO for healthcare providers and people with Medicaid and Medicare.
Nursing Home Naloxone Policy and Procedure Toolkit
This IPRO QIN-QIO Nursing Home Naloxone Policy and Procedure Toolkit was developed by a workgroup of nursing home physicians, nurses, and pharmacists, nursing home provider organizations, harm reduction experts, and quality improvement specialists for nursing home providers and is intended to provide easy to adapt policies and procedures for nursing homes that need to implement or improve their emergency response to opioid overdose, which includes naloxone administration.
7 Things You Need to Know About Long-COVID
This beneficiary-facing fact sheet was developed by Quality Insights as a lower-literacy resource to help educate the public on the importance of vaccination and to highlight seven key takeaways to know about Long-COVID (or Post-COVID Syndrome).
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.
Wake Up Wednesday: High-Risk Medication ECHO® Series
This webinar recording, provided by Telligen, is from the first session of Telligen's Wake Up Wednesday: High-Risk Medication ECHO® Series. This session features Vicki Worth, Medicare/Medicaid LTC Bureau Chief I with the Iowa Department of Inspections & Appeals and focuses on the regulations, risks leading to errors and safety concerns of these medications. Viewers will also learn about:
Don’t be AmBivalent about the Bivalent Boosters: Understanding the Emerging Science Behind the Updated Boosters
This webinar recording, provided by Telligen, features information on the COVID-19 bivalent booster vaccine. Dr. Anuj Mehta, M.D., M.S., Assistant Professor of Medicine at Denver Health and Hospital Authority shares facts and information on why it’s important to get vaccinated. Viewers will also learn:
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:
Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Prevention in Action: Strategies from the Field
This webinar recording, provided by Telligen, is intended for nursing home staff and provides real world examples of effective Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) prevention strategies shared by Alaska Native Medical Center and Campbell County Health infection prevention leaders. Speakers share their experiences developing staff education, optimizing surveillance, engaging physician champions and much more. In this recording, viewers will also learn how to: