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.
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.
Diabetes Change Package
Qsource has created a diabetes change package specifically targeting several of our Partnerships for Community Health to help improve hemoglobin A1c rates in these communities. This toolkit includes printed resources, podcasts, and educational event recordings.
Social Drivers of Health: The Missing Link
This event sponsored by Qsource and with Madeline Wilson, Patient Safety and Quality Advisor for the Indiana Hospital Association, focuses on the use of Z codes and the impact on social drivers of health.
Heart Health for Older Adults Using a Lifestyle Medicine Approach
At Qsource's February 2024 LAN Event for Heart Health Month, Kelly Freeman, MSN, AGPCNP-BC, speaks on healthy lifestyle interventions for chronic disease management and prevention.
Emergency Preparedness Planning (EPP) Series
All organizations should have an emergency preparedness plan to address disruptions in services, protect the safety of employees, consumers, patients and the community, mitigate loss and promote resilience in the event of future emergencies.