Collecting REAL Data and Data Collection Training for Health Equity
Collecting patient demographic and language data helps health care providers understand and tailor care to patient needs, improving outcomes. Meeting race, ethnicity, and language (REAL) data standards enhances care quality and identifies health care disparities.
Closing the Health Literacy Gap
This QSource Health Equity Learning and Action Network event explored the factors that contribute to health literacy disparities, highlights the importance of health literacy, and notes its contribution to promoting health equity.
Taking Healthcare by Storm Podcast: Episodes About Opioid Use Disorder
Dr. Jean Storm conducted interviews for three podcasts, featuring four individuals who are actively involved in opioid use disorder (OUD) recovery and who are in recovery themselves. These individuals shared their personal recovery journeys and discussed how their experiences are now helping others with OUD across Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The podcasts explore various long-term recovery options, addressing the stigma and challenges in accessing treatment.
HSAG Helps Arizona and California Nursing Homes Increase COVID-19 Vaccination Rates by Improving Vaccine Access and Addressing Cost Challenges
HSAG Helps Arizona and California Nursing Homes Increase COVID-19 Vaccination Rates by Improving Vaccine Access and Addressing Cost Challenges
The end of the public health emergency and the commercialization of COVID-19 vaccines has led to vaccine administration and billing challenges for nursing homes across the country.
Resident and Family Guide to Understanding Sepsis
The Health Quality Innovation Network’s Resident and Family Guide to Understanding Sepsis defines what sepsis is and who is at risk of getting sepsis. This guide also describes the signs and symptoms of sepsis and what family members can do if they suspect a loved one may have sepsis.
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.