Sepsis Care in 2022: Identification + Management Strategies to Optimize Patient Outcomes
One person dies every 2 minutes in the U.S. daily from sepsis. Many organizations have initiated programs around the caring for the septic patient that falls short of desired outcomes. As of October 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has made sepsis a core measure.
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  • Performance Improvement
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  • Webinar recorded
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Operationalizing Health Equity Practices: A Three - Part Course for Hospital Quality and Operational Leaders
Achieving health equity by reducing and eliminating health disparities is an important overarching goal for federal and private payers alike; therefore, hospitals and healthcare organizations must implement practices that support this goal.
Category
  • Performance Improvement
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  • Webinar recorded
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Sustainable Sepsis Systems
Sepsis is a broadly defined syndrome with a high mortality rate.  Early recognition and initiation of treatment can improve patient outcomes. Consequently, quality metrics such as CMS Sep-1 evaluate hospital outcomes on a number of sepsis related process measures.
Category
  • Performance Improvement
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  • Webinar recorded
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Engaging Patient and Family Advisory Councils in Hospital Quality Improvement Activities
Active and productive patient and family advisory councils (PFACs) offer a forum for hospitals to obtain ideas, input, and insights to guide quality improvement efforts. PFAC members bring their experience in partnering with healthcare professionals and sharing their unique perspectives.
Category
  • Performance Improvement
Format
  • Webinar recorded
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Join the Discussion: The Importance of Patient and Family Advisory Councils
Active and productive PFACs offer a forum for hospitals to obtain ideas, input and insights to guide quality improvement efforts. PFAC members bring their experience in partnering with healthcare professionals and sharing their unique perspectives.
Category
  • Performance Improvement
Format
  • Webinar recorded
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Enhancing Capacity: Reengineering Fall and Fall Injury Programs: Infrastructure, Capacity and Sustainability
This webinar is designed to increase national and international awareness and importance of fall prevention, and, specifically to provide guidance and resources to clinical, administrative, quality and safety improvement professionals to add precision to the design, redesign and strategic plan.
Category
  • Performance Improvement
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  • Webinar recorded
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Is Your Board Bored? Demonstrating the Impact of Quality
Is your Board of Directors engaged with your quality work? Do they give the quality initiatives feedback and align them with strategic direction? During this two-part presentation, you will learn the methods for engaging your Board of Directors during your quality reporting and discussions.
Category
  • Performance Improvement
Format
  • Webinar recorded
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Strategies for Improving Emergency Department Throughput
Reducing patient wait times and how long they are in the emergency department (ED) can improve access to treatment, increase quality of care and the capability to provide additional treatment. In recent times, EDs have experienced significant overcrowding.
Category
  • Performance Improvement
Format
  • Webinar recorded
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The Ins + Outs of Emergency Department Transfer Communication (EDTC)
The Emergency Department Transfer Communication (EDTC) measure aims to provide a means of assessing how well key patient information is communicated from an emergency department (ED) to any health care facility.
Category
  • Performance Improvement
  • Emergency Preparedness + Response
Format
  • Webinar recorded
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Growing the Community Health Worker Dynamic in Iowa: Opportunities to Train and Support CHWs
Community Health Workers (CHWs) are frontline public health workers and trusted community resources. There is growing evidence indicating that CHWs advance health equity, improve health outcomes, and reduce health care costs.
Category
  • Performance Improvement
  • Emergency Preparedness + Response
Format
  • Webinar recorded
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