Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Strategies for Improving Emergency Department Throughput
  • Performance Improvement
$0.00
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. Although once only a problem in large, urban, teaching hospitals, the phenomenon has spread to other suburban and rural healthcare organizations. When EDs are overwhelmed, their ability to respond to community emergencies and disasters may be compromised.
The Ins + Outs of Emergency Department Transfer Communication (EDTC)
  • Performance Improvement
  • Emergency Preparedness + Response
$0.00
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. The measure is applicable to patients with a wide range of medical conditions (e.g., acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, pneumonia, respiratory compromise, and trauma) and is relevant for internal quality improvement purposes and external reporting to consumers and purchasers.  
Growing the Community Health Worker Dynamic in Iowa: Opportunities to Train and Support CHWs
  • Performance Improvement
  • Emergency Preparedness + Response
$0.00
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. Because they are trusted members of the communities served they play a vital role in addressing social determinants of health and the root causes of poor health.
What Success Looks Like: Engaging Patient and Family Advisory Councils
  • Person + Family Engagement
  • Performance Improvement
$0.00
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. This learning and action network will highlight the journey of one hospital with a robust and highly engaged PFAC.
Engaging Your Team in Plan Do Study Act Cycles
  • Person + Family Engagement
  • Performance Improvement
$0.00
This course will be sure to energize your team in completing process improvement projects. Process Improvement starts with the PDSA cycle. This course will provide your team with a brief overview of PDSA cycle development. Then show you strategies on how to engage your team through working with case studies. We plan to share with you engaging strategies to get your team excited about completing PDSA cycles and doing process improvement projects.
Collecting REAL Data: Training Tools + Resources for Hospitals
  • Performance Improvement
  • Data + Measurement
$0.00
Discussing race and ethnicity can be challenging, especially when we may not have a clear understanding of these complex concepts. Learning more about these terms helps organizations and their staff with REAL data collection - race, ethnicity, and language. Collecting this data is required and having a better grasp of the concepts of race and ethnicity and how they affect patient experience is essential. Recognizing common challenges and utilizing best practices set the foundation for success. Employing training tools and resources supports continuous learning and improvement.
Review of CHNA and Implementation Plan Resource Guide for CAHs
  • Performance Improvement
  • Data + Measurement
$0.00
The Affordable Care Act requires all nonprofit hospitals to develop a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) to identify high priority community health needs and an Implementation Plan to address these needs. Although considerable progress has been made in meeting most or all of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requirements for the CHNA and Implementation Plans, some Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) have experienced difficulties in meeting all the requirements.
National CAH Quality Inventory and Assessment for Iowa Flex Hospitals
  • Performance Improvement
  • Data + Measurement
$0.00
The Iowa Flex Program is excited to be rolling out the National CAH Quality Inventory Assessment along with the other 44 participating Flex states.  The Assessment will allow everyone to learn more about CAH service lines offered, quality improvement (QI) infrastructure and activities, and related quality measures. The Assessment, which is the first of its kind at a national level, will be an opportunity to gather a wealth of information that will help national partners, our state’s Flex Program in an effort to improve how we support safe and high-quality care in CAHs. 
Conducting Root Cause Analysis
  • Performance Improvement
  • Data + Measurement
$0.00
This webinar will review the fundamental principles and techniques of a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) process in support of a culture of safety in hospitals.  We will review the types of hospital related events that threaten patient safety and how to identify and address them for improvement.  The elements of an effective root cause analysis will be discussed as a systems approach to analyzing safety issues and developing targeted actions from their identified root causes.
Back to Basics: Team Building for Hospital Quality Leaders
  • Performance Improvement
$0.00
Join the Kansas Compass HQIC team as they introduce strategies to build stronger healthcare quality teams. Teamwork quality impacts patients, staff, and organizational outcomes. During this session you will learn basic strategies for building an effective team. Such strategies include team structure, communication, leadership and support. 

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