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- Community Collaboration + Coordination
$0.00
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Section 501(r)(3)(A) requires a hospital organization to conduct a community health needs assessment (CHNA) every three years and to adopt an implementation strategy to meet the community health needs identified through the CHNA. The CHNA is a vital tool to aid in identifying priority health needs and aligning partners and resources to address community needs. A collaborative approach to planning an organization’s CHNA can increase the likelihood of successful targeted initiatives to improve health outcomes.
- Community Collaboration + Coordination
$0.00
Project Firstline, the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) national training collaborative for infection control, is a comprehensive infection control program designed to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases in United States healthcare settings. Project Firstline aims to provide foundational and practical knowledge directly to frontline healthcare personnel and the public health workforce engaged in the prevention of healthcare-associated infections.
- Community Collaboration + Coordination
$0.00
This course offers Compass HQIC participants the opportunity to tune in on open forums where the Compass HQIC team provides guidance, news, updates and answers participant questions.
- Community Collaboration + Coordination
$0.00
Project Firstline, the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) national training collaborative for infection control, is a comprehensive infection control program designed to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases in United States healthcare settings. Project Firstline aims to provide foundational and practical knowledge directly to frontline healthcare personnel and the public health workforce engaged in the prevention of healthcare-associated infections.
- Substance and Opioid Use Disorder
- Patient Harm
- Community Collaboration + Coordination
$0.00
Hutchinson Regional Medical Center is a 190-bed rural hospital in Hutchinson, Kansas with a population of 40,000 residents. The hospital, along with the Reno County Health Department, identified that there was an increase of overdoses and substance use disorder related to the opioid epidemic within the county.
- Patient Harm
- High Reliability
- Community Collaboration + Coordination
$0.00
As the most common preventable injury, Falls in the acute care setting are a significant concern for hospitals nationwide. These incidents can lead to injuries, longer hospital stays, and increased healthcare costs. In 2024, Cass Health implemented a patient fall debrief program. Whenever a patient falls, a debrief is held with key stakeholders to discuss what happened and look for process improvement opportunities.
- Performance Improvement
- Community Collaboration + Coordination
$0.00
Social drivers of health (SDOH) are underlying social and economic conditions that influence an individual's ability to be healthy. Examples include lack of stable housing, limited access to healthy food, loneliness, and feeling unsafe at home. Understanding an individual's SDOH allows for the development of a comprehensive treatment plan leading to improved health outcomes.
- Community Collaboration + Coordination
$0.00
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, requires all nonprofit hospitals to complete a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and an Implementation Plan. The purpose of the CHNA is to identify the health-related needs in the community and develop a plan of action to address these needs.
- Community Collaboration + Coordination
- High Reliability
- Performance Improvement
- 0.00 Attendance
$0.00
Requiring employees to be vaccinated improves employee health, it helps contain the virus and protect vulnerable populations beyond the workplace. It also makes business sense, too: Fewer employees out sick or dealing with lasting complications means a more productive workforce.