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- Performance Improvement
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The Society of Infectious Disease Pharmacists (SIDP) offers a year-long antimicrobial stewardship certificate training program whose mission is to ADVANCE infectious diseases pharmacy through collaboration, research, and education LEAD antimicrobial stewardship to OPTIMIZE the care of patients with infections in every practice setting.
- Performance Improvement
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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. Also address simple techniques for on-going communication to your senior team and demonstrating the impact of quality. By the conclusion you will have practical concepts for leadership, steps for improvement related to your organizational goals, and tools and strategies for implementation.
- Performance Improvement
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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.
- Performance Improvement
- Emergency Preparedness + Response
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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.
- Performance Improvement
- Emergency Preparedness + Response
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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.
- Person + Family Engagement
- Performance Improvement
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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.
- Readmissions + Care Transitions
- Person + Family Engagement
- Performance Improvement
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Critical access hospitals (CAHs) play a crucial role in stabilizing and transferring patients in emergency situations. Improving emergency transitions of care is a key component of increasing the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of health care services. The Emergency Department Transfer Communication (EDTC) measure allows CAHs to evaluate and improve upon the effectiveness of this vitally important role.
- Person + Family Engagement
- Performance Improvement
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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.
- Performance Improvement
- Data + Measurement
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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.
- Performance Improvement
- Data + Measurement
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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.