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Category
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Engaging Patient and Family Advisory Councils in Hospital Quality Improvement Activities
  • 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 series will highlight the value PFACs bring, identify the key topic areas to engage PFACs in performance improvement, best practices for presenting, receiving, and acting upon their feedback.
Join the Discussion: The Importance of Patient and Family Advisory Councils
  • Performance Improvement
$0.00
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.
Getting Ready for Joint Commission and CMS Health Equity Requirements
  • Data + Measurement
$0.00
Recently, The Joint Commission (TJC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced their commitment to driving health equity. These new requirements include the expansion of the collection, reporting and analysis of standardized data. Hospitals and health systems should prepare now to meet these new requirements. This webinar will cover the upcoming deadlines and reporting requirements for both Joint Commission and CMS reporting.
Enhancing Capacity: Reengineering Fall and Fall Injury Programs: Infrastructure, Capacity and Sustainability
  • Performance Improvement
$0.00
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. Participants will learn how to improve program infrastructure, capacity and sustainability. They will also be challenged to reconsider aggregated fall rates as a measure of program effectiveness and inspired to clinically relevant measures of success.
Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists Antimicrobial Stewardship Certificate Training Program: Quality Improvement Projects Overview
  • Performance Improvement
$0.00
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.
Is Your Board Bored? Demonstrating the Impact of Quality
  • Performance Improvement
$0.00
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. 
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.
Collecting Social Drivers of Health Data From Patients: A Review of Three Methods
  • Substance and Opioid Use Disorder
$0.00
Social drivers of health, otherwise known as social determinants of health, are nonmedical factors that influence patient outcomes. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Joint Commission, National Committee for Quality Assurance, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health all support the collection and use of this information to improve health equity. Centering on the whole person and understanding multiple factors that contribute to their health promotes a patient-centered and culturally competent approach to healthcare.

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