Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
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.
EDTC Cohort Office Hour Series
  • Readmissions + Care Transitions
  • Person + Family Engagement
  • Performance Improvement
$0.00
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.
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.
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. 
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.
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.
New MBQIP Measures Overview
  • Performance Improvement
  • Data + Measurement
$0.00
The Health Resources and Services Administration has recently awarded the Rural Quality Improvement Technical Assistance Center (RQITA) to Telligen. RQITA’s goal is to improve quality and health outcomes in rural healthcare with a focus on the Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project (MBQIP). This webinar recording will provide an introduction to the RQITA team and offer a review of the new MBQIP measures. 
2024 Compass Office Hours
  • 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.  
Train the Trainer: Recognizing Risk Using Reservoirs
  • 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.

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