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Credits
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Embedding Quality Improvement into Organizational Culture
  • Performance Improvement
$0.00
Join your peers at Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) in Iowa for a collaborative learning and action network (LAN) with the Rural Quality Improvement Technical Assistance (RQITA) team, led by Telligen. This LAN is aimed to bring your entire quality team up-to-date with relevant learning opportunities on quality improvement and the Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project (MBQIP) Program. Funding for this material was provided by the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) 93.241).
DETECT Falls: Tailoring Interventions for Patient Safety
  • Patient Harm
$0.00
Falls are a serious patient safety issue affecting Iowans everyday. In 2016 in Iowa alone, there were nearly 88,000 falls-related emergency department visits that resulted in 8,300 hospitalizations. Between 2007 and 2016, there was a 56 percent increase in the number of falls-related deaths. We know that most falls are preventable. To protect patient safety and patient lives, we must work together to prevent falls in all care settings. Participating in this pre-recorded webinar course holds many benefits.
Collaboration with Community Partners to Promote Harm Reduction and Decrease Stigma
  • 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.
What Success Looks Like: Patient Fall Prevention
  • 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.
What Success Looks Like: Reducing Readmissions Using a Team Approach
  • Readmissions + Care Transitions
  • Performance Improvement
$0.00
Greenwood County Hospital is a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital in Eureka, Kansas with a population of 2,332 residents. In 2021, readmission rates continued to be high despite previous improvement efforts, indicating a need to re-evaluate process and strategies. The Readmissions Team was restructured at that time, adding team members and returning to basic best practice interventions. Collaboration continues to expand with care team members outside of the hospital, including home health, primary care and chronic care management services.
What Success Looks Like: Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Performance Improvement
$0.00
Breaking the norm of treating every acute symptom with an antibiotic is HUGE. Join in this educational topic to find out what antibiotic resistance truly is and why it matters. The presenter will help you identify what resources are readily available at your fingertips to help educate providers and community members to defeat this cascading routine.
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.
How to Leverage Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Program (MBQIP) Data for Improvements: Health Equity and Social Drivers of Health (SDOH)
  • Performance Improvement
  • Data + Measurement
$0.00
This event will review the MBQIP Commitment to Health Equity and SDOH measures. The event will address how attendees can use available data on social drivers of health to tell the story of their community. Funding for this course was provided by the Health Resources Services Administration, Rural Hospital Flexibility Program (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) 93.241).
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.
Screening for Social Drivers of Health: Iowa Flex Best Practice Applications
  • 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.

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