 | Nursing Home Quality Improvement Collaborative |
Superior Health Quality Alliance’s (Superior Health) Nursing Home Quality Improvement Collaborative expands on years of experience assisting nursing homes with improving the quality of care and the quality of life of people living in nursing homes. Superior Health provides each participating nursing home with the following:
- data-driven technical assistance
- education, tools and resources to build capability, efficiency and expertise
- assistance meeting and exceeding regulatory requirements
We recognize changes in payment models are driving changes in the way work is done—we’re here to help you navigate with success.
Participants of this collaborative receive information about improving your nursing home’s quality and implementing high-quality, seamless transitions of care. In addition, your organization is invited to join initiatives focused on chronic disease prevention and self-care, increase patient safety and improve behavioral health and opioid misuse.
Superior Health and Real Time Medical Systems Collaborative
Looking for opportunities in your nursing home to improve clinical outcomes, quality measures and infection prevention and control surveillance? Superior Health and Real Time are offering this great opportunity to 300 nursing homes at absolutely no cost through October 2024. For additional information and inquiries, please check out these resources:
- Learn about the collaborative. (PDF)
- Infection Control and Antibiotic Stewardship Surveillance (PDF)
- Unlock the Power of Your Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Turn Data into Actionable Insights (PDF)
Front Line Forces
Front Line Forces training modules and resources cover topics developed with the direct care staff in mind, created for those working in long-term care and other health care settings.
Current offerings include:
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- Pressure Injury and Prevention
- Caregiver Well-Being
- Hand Hygiene
- Substance Use Disorder
- Preventing Falls and Falls with Injury
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Vaccinations
- Sepsis
- and more!
Directed Plans of Correction Support
Resources
General
All Cause Harm Prevention in Nursing Homes
Change Package | National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative
Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)
Emergency Preparedness Planning
Use this curated list of resources to help you be prepared for emergencies.
Falls
Health Quality Innovation Network’s Nursing Home Falls Tracker Tool
Nursing Home Quality Measures
Five-Star Quality Measure Rating Excel Calculation Tool Instructions (PDF)
Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Quality Measure Rating Calculation Tool (Excel)
How to Access the Nursing Home Five-Star
Rating Preview Report (PDF)
Antipsychotic Medication Use
Antipsychotic Medication Safety Decision Tool (PDF)
Fishbone Tool with Antipsychotic Medication Examples (PDF)
Five Whys Tool with Antipsychotic Medication Examples (PDF)
How to Help Your Loved One: Improve Dementia Care by Reducing Unnecessary Antipsychotic Drugs (PDF)
Nursing Home Audit Tool for Psychotropic Medications (PDF)
Quality Improvement Plan for Antipsychotic Medications (PDF)
Rate of Schizophrenia Diagnosis for All Nursing Home Residents by Year (PDF)
Mental and Behavioral Health in Long Term Care
Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health in Nursing Facilites
Older Adult Mental Health Video Training Series
Technology Solutions and Platforms to Combat Social Isolation (PDF)
National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)
C. difficile Reporting Guide for Long Term Care Facilities (PDF)
FAQs for Reporting C. difficile (CDI) in National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) (PDF)
How to Share Your NHSN Data with Superior Health Quality Alliance (PDF) updated Oct. 27, 2022
Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI)
QAPI Meeting Agenda (Word Doc)
QAPI Written Plan How-to Guide (PDF) Appendix (Word Doc)
Root Cause Analysis Toolkit for Long-Term Care
Action Plan Template and Instructions (Word Doc)
Measure/Indicator Collection and Monitoring Plan (Word Doc)
QAPI Goal Setting (Word Doc)
QAPI Measure/Indicator Development Worksheet (Word Doc)
Action Plans:
Transitions of Care
Substance Use Disorder
Nursing Home Naloxone Policy and Procedure Toolkit
This toolkit provides easy-to-adapt policies and procedures for nursing homes to implement or improve their emergency response to opioid overdose, which includes naloxone administration.
PDF version | Editable Word version
Nursing Home Naloxone Policy and Procedure Toolkit Checklist
PDF version | Editable Word version
Frontline Forces – Five-part substance use disorder series covering the following topics:
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- What is Substance Use Disorder?
- Combatting Stigma
- Finding Help
- Prevention
- Stigma Case Study
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Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) – This document outlines recent changes to the bill making it easier for all providers to prescribe buprenorphine.
Superior Health Shine a Light on Stigma
The mission of the Superior Health Quality Alliance Shine a Light on Stigma campaign is to increase respect for and dignity of persons with substance use disorders. Individuals and organizations are encouraged to learn about and commit to eliminating the stigma surrounding substance use disorders by changing the language they use.
WI Clinical Resource Center (Sign-up for free to access materials, only available to Wisconsin LTC organizations)
Pain management in long-term care settings is vital to ensure residents’ quality of life and quality of care. This includes accurate and timely recognition of pain, comprehensive care-planning, implementation of non-pharmacological/pharmacological person-centered approaches, and evaluation/ongoing monitoring of the effectiveness of pain management.
The Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health in Nursing Facilites works to support Nursing homes in improving the quality of life for residents experiencing a substance use disorder.
Request Assistance – Submit a request for tailored assistance, training or resources on substance use.
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- Medications for Opioid Overdose, Withdrawal and Addiction
- Substance Use Disorders and Mental Health in Older Adults
- Naloxone in Nursing Homes: A Checklist for Process Review
- Language Matters Substance Use
- 4 Ways Nursing Homes Can Promote Substance Use Recovery
- Guide for Substance Use Screening in Nursing Facilities
- SAMHSA Resource Center
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The Focus of Our Work
Superior Health is powered by eight organizations with proven success driving achievement of Medicare quality improvement program goals. Superior Health will work to improve the quality of health and health care for health care consumers, patients, clinicians, health care organizations and communities by supporting these five areas:
- Improve nursing home quality focusing on reducing unnecessary resident harm, reducing hospitalizations and increasing a facility’s Five Star Quality Rating.
- Increase quality of care transitions through engagement of community coalitions to reduce unnecessary emergency department visits and increase medication safety.
- Increase chronic disease prevention and self-care for those living with cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease.
- Increase patient safety including reducing adverse drug events and healthcare-related infections.
- Improve behavioral health and opioid misuse through prevention and access to health services.
Show Your Progress with Data
KeyMetrics is the data collection and reporting tool for the QIN-QIO work. Please click the image below to access this tool.
