 | Partnerships for Community Health |
The Superior Health Quality Alliance (Superior Health) Partnerships for Community Health initiative supports entities that contribute in various ways to improving the health of their community members. Together, with the common goal of improving health and health care available for all in your community, you will collaborate, share best practices and network with peers in your community.
Community organizations in Superior Health are provided:
- Opportunities to work with real-time data
- Assistance with the evaluation of data
- Opportunities to be a part of large-scale systems of change
- Opportunities to use data to help your group focus on shared areas of improvement and provide relevant national best practices, educational
resources and tools - Access to subject matter experts on quality improvement processes and regulatory reporting requirements
- Learning opportunities offered in a variety of ways that fit skill sets and are easily accessible
Resources
NEW! Shine a Light on Stigma
People with substance use disorder (SUD) have a medical condition and need medical care. Yet the language often used to describe people with SUD tends to blame or demean them, creating a stigma that interferes with their opportunity to seek treatment. The Superior Health Shine a Light on Stigma campaign aims to increase respect for and dignity of persons with substance use disorder by asking individuals and organizations to learn about and commit to eliminating the stigma surrounding SUD by changing the language they use.
Care Transitions Resources
Care Transition Model Resource Guide
This compendium identifies external care transitions resources by care setting(s), key points and estimated time commitment for implementation if applicable. Use the guide’s care setting comparison table to jump to a resource, or scroll through resource descriptions identified by care settings in which the resource was implemented and/or researched.
Using Leadership, Organizing, and Action to Build a Coalition – Participant Guide
This training will help you mobilize new stakeholders, deepen relationships with existing stakeholders and accelerate progress with your current initiatives.
Emergency Preparedness
- All-Hazards Approach to Public Health Emergency Preparedness Planning (PDF)
- Be Prepared: Planning for Public Health Emergencies (PDF)
Foundation for Action – Guidance for Thriving in Health Care Today
Foundation Components to Support a Safety Culture Assessment
The assessment provides a quick evaluation of your organization’s alignment with supporting a safety culture.
Creating Sustainable Change Assessment
This assessment identifies opportunities to improve implementing best practices and sustaining change within your organization.
Management of Heart Failure for Post-acute Settings Toolkit
This toolkit is a resource to assist health care organizations with implementing an early recognition and management of Heart Failure program in the post-acute health care setting.
Home Health Care Referral Checklist
Make sure patients move to home health care the right way! Use this helpful tool for Start of Care.
Promotional Media Toolkit – Easily Promote Your Facility!
This package was developed to help you promote your decision to participate with Superior Health Quality Alliance. You may use the tools to announce your participation to the public, your staff, clients/patients/residents, stakeholders and more.
Sharing your participation internally can help build excitement, participation and buy-in. Sharing your participation externally lets the public know your organization cares about them and is willing to dedicate resources to be at the forefront of improving care and their health care experience.
All the materials have been created to allow for fast and easy localization for self-promotion. You may choose to use any of the materials that fit your needs. Simply localize the materials with the appropriate information about your organization in the marked spaces.
The Promotional Media Toolkit is password-protected – you can find the password in the October 2020 issue of our Collaborator e-newsletter.
Resources on our Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) page are available for Community Coalitions for Improving Care (including many types of organizations include hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, independent providers, home health agencies, etc.), Nursing Home Quality Improvement Collaborative and Hospitals.
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.
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.
