Superior Health, as the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations (QIN-QIO) for Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, provides technical assistance to hospitals and nursing homes to improve patient safety by enhancing clinical processes like surgical care, infection control, and medication safety.
On this page, you’ll find:
- Action Plans and Resources: Detailed documents and plans for managing infections and preventing adverse drug events (ADEs).
- Infection Control Practices: Guidance on critical practices, including hand hygiene, enhanced barrier precautions and personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Specialized Topics: Information on antibiotic stewardship, managing multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) and reducing the use of antipsychotic medications.
- Preventive Measures: Resources on vaccination strategies and water management to prevent the spread of infections.
Important Resources to Improve Patient Safety
Use our Resource Library to access additional resources, sort by care setting, topic, file type and keyword.
Action Plans
Access action plans for tackling Costridioides difficile infection (CDI), COVID-19, pneumonia, sepsis, urinary tract infections (UTI) and more, along with staff training in infection prevention.
Action plan for reducing rehospitalizations for residents with a diagnosis of clostridioides difficile infection.
Action plan for reducing rehospitalizations for residents with a diagnosis of COVID-19.
Action plan for reducing rehospitalizations for residents with a diagnosis of pneumonia.
Action plan for reducing rehospitalizations for residents with a diagnosis of sepsis.
Action plan for reducing rehospitalizations for residents with a diagnosis of urinary tract infection
Use this worksheet to identify and implement actions to reduce bowel and bladder incontinence for long stay residents
Use this worksheet to identify and implement actions to ensure all staff receive annual infection prevention and control training.
Adverse Drug Events
The Front Line Forces module The Relationship Between Minimum Data Set (MDS) Coding, Diagnosis Reconciliation and Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) is relevant for nurses and minimum data set (MDS) staff responsible for ensuring that the diagnosis for residents returning to a nursing home after a hospital or emergency department (ED) visit are accurate and reflect the residents’ current condition.
Access additional adverse drug event resources by visiting our searchable Resource Library.
Antipsychotic Medication Use
Access additional antipsychotic medication resources by visiting our searchable Resource Library.
Use this decision tool to ensure antipsychotic medications are being used appropriately in your home.
This bundle of actions contains the practices used by nursing homes participating in the National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative to successfully reduce inappropriate antipsychotic drug use.
This fillable fishbone diagram contains root cause analysis examples to help plan for the goal of appropriate use of antipsychotic medications.
This fillable form contains 5 Whys question examples to help reveal the root cause of inappropriate antipsychotic medication use.
This guide provides information for family members to explore alternatives to antipsychotic medications for their loved ones with dementia.
This decision tool can be used to ensure antipsychotic medications are being used appropriately in your nursing home.
This quality improvement (QI) plan provides a sample report to help you improve your facility’s medication review process.
Hand Hygiene
This audit tool is intended to assess and evaluate hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers and vendors
This audit tool is intended to assess and evaluate hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers.
This audit tool is intended to assess and evaluate hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers.
Multidrug-resistant Organisms (MDROs)
Action plan for reducing rehospitalizations for residents with a diagnosis of clostridioides difficile infection.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Strategies for prevention and response to novel and targeted multidrug-resistant organisms.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Find tools and guides for proper PPE use, including mask assessment, glove removal and donning/doffing competency in health care settings.
Find tools and guides for proper PPE use, including mask assessment, glove removal and donning/doffing competency in health care settings.
Practical tips to assist staff when experiencing mask fatigue.
Sepsis
Explore resources for sepsis prevention, including action plans, screening tools, training videos and toolkits.
A resource for screening sepsis.
Recognition and Management of Sepsis in the Long-term Care Setting: An Interactive Work Group
Recognition and Management of Sepsis in the Long-term Care Setting: An Interactive Work Group
Recognition and Management of Sepsis in the Long-term Care Setting: An Interactive Work Group
Recognition and Management of Sepsis in the Long-term Care Setting: An Interactive Work Group
A sepsis toolkit for post-acute health care settings.
Transmission-Based Precautions
Toolkit designed to walk long-term care facilities through EBP implementation.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, This poster shows the requirements for EBP in long-term care.
Urinary Tract Infections (UTI)
Access more UTI prevention tools by visiting our resource library and typing “UTI” or “Urinary Tract Infection.”