Long term care experts will describe how antibiotics work and their risks and benefits. Then they will define antibiotic resistance and identify strategies to decrease the development and spread of antibiotic resistance. This is the first of four sessions in Learning Session 4 for nursing home staff. To prepare for session 1, watch the 15-minute video: Exploring Antibiotics and review the resource: What You Need to Know About Antibiotics in a Nursing Home.
Heart failure is one of the top diagnoses involved with readmissions throughout the Great Plains and Lake Superior Quality Innovation Networks. Providing targeted assistance to Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) patients in the home setting after discharge can lead to better patient outcomes and reductions in readmissions. This webinar is the fourth in a series of webinars to assist communities in this seven-state region improve heart failure care.
This is the third in a four part webinar series that will provide the structure for a re-designed medication reconciliation process and training to successfully implement an improved process using the Medication at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) tool for Medication reconciliation.
This is the fourth in a series of webinar events focusing on the MACRA Quality Payment Program (QPP) Calculating a MIPS Score. QPP is a multifaceted program composed of four performance categories – Quality; Improvement Activities; Advancing Care Information; and Cost – and Scoring for each category. This webinar will focus on calculating a score for MIPS and will introduce a MIPS Estimator tool clinicians can use to determine what their score is and how simple changes may affect the score.
This is the fourth in a four part webinar series that will address assessing and evaluating the medication reconciliation process to ensure successful implementation and identify high risk situations in which there may be barriers to addressing medication reconciliation using the Medication at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) tool for Medication reconciliation.
This is the second in a four part webinar series that will provide the foundation for a medication reconciliation project team and explain how to design or re-design the medication reconciliation process using the Medication at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) tool for Medication reconciliation.
This is the first webinar in a four part series that will provide evidence-based structure and interventions to improve medication safety. Subsequent webinars will utilize/reference the Medication at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) tool for Medication reconciliation.
This learning session will focus on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hospital incentive programs.
Join Lake Superior QIN and the American Medical Association's (AMA) Linda Murakami, RN, BSN, MSHA for a discussion of the AMA's three-phase evidence-based framework for improving hypertension control rates in your patient population. The Measure, Act, Partner (M.A.P.) framework helps organizations deploy effective strategies for blood pressure measurement, protocol use and patient engagement that lead to improved control rates for patients with hypertension.
Preventing Clostridium difficile infections (CDIs) takes a community.