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Get Rid of Old or Unneeded Medication
Saturday, April 30th is the second annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Click here to read Dennee Frey's new blog post about the potential danger to patients from keeping unwanted or expired prescription drugs around the house. Also find out how to locate National Take Back Initiative collection sites near your patients, or near you!
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We want to know what you think about the HHQI National Campaign. Visit our feedback page to let us know your favorite part of the campaign or what we could improve upon. |
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Upcoming Presentations
If you are going to be at one of the following conferences, please introduce yourself to us. We'd love to meet you. Here is our upcoming HHQI presentation schedule for May 2011:
May 3
National Rural Health Association 2011 Annual Conference. Austin, Texas. Presenter: HHQI National Campaign Epidemiologist Karen Hannah
May 11
Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care Quality Conference. Little Rock, Arkansas. Presenter: HHQI National Campaign RN Project Coordinator Cindy Sun
May 17
Indiana Home and Hospice Care Foundation Annual Conference. Indianapolis, Indiana. Presenter: HHQI National Campaign Lead RN Project Coordinator Eve Esslinger
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently released a 3-part series instructional session on OASIS-C Training: Accurately Responding to Process Items. The links to the 3 sessions are below.
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If you have questions about educational materials, data reports, or any other issue, please contact us at HHQInfo.
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Cross Settings III BPIP
The Cross Settings III Best Practice Intervention Package (BPIP) is now available for download. The Cross Settings III BPIP completes the cross settings series and focuses on innovative ideas to help prepare for health care changes. The package discusses each of the innovative topics below:
- Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMH)
- Accountable Care Organizations
- Functioning as a provider community
- Reducing readmissions while improving quality
- Medical reconciliation and medication
- Communication of fall risk with the multi-provider community
In addition to many interdisciplinary tools and resources, three excellent success stories from providers are included. Read about how Walgreens Infusion & Respiratory Services in Bellingham, WA, P.A.C.E. Health Care in Weslaco, TX and The Palace at Home in Miami, FL brought about change in their practices.
To download the BPIP:
1. Log-in with your username and password here.
2. Click on MyLinks in the gold toolbar
3. Click on Cross Settings III |
If you weren't among the 5,500+ live attendees for the HHQI National Campaign's latest Webinar, Integrating Home Care into Primary Practice to Improve Patient Outcomes, please make sure to view an archive of the April 13 session here. The exciting 75-minute session examines physician-nurse communication and other care coordination topics to improve quality of care.
Keynote presenters for the session are Dr. Alan Goldblatt and Registered Nurse Linda Murphy, both of Gainesville, Florida. As the Medical Director of Caretenders Home Health Care, Dr. Goldblatt has worked with the inspired leadership of Ms. Murphy, watching her develop a formidable structure for the provision of ethical home care in Gainesville and surrounding communities. The session includes a lively Q&A session with many questions and comments relevant to home health care practitioners, physicians, quality improvement specialists and others.
Click here to view a recording of the Webinar and access handouts from the session. |
HHQI Agencies of the Month
March Agency of the Month
Home Nursing Agency & Visiting Nurse Association - Altoona, PA
"Targeting medication management and compliance as a direct link to improving both acute care hospitalization and medication management scores has been an ongoing performance improvement indicator for the Agency." Click here to read more.
April Agency of the Month
McLean Home Care & Hospice - Simsbury, CT
"In the past year, our team launched "Living with Heart Failure" and "Breathe Easy" programs that also incorporate HHQI evidence-based tools." Click here to read more.
Click here to enter to become an HHQI Agency of the Month.
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Community-based Care Transitions Program
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is accepting applications for participation in the Community-based Care Transitions Program (CCTP). The CCTP, mandated by section 3026 of the Affordable Care Act, provides funding to test models for improving care transitions for high risk Medicare beneficiaries. The goals of the CCTP are to improve transitions of beneficiaries from the inpatient hospital setting to other care settings, to improve quality of care, to reduce readmissions for high risk beneficiaries, and to document measureable savings to the Medicare program. The CCTP is part of Partnership for Patients, a national patient safety initiative through which the Administration is supporting broad-based efforts to reduce harm caused to patients in hospitals and improve care transitions. (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Solicitation)
Information about CCTP including solicitation information and an application can be found here. |
MedQIC Home Health Resources
The Medicare Quality Improvement Community (MedQIC) Web site (www.medqic.org) that has provided quality improvement tools for healthcare professionals and Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) staff is being discontinued near the end of May 2011.
The HHQI National Campaign has archived MedQIC's home health resources on the campaign Web site. To access those resources:
1. Log-in with your username and password here
2. Click on MyLinks in the gold toolbar
3. Click on MedQIC Resources |
The Obama Administration has launched the Partnership for Patients: Better Care, Lower Costs, a new public-private partnership that will help improve the quality, safety, and affordability of health care for all Americans. The Partnership for Patients brings together leaders of major hospitals, employers, physicians, nurses, and patient advocates along with state and federal governments in a shared effort to make hospital care safer, more reliable, and less costly.
The two goals of the new Partnership for Patients campaign are to:
- Keep hospital patients from getting injured or sicker. By the end of 2013, to decrease instances of patients acquiring preventable conditions while in hospitals by 40 percents compared to 2010.
- Help patients heal without complication. By the end of 2013, to decrease preventable complications during a transition from one care setting to another, so that the number of patients who must be readmitted to the hospital would be reduced by 20 percent compared to 2010.
To join Partnership for Patients, click here. |
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