Action Period 2
Focus: Infection Prevention and Antibiotic Stewardship
Collaborative Participants,

During Action Period 2, we want to engage you to keep you focused on your quality improvement efforts. We will target three key topics over the next several months, giving you the resources and support you need to reach your quality improvement goals.

First, we focused on the QAPI Written Plan. You can listen to the podcasts from the QAPI interviews on the LSSCC webpage.

For the next few months, we're focusing on Infection Prevention and Antibiotic Stewardship in long-term care facilities. 

This email provides links to helpful tools for you as you develop your infection prevention strategies. We also have scheduled a Sharing Call where nursing home providers can discuss and share their experiences around this topic. We hope you'll join us! 

Sincerely,
Your atom Alliance Team
Sharing Call -  Infection Prevention and Antibiotic Stewardship
January 10, 2018

Join your peers to exchange ideas and share best practices for infection
prevention and antibiotic stewardship.  During this call, you will get an inside look into what state survey agency representatives are looking for in your infection prevention programs. Then we'll open the lines for conversation.

Call participants will be the first to hear the insight from the SSA interviews. 

Helpful Resources
Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkit for Nursing Homes
Antibiotic Stewardship Assessment
CDC's Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship for Nursing Homes
Get a multitude of antibiotic stewardship resources in one document. 

This document will help you assess current CDI prevention activities in regards to antibiotic stewardship. 
This website offers practical ways to initiate or expand antibiotic stewardship activities in nursing homes. 
 

Find all the Collaborative II resources and materials on our webpage
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This material was prepared by atom Alliance, the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), coordinated by Qsource for Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Mississippi and Alabama under a contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a federal agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Content does not necessarily reflect CMS policy. 17.ASC2.08.029