brought to you by the Home Health Quality Improvement National Campaign (HHQI)
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HHQI's
online resource library
has
literally hundreds
of free resources that home health agencies can use for staff and patient education. The volume of resources can be overwhelming, and we want to make it easy for you to find our most popular tools. So each month, we'll highlight favorite resources from HHQI team members or campaign participants.
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Top Resources for March Health Observances
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Warmer weather is just around the corner! As many of us anticipate the official beginning of Spring later this month, there's also a diverse list of health-related observances to celebrate along the way. HHQI has free resources to help you promote many of these annual events among your patients and staff. Scroll below the list of observances for a list of relevant featured resources.
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Best Practice Intervention Packages (BPIPs)
Educational Videos
Patient Tools
Free Continuing Education Courses for Social Workers
Free Patient Safety Courses with Continuing Education for Nurses
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What's your favorite HHQI resource?
We love to hear how our resources have helped agencies, and you could help someone else in the HHQI community. We can give you credit or keep your recommendation anonymous. Please
email us
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Advancing QI Strategies from the Frontline
Quarterly CardioLAN Webinar
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March 21, 2019
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2-3 p.m. ET
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There’s no one more qualified to speak on the subject of quality improvement in the home health setting than those on the frontline. During this Progressive Cardiovascular Learning & Action Network (CardioLAN) webinar from the Home Health Quality Improvement National Campaign (HHQI), we will hear a first-hand account of how one HHQI-participating agency tackled cardiovascular disease head-on and is impacting a community of patients.
Please join HHQI in welcoming HopeHealth Visiting Nurse's Angela Audette, Chronic Care Nurse & Cardiac Disease Educator, as she shares quality improvement strategies, successes, and tips for overcoming some common barriers.
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Angela Audette, RN, BSN
Chronic Care Nurse Navigator
Cardiac Disease Educator
HopeHealth Visiting Nurse
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Congratulations to the HHQI Agency of the Month!
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Home health agencies that are active in the HHQI National Campaign and closest to the national, risk-adjusted ACH 20th percentile and/or the national, risk-adjusted Oral Medication Improvement 80th percentile (or better) are eligible for random selection as HHQI Agency of the Month.
Be in the spotlight.
Nominate your agency today!
If you are selected, your organization will be prominently featured here in HHQI Inside Edition and on the HHQI website. Your achievement will also be shared via HHQI's social media channels.
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National Disparities LAN Event | March 13, 2019 | 3-4:30 p.m. ET
Investing in Health Equity: Funding, Cost Savings, and ROI
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As requested by participants during the December 2018 National Disparities LAN Event, speakers will discuss ways to fund health equity efforts (such as Community Health Worker and population health programs), how health equity can produce cost savings, and how to calculate return on investment for your health equity programs.
Free continuing education credit available.
Learn more.
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Beginning March 2019
Updates to the Quality Improvement and Evaluation System
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Starting in March, the Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (QIES), Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports (CASPER) and Automated Survey Processing Environment (ASPEN) will undergo a series of modernizing enhancements. Once updated, the system will be called the Internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES). The iQIES system will not change how providers currently submit data to CMS.
The new enhancements in iQIES are based on user research and testing and feature a human-centered design and agile development practices. CMS is phasing in the iQIES system beginning with Long Term Care Hospitals (LTCH). Several updates to the QIES- Assessment Submission and Processing (ASAP) system are also planned. The Cloud-based solutions will also make it easier for users to receive support and use the system.
iQIES Details:
- Users will no longer need a virtual private network (VPN) or CMSNet to access the system. iQIES is Internet-facing and maintains the latest system architecture and security standards.
- System enhancements support flexible and user-friendly data reports for providers, allowing them to use real-time data for care planning as well as quality monitoring and improvement.
- Users can access important information for work anywhere, at any time, on mobile devices, laptops, and tablets.
CMS will be sharing more information about iQIES such as onboarding, stakeholder engagement opportunities, training, and general updates soon!
If you have questions, please contact the service desk at:
help@qtso.com
or by phone: 800-339-9313.
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New Presentation Toolkit Helps Raise Sepsis Awareness
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Educating older adults and their caregivers about sepsis is very important because sepsis is diagnosed more than 1.7 million times each year and takes more than 270,000 lives. Further, more than 80% of sepsis patients are over 50 years old, and adults aged 65 years and older are 13 times more likely to be hospitalized with sepsis than younger adults.
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Apply Now through April 1
2019 Million Hearts
®
Hypertension Control Challenge
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Many practices and systems work with their patients to achieve blood pressure control. The 2019 Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Challenge will identify practices, clinicians, and health systems that have exceptional rates of hypertension control.
Health professionals, practices, and health systems that have achieved hypertension control rates of at least 80% are eligible to enter the 2019 Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Challenge.
The submission deadline is April 1, 2019.
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CMS Proposes Rules to Improve Data Sharing
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has
released proposed rules
that require many providers and insurers to adopt a secure, standard format for electronic patient data by 2020. The goal of the technology is to allow information to easily move from plan to plan. The changes would also strengthen patients’ access to their health information and reduce certain burdens such as tedious data entry for providers.
Read more.
CMS is
asking providers to send them feedback
on how to best promote interoperability and reduce burden when it comes to health IT,
accepting comment until early April.
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National Minority Health Month 2019 Theme Announced
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National Minority Health Month begins on April 1, 2019, and the HHS Office of Minority Health will join its partners in raising awareness about the important role an active lifestyle plays in keeping us healthy. The theme, Active & Healthy, highlights the health benefits from even small amounts of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity throughout the day. Every move counts! And physical activity promotes health and reduces the risk of chronic diseases and other conditions that are more common or severe among racial and ethnic minority groups.
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Save the Date: April 16, 2019
First Annual National Care Transitions Awareness Day
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be holding its
1st annual National Care Transitions Awareness (NCTA) Day on April 16, 2019!
The goal is to increase awareness of the importance and value safe and effective care transitions and care coordination have on the beneficiary and provider communities. Please mark your calendars!
To raise awareness and promote action on a national level during NCTA week, CMS needs your help by committing to one or more care transition activities. Some examples include:
- Providing an educational webinar, highlighting best practices, to your organization, community partners, or other stakeholders
- Doing a gap analysis of your current practices and committing to advance your practices to the next level
- Providing a refresh on existing practices to your team and employees
- Reaching out to existing community partners to further your partnership and improve care coordination
- Identifying new community partners to expand resource options for patients
- Engaging health IT partners to improve data transfer and communication to improve care transitions
- Patient engagement activities to improve care transitions
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Save the Date:
When:
April 16, 2019
Where:
CMS Baltimore HQ
Time:
8:30am-4:30pm
Registration link to come.
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Register Now for Free Upcoming Industry Events
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Host: Medicare Learning Network
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Host: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
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Host: National Resource Center on Nutrition & Aging
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Host: National Resource Center on Nutrition & Aging
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Host: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Host: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Host: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Host: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Host: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Host: Health Resources & Services Administration Health Workforce
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* Continuing education credit(s) included, available or pending.
Reference to any specific organization or its products or services is for information and convenience and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by Quality Insights, the Home Health Quality Improvement National Campaign, or the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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This material was prepared by Quality Insights, the Medicare Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization supporting the Home Health Quality Improvement National Campaign, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The views presented do not necessarily reflect CMS policy.
Pub. No. 11SOW-WV-HH-MMD-030619
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