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We're Hiring!
Quality Improvement Manager
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(Registered Nurse & ESRD Experience is Required)
The Quality Improvement Manager directs, coordinates, develops, implements, and evaluates Network quality improvement activity (QIA) projects for dialysis facilities in the Network 12 region.
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February NPR Connection Call
Dates:
Feb. 13 or Feb. 14
Time:
1:00 CT
Topic:
My Plan: My Wishes
We encourage all NPRs to join the call to connect with the Network and other patients to learn and share about ways to improve the patient experience of care.
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For audio, you will need to also call-in using the following information:
*New call in information for 2020*
Phone:
1-866-899-4679
Access Code:
554-197-389#
Webinar ID:
554197389
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Third Annual Transplant Symposium in Omaha, Neb.
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This symposium aspires to bring together staff from dialysis facilities, transplant centers, organ procurement organizations (OPOs), and nephrology practices to discuss barriers to patients progressing through transplant evaluation to the waiting list.
Final agenda to be announced.
Date:
Thursday, May 7, 2020
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The End Stage Renal Disease National Coordinating Center Quality Improvement Activity Learning and Action Networks (ESRD NCC QIA LANs) hosts a series of calls based on topics of the CMS Quality Improvement Activities (QIAs).
ALL ESRD
facilities are invited to these meetings because improving the lives of dialysis patients in these areas is a global goal. Please also share these calls with your patients.
Upcoming Calls:
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CKD Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO)
When:
1st and 3rd Thursdays 12-1 p.m.
ECHO uses videoconferencing to connect an interdisciplinary team of experts with primary care providers. They collaborate in interactive case-based learning sessions to help primary care providers develop advanced skills and best practices
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CMS Quality Conference 2020
The CMS Quality Conference will convene 3,000 leaders across the health care spectrum, to explore how patients, advocates, providers, researchers, and champions in health care quality improvement can develop and spread solutions to address to America’s most pervasive health system challenges
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Dates:
Feb. 25 - Feb. 27
Location:
Baltimore Hilton
401 West Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
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Living Donor Workshop
The Big Ask, The Big Give
Date:
March 8 1:30-5:30 p.m.
Location:
Hilton Garden Inn
8600 Northpark Drive
Johnston, IA 50131
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As part of the Network’s efforts to support facility level patient engagement, each month we provide a “Topic of the Month” sheet for the upcoming monthly topic.
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Patient Engagement in Action
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All Aboard the Transplant Train!
Peggy S., the Network Patient Representative at Flint Hills Dialysis in Manhattan, Kansas created a fun and educational door display to encourage healthy eating during the holidays. Michelle Parker, the Clinic Manager, shared that the next patient engagement activity they are working on is a BSI Lobby Day with the theme “We will WASH you”, using the Queen song “We will Rock you” and encouraging patients to wash their hands and access. What a great example of patient engagement. Keep up the great work!!!
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If you have something you’d like to share about what’s happening at your dialysis clinic, please reach out by email or your clinic can
send in a report
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Network Patient Representatives (NPR) Honor Wall
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Thanks to everyone for sending in your pictures… it’s great to see everyone’s smiling faces!
Thank you to all the facility staff who worked with and supported the NPRs in 2019! If you have a current NPR enrolled with the Network, you should have received a Certificate of Appreciation to present to your NPR. To add your NPR to the wall, please take a photo and email it to DeeDee at
dvelasquez-peralta@qsource.org
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Quality Improvement Corner
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Home and Transplant Resources
In 2020, increasing home therapy and kidney transplantation is a national focus and therefore a Network-wide focus for all facilities. See the
February QIA Update
for valuable resources you can use at your clinic.
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Culpepper Exum Scholarship for People with Kidney Disease Now Available for Missouri and Kansas Residents
Two scholarships will be provided per year. They are intended to help dialysis and transplant patients attend any in-person or online post-secondary school or job training program. Up to $1,000 will be awarded per state (Missouri and Kansas) once annually. Visit the
National Kidney Foundation website
for more details. The deadline to apply is May 1.
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New Tool: Managing Infection in an Outpatient Dialysis Facility
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Nephrologists Transforming Dialysis Safety (NTDS) have partnered to develop a fresh, new online learning module,
Managing Infection in an Outpatient Dialysis Facility
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Updated Vaccination Toolkit and Immunization Data Collection
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Updates in 2020 include the new CDC guidelines for immunizations and a substantially updated Immunization Data Collection Tool.
This tool is a downloadable excel spreadsheet that can be customized to a facility. It allows a facility to track vaccination information on individual patients and includes pre-calculated fields to track immunization rates within the facility.
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Providers.Exchange (P.E) Being Phased Out
We will not be using Providers.Exchange for any of the 2020 QIA Projects, and will use email for those communications and reports. If you have any questions please email us at
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REMEMBER: NHSN Data Deadlines
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NHSN
is the nation’s most widely used healthcare-associated infection tracking system. NHSN provides facilities, states, regions, and the nation with data needed to identify problem areas, measure the progress of prevention efforts, and ultimately eliminate healthcare-associated infections.
Contact the NHSN Helpdesk (
NHSN@cdc.gov
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2020 NHSN Data Deadlines
- Q4 (Oct.-Dec 2019.): March 31
- Q1 (Jan.-March 2020): June 30
- Q2 (April-June 2020): Sept. 30
- Q3 (Jul.-Sept. 2020): Dec. 31
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Facilities should:
Contact the NHSN Helpdesk
(
nhsn@cdc.gov
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subject line ‘Dialysis’) with any questions.
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Recalls and Safety Alerts
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This resource was developed while under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Contract #HHSM-500-2016-00012C. The contents presented do not necessarily reflect CMS policy. 20.Q-ESRD12.02.015
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