Your Worst Day: You Don't Know What You Don't Know
2023-04-27 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom
Description: Collaboration is the key to success in preparing for and navigating an actual emergency. Hear the stories of those who have managed the emergency response during Hurricane Michael, a category 3-4 storm in October 2018, to ensure safety and success through collaboration with other organizations and partners.
In this session participants will:

Recognize community partners who can have a positive impact on preparations and planning.
Consider potential partners that should be brought into your organization’s plan.

Seth Maxwell
Archibald Hospital, Thomasville, GA
Julie Miller
Phoebe Memorial Hospital, Albany, GA
Sandi Cole
FEMA Resource Specialist
Health Care Coalition Member

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Transitions in Care: Preventing Sepsis-Related Readmissions
2023-04-27 13:00 - 14:00 | Online via WebEx
Anyone can develop sepsis, a life-threatening, complex and challenging condition to manage. There are significant human and financial costs associated with it. Every year more than 1.7 million adults in the U.S. develop sepsis, leading to over 270,000 deaths. Roughly 19% of sepsis survivors are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days, leading to $3.1 billion in annual costs. Well-defined systems and processes across the continuum are crucial to delivering the right care at the right time to the right patient.
This event will feature proactive transitions in care and hand-off strategies to the next level of care provider to improve patient outcomes and prevent sepsis-related readmissions. The patient voice will be highlighted via a sepsis survivor story. Key discharge planning, patient and family engagement, health equity, infection prevention and patient education tactics will also be shared.
Learning Objectives:
Through this program, participants will:

Review successful care coordination and partnership strategies across the care continuum to prevent sepsis-related hospital readmissions.
Explore promising practices for overcoming challenges that affect handoffs to the next level of care.
Learn how to engage patients and families as partners and integrate their health-related social needs into the discharge planning process to improve patient outcomes.
Hear about a sepsis survivor story

Who Should Attend:
Nurses, Sepsis Coordinators, Care Coordinators, Front-line and Emergency Department Staff, Infection Preventionists, Clinical and Hospital Leaders, Physicians, Patient Safety and Quality Professionals.

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Change Pathway

Fall and Injury Prevention: Enhancing Capacity- Reengineering Fall and Fall Injury Programs: Infrastructure, Capacity and Sustainability
2023-05-03 14:00 - 15:00 | Online via WebEx
Falls represent a major public health problem around the world and continue to be the most common adverse event in healthcare settings.The IPRO Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor (HQIC), in collaboration with Dr. Pat Quigley, Nurse Consultant, invites you to participate in a patient safety webinar program beginning May 3, 2023.
The Fall and Injury Prevention webinar series features six monthly webinars, each followed by open forum/coaching sessions.
Who should attend
This program is appropriate for direct healthcare providers, managers, administrators, risk managers, educators, and researchers of any discipline who are involved in fall and fall injury prevention programs
Your participation will

Support organizational systems and teams to expand program infrastructure and capacity;
Help you redesign your fall prevention and injury reduction program; Complement your evaluation program; and
Provide access to an online learning community to increase exchange of experiences, innovations, and best practice implementations.

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VHA National Center for Patient Safety Falls Toolkit

Your Worst Day: The Impact of Trauma
2023-05-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Description: Community response to emergencies, whether fire, flood or natural disasters, can be traumatizing and harrowing for family, residents, patients and staff. The impact can be lasting, causing transfer trauma and even higher mortality for people living with dementia. This discussion will offer insights and strategies to lessen the impact.
In this session participants will:

Recognize the impact of traumatic emergencies on family, residents, patients and staff.
Identify preparations, education and training that might be needed now to mitigate problems during or after an emergency.

Vince Gildone-EMS Chief
Sue Anne Bell
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Leaders Forum: Partnership for Community Health - Q2: Medication Management During Transitions Session 1
2023-05-04 15:00 - 16:00 | Online via Zoom
May Leader’s Forum
We have great educational sessions planned to encourage peer-to-peer sharing across our region
Topic: Medication Management During Transitions

Discover ways to incorporate enhanced community pharmacy services (at no charge) to support care transitions.
Firsthand accounts from patients on medication management.
Learn how an emergency department enhanced its medication reconciliation process using technology.

Speakers

Dixie Leikach, RPh, MBA, PRS, FACA, CPESN Maryland
Erica Fredette, South Shore Health
Rosie Bartel, Patient Partner

Leaders Forum: Partnership for Community Health - Q2: Medication Management During Transitions Session 2
2023-05-10 11:00 - 12:00 | Online via Zoom
May Leader’s Forum
We have great educational sessions planned to encourage peer-to-peer sharing across our region
Topic: Medication Management During Transitions

Discover ways to incorporate enhanced community pharmacy services (at no charge) to support care transitions.
Firsthand accounts from patients on medication management.
Learn how pharmacies can support patients with Opioid Use Disorder.

Speakers

Dixie Leikach, RPh, MBA, PRS, FACA, CPESN Maryland
Jeffrey Bratberg, Pharm.D.,FAPhA, the University of Rhode island
Janice Tufte, Patient Partner

Partnering Beyond COVID-19: Management of Patients with Chronic Conditions: Heart Health - Cardiac Rehab
2023-05-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Session: Management of Patients with Chronic Conditions: Heart Health – Cardiac Rehab
Description:
Despite the many benefits of Cardiac Rehabilitation, enrollment remains quite low – nationally, only 10% to 34% of eligible patients enroll.

Join us to learn more about tools to support awareness of the value of Cardiac Rehabilitation with patients, reduce barriers to participation, and implement evidence-based interventions.
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Your Worst Day: The Media at Your Door
2023-05-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Description: Our final session provides the opportunity to share, ask and hear from experts and other participants related to handling both local and national media and cameras right outside your door.
In this session participants will:

Discuss some of the challenges and mitigation strategies they experience
Dealing with media and rumor control
Communicating with families, dealing with challenging situations, when the story turns negative on social media
Staff policies for social media use

Tracy Pate,
Public Health Emergency Preparedness Specialist
Steve Bosso, Assistant Fire Chief, Twinsburg
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Rhode Island Tobacco Cessation: Engaging Community Pharmacy
2023-05-11 13:00 - 13:30 | Online via Zoom
Description:
Committing to quit is the first step for your patients. Connecting them with other community resources that can support their journey is critical for their success.
Join us for this session, in which Dr. Anita Jacobson will explore how you can collaborate with community pharmacists to support you patient’s effort to quit for good.
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HQIC Community of Practice Call: Partnering with Patients & Families to Prevent All-Cause Harm
2023-05-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Online via Zoom
Preventing all-cause harm continues to be a national priority. In 2016, an estimated 2.7 million harm events affecting hospital inpatients occurred, leading to more than 80,000 deaths at a cost of nearly $29 billion. According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, nearly 44 percent of these events and deaths could have been prevented. Studies have shown that people who are more involved in their care tend to be more satisfied, more likely to understand their acute and chronic conditions, and are able to make informed decisions that can better help them.
This event will feature strategies for hospitals and patients/families to engage as partners to ensure the right care is being delivered to the right patient at the right time to foster improvements in patient safety, health care quality, patient outcomes and equity, while also minimizing staff burden.
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Universal Precautions in Pain Management: A Person-Centered Approach to Preventing Opioid Misuse
2023-05-18 11:00 - 12:00 | Online via Zoom
Join Healthcentric Advisors’ Dr. Rebekah Gardner and Marghie Guiliano as well as Jenn McCarthy, LPC, New England Rural Health Association, to explore validated assessment tools, consider the new CDC prescribing guidelines, discuss complementary therapies, and explore tools and resources that will help your team support your patients and community.
Upon attending this session, participants will be able to:
1. Implement evidence-based assessments of patients’ physical and behavioral needs.
2. Describe a holistic treatment plan.
3. Access tools and resources to better support patients and the community.

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IPRO HQIC Sepsis Affinity Group: Mid-to-large sized Hospitals
2023-05-18 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-06-15 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-07-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Online via WebEx
Sepsis remains a national priority and is a complex and challenging condition to manage. Despite substantial attention to improvement, an opportunity still exists to decrease sepsis-related morbidity and mortality. More than 1.7 million adults in the U.S develop sepsis every year, leading to over 270,000 deaths (CDC, 2020).
Hospitals are committed to improving care, outcomes, and costs; however, many have expressed they wrestle with where and how to start their quality improvement efforts.
IPRO is launching a 6-month Sepsis Affinity Group to help support and provide a networking forum specifically for mid-to-large sized hospitals as they work to reduce sepsis-related harm. With the shared goal of accelerating learning and improvement, participants will have access to content experts and a platform to share experiences, evidence-based practices, and tools, as well as explore successes, challenges and lessons learned to drive progress on sepsis-related harm. Some topics to be included are sepsis screening, SEP-1 bundle compliance and reporting, and more.

On behalf of the IPRO HQIC team, we look forward to your joining and working together with the Sepsis Affinity Group!

LINKS: Furthering Health Equity in Your Community
2023-05-18 15:00 - 16:00 | Online via Zoom
Description:
During each session, we will review a topic of focus:
– Consider the importance of this health area
– Explore opportunities for community-based organizations to engage and support community health in this area
– Share challenges and best practices to expand reach and impact community health.
Join our 2023 quarterly forums to explore mutual goals and opportunities to enhance the impact our partnership can have on community health.

PROGRAM CANCELLED: Paving the Way for Evidence-Based Care across the Continuum
2023-05-25 11:00 - 12:00
Join us as Seth Clark, MD & Juliette Holtzman, MSW from LifeSpan Addiction Medicine team share their approach to supporting individuals living with Opioid Use Disorder.
Upon attending this session, participants will be able to:
1. Identify key considerations to support uptake of patient-centered and evidence-based care.
2. Explore promising practices for delivering treatment for opioid use disorder.
3. Consider steps to enrich treatment efforts across your community.

Fall and Injury Prevention: Redesigning Post-Fall Management: Prevent Repeat Falls
2023-06-07 14:00 - 15:00 | Online via WebEx
Falls represent a major public health problem around the world and continue to be the most common adverse event in healthcare settings. The IPRO Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor (HQIC), in collaboration with Dr. Pat Quigley, Nurse Consultant, invites you to participate in a patient safety webinar program beginning May 3, 2023.
The Fall and Injury Prevention webinar series features six monthly webinars, each followed by open forum/coaching sessions.
Who should attend
This program is appropriate for direct healthcare providers, managers, administrators, risk managers, educators, and researchers of any discipline who are involved in fall and fall injury prevention programs
Your participation will

Support organizational systems and teams to expand program infrastructure and capacity;
Help you redesign your fall prevention and injury reduction program; Complement your evaluation program; and
Provide access to an online learning community to increase exchange of experiences, innovations, and best practice implementations.

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Post-Fall Audit Tool
Post-Fall Huddle Form

Fall and Injury Prevention: Best Practices to Reduce Falls Associated with Toileting
2023-07-05 14:00 - 15:00 | Online via WebEx
Falls represent a major public health problem around the world and continue to be the most common adverse event in healthcare settings.The IPRO Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor (HQIC), in collaboration with Dr. Pat Quigley, Nurse Consultant, invites you to participate in a patient safety webinar program beginning May 3, 2023.
The Fall and Injury Prevention webinar series features six monthly webinars, each followed by open forum/coaching sessions.
Who should attend
This program is appropriate for direct healthcare providers, managers, administrators, risk managers, educators, and researchers of any discipline who are involved in fall and fall injury prevention programs
Your participation will

Support organizational systems and teams to expand program infrastructure and capacity;
Help you redesign your fall prevention and injury reduction program; Complement your evaluation program; and
Provide access to an online learning community to increase exchange of experiences, innovations, and best practice implementations.

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Watch Learning Session Recording
View Coaching Session Slides
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Fall and Injury Prevention: Safe Mobility is Fall Prevention
2023-08-02 14:00 - 15:00 | Online via WebEx
Falls represent a major public health problem around the world and continue to be the most common adverse event in healthcare settings.The IPRO Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor (HQIC), in collaboration with Dr. Pat Quigley, Nurse Consultant, invites you to participate in a patient safety webinar program beginning May 3, 2023.
The Fall and Injury Prevention webinar series features six monthly webinars, each followed by open forum/coaching sessions.
Who should attend
This program is appropriate for direct healthcare providers, managers, administrators, risk managers, educators, and researchers of any discipline who are involved in fall and fall injury prevention programs.
Your participation will

Support organizational systems and teams to expand program infrastructure and capacity.
Help you redesign your fall prevention and injury reduction program, complement your evaluation program.
Provide access to an online learning community to increase exchange of experiences, innovations, and best practice implementations.

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Watch Learning Session Recording
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LINKS: Supporting Communities with Opioids and Pain Management
2023-08-17 15:00 - 16:00 | Online via Zoom
Description:
During this session, community-based programs from Ohio, Maryland, and Maine will share their approach to supporting communities with opioids and pain management through harm reduction, prevention, treatment, and recovery programs.
Please join us to learn more, share your own promising practices, and problem-solve with peers from across the 11-state and District of Columbia IPRO QIN-QIO Network.

Fall and Injury Prevention: Population-specific Fall and Injury Fall Prevention
2023-09-06 14:00 - 15:00 | Online via WebEx
Falls represent a major public health problem around the world and continue to be the most common adverse event in healthcare settings.The IPRO Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor (HQIC), in collaboration with Dr. Pat Quigley, Nurse Consultant, invites you to participate in a patient safety webinar program beginning May 3, 2023.
The Fall and Injury Prevention webinar series features six monthly webinars, each followed by open forum/coaching sessions.
Who should attend
This program is appropriate for direct healthcare providers, managers, administrators, risk managers, educators, and researchers of any discipline who are involved in fall and fall injury prevention programs
Your participation will

Support organizational systems and teams to expand program infrastructure and capacity;
Help you redesign your fall prevention and injury reduction program; Complement your evaluation program; and
Provide access to an online learning community to increase exchange of experiences, innovations, and best practice implementations.

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Ready or Not, Here it Comes!: Preparing to Submit the CMS Health Equity Structural Measure
2023-09-21 12:00 - 12:30 | Online via WebEx
Hospitals participating in the CMS Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program are required to submit structural measures for CY2023 into the CMS Hospital Quality Reporting system. Submissions are due between April 1, 2024 – May 15, 2024.
One of the required structural measures is the Hospital Commitment to Health Equity. In this 30-minute session, IPRO will share what you will need to report to CMS, which documentation
you will need to support your submission, the optional Social Drivers of Health process measures, and what’s coming related to health equity for the CY2024 Hospital Quality Reporting programs.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
12:00 – 12:30 PM ET

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Fall and Injury Prevention: Reducing Fall-related Injuries: Protective Interventions’ Evidence, Application and Success
2023-10-04 14:00 - 15:00 | Online via WebEx
Falls represent a major public health problem around the world and continue to be the most common adverse event in healthcare settings.The IPRO Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor (HQIC), in collaboration with Dr. Pat Quigley, Nurse Consultant, invites you to participate in a patient safety webinar program beginning May 3, 2023.
The Fall and Injury Prevention webinar series features six monthly webinars, each followed by open forum/coaching sessions.
Who should attend
This program is appropriate for direct healthcare providers, managers, administrators, risk managers, educators, and researchers of any discipline who are involved in fall and fall injury prevention programs
Your participation will

Support organizational systems and teams to expand program infrastructure and capacity;
Help you redesign your fall prevention and injury reduction program; Complement your evaluation program; and
Provide access to an online learning community to increase exchange of experiences, innovations, and best practice implementations.

Watch Learning Session Recording
View Coaching Session Slides

Creating and Implementing Your Workplace Violence Policy
2023-11-16 11:00 - 12:00 | Online via WebEx
Topics to be Covered:

Where do you start? What is your program going to look like?
How did you approach assembling the multi-disciplinary team to work
on policy and procedure development?
Who takes the lead on investigating allegations or incidents of
workplace violence?
What kind of support is available for employees who experience any
form of workplace violence?
How are workplace violence policies and procedures communicated?

LINKS: Supporting Individuals with or at Risk for Diabetes
2023-11-16 15:00 - 16:00 | Online via Zoom
Description:
During each session, we will review a topic of focus:
– Consider the importance of this health area
– Explore opportunities for community-based organizations to engage and support community health in this area
– Share challenges and best practices to expand reach and impact community health
Join our 2023 quarterly forums to explore mutual goals and opportunities to enhance the impact our partnership can have on community health.

Recognizing and Responding to an Opioid-Involved Breathing Emergency
2023-11-16 19:00 - 20:00 | Online via WebEx
Learning Objectives
At the completion of this activity learners will be able to:

Describe how to effectively recognize and respond to an opioid-involved breathing emergency, including considerations with xylazine and illicitly manufactured fentanyl.
Counsel patients and caregivers on how to use unregulated substances more safely and where to find recovery resources.
Dispel myths and provide facts related to medications for opioid use disorder, passive fentanyl exposure, various naloxone formulations, and liability concerns.

Speaker
Anita Jacobson, PharmD
Clinical Professor; Program Director, Community First Responder Program (CFRP)
University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy
Dr. Anita Jacobson is a Clinical Professor at the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy and has worked as a pharmacist in a variety of patient care settings for 25 years. She is the Program Director of the Community First Responder Program (CFRP) which focuses on harm reduction, overdose education and naloxone outreach to at-risk populations. CFRP is also the hub for the Northeast Regional Rural Opioid Technical Assistance Center
The University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This is an application-based educational activity. Pharmacists will receive 1 contact hour (0.1 CEUs) for the educational activity. No partial credit is available. UNIVERSAL ACTIVITY NUMBER (UAN): 0060-0000-23-040-L01-P. Expiration Date 05/04/2026.
Social Work This activity has been approved by the National Association of Social Workers Rhode Island Chapter for 1.0 credit hour. NASW Authorization # RI-9028. Expiration Date: 04/30/2025.
Licensed Mental Health Counselors This activity has been reviewed and approved by the Rhode Island Mental Health Counselors Association for up to 1.0 contact hour (1.0 CEUs). Expiration Date: 07/25/2024.
Nursing This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation for up to 1.0 contact hour. NEMSD Approval # 557-790-081622. Expiration Date: 08/16/2024.
PROGRAM EVALUATION
All participants will have the opportunity to evaluate the educational sessions, speakers and identify educational needs.
REQUIREMENTS FOR CE CREDIT
A program evaluation must be completed at www.uripharmacycpd.org within 60 days of the live program date (1/15/2024) in order to receive CE credit. CE credit will be transferred to the CPE Monitor upon successful completion of the program evaluation. Transfer of CE credit should be verified at mycpemonitor.net where CE statements are available to print. Please refer to the evaluation instructions that follow for completing program evaluations and reporting CE credit.
FACULTY DISCLOSURE: Relevant conflicts of interest will be disclosed to participants at the start of the educational activity.

Overview of CMS Requirements for Hospital Discharges to Post-Acute Care Providers
2024-03-27 13:00 - 14:00
(QSO-23-16-Hospitals Memorandum)
Comprehensive and effective discharge planning is imperative to ensure continuity of care to support improved patient/resident health outcomes and safety at transfer and discharge to the community. This webinar program will provide an overview of the 6/6/23 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality, Safety & Oversight (QSO) 23-16 – Hospital Memorandum of Requirements for Hospital Discharges to Post-Acute Care Providers (https://www.cms.gov/files/document/qso-23-16-hospitals.pdf) and focus on areas identified by CMS as opportunities for improvement related to inclusion and accuracy of critical patient information. The CMS Conditions of Participation specific to the discharge planning process will also be reviewed as well as resources to facilitate accurate and timely information exchange with providers across the healthcare continuum.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Case Management, Discharge Planners, Social Workers, Admissions, Quality Improvement Teams

SPEAKERS
Gail Gresko, Sr. Quality Improvement Specialist
Patrick Archambeault, MS, RN, CCM, Assistant Director

Leaders Forum 2024 Session #2
2024-04-23 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-07-31 15:00 - 16:00 | Online via Zoom
The IPRO QIN-QIO Leader Forum sessions offer a unique opportunity to connect with providers from across the 11-state and District of Columbia network to explore key questions, share promising practices, and problem-solve with peers.
Be sure to share this invitation with others from your organization and/or community who might find value and/or be able to contribute to the network’s learnings.

Hospitals in Action: Promising Workplace Violence Prevention Strategies for Safer Care
2024-04-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Online via WebEx
Violence against health care workers continues to rise and hospital leaders are seeking strategies to enhance workplace safety while upholding patient care standards. According to data gathered in 2023 by National Nurses United (NNU), 81.6% of nurses reported that they have experienced workplace violence, with half stating they have seen instances of violence increase in the last year.
Join us for Part 4 of the HQIC Workplace Violence (WPV) Prevention webinar series. This dynamic session will feature sharing of real-world experiences and promising WPV prevention practices from healthcare leaders in diverse roles at a rural hospital, community hospital and an urban health system.
Learning Objectives:
• Hear from leaders from diverse hospital settings about successes, challenges and lessons learned from their unique workplace violence prevention journey
• Review key components of system-wide workplace violence prevention programs and the impact on workforce safety
• Identify key strategies and actionable steps healthcare leaders can take to effectively address workplace violence
Who Should Attend:
Hospital leaders, nurses, physicians, front-line and Emergency Department staff, security and safety team specialists, risk management, employee/occupational health, patient safety and quality professionals
