Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Handy Hygiene
2023-02-21 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 9: CDC’s Core Practices – Hand Hygiene

Description:

Live Recording- Learn about a project happening in New Jersey, that is making a splash with soap & water! Our IPRO team of experts will share some of their findings.

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Minimizing Potential Exposures
2023-02-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 13: CDC’s Core IP Practices – Minimizing Potential Exposures

Description: Live Recording

CLAS Theme 2: CLAS Standards 5-8
2023-02-22 12:00 - 12:30 | Online via Zoom
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In this session, IPRO and participants will discuss:
CLAS Theme 2: Communication and Language Assistance
CLAS Standard 5:

Offer language assistance to individuals who have limited English proficiency and/or other communication needs, at no cost to them, to facilitate timely access to all health care and services.

CLAS Standard 6:

Inform all individuals of the availability of language assistance services clearly and in their preferred language, verbally and in writing.

CLAS Standard 7:

Ensure the competence of individuals providing language assistance, recognizing that the use of untrained individuals and/or minors as interpreters should be avoided.

CLAS Standard 8:

Provide easy-to-understand print and multimedia materials and signage in the languages commonly used by the populations in the service area.

What is CLAS?
Culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) are a way to improve the quality of services provided to all individuals, which will ultimately help reduce health disparities and achieve health equity. CLAS is about respect and responsiveness: Respect the whole individual and Respond to their health needs and preferences.
Why is CLAS Important?
CLAS helps advance health equity to ensure that every person can “attain his or her full health potential” and no one is “disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances.” While many factors impact health equity, providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services is an effective strategy to ensure better health outcomes for diverse populations.
Join IPRO for a webinar series covering the themes and standards based on the HHS National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care. Complete the IPRO CLAS Assessment to understand where your organization is with its implementation of CLAS and use that to develop an action plan to address opportunities for improvement. This webinar series will walk through how to develop an action plan, best practices, and resources to help implement your action plan.

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Handy Hygiene-IP3
2023-02-23 11:00 - 11:30 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 9: CDC’s Core Practices – Hand Hygiene — IP3 (Infection Prevention for Infection Preventionists by Infection Preventionists) Office Hrs

Description:
While you’re at your desk trying to catch up on a myriad of issues, jump on the IPRO QIN-QIO IP3 Office Hours call to hear what people are experiencing, share ideas, and brainstorm solutions.

Complex Care- Highlighting: SmartCare
2023-02-23 12:00 - 12:30 | Online via Zoom
Mobile integrated healthcare (MIH) resource in Massachusetts. SmartCare leverages the skill of highly trained medical personnel, extending the reach of a patient’s care team, and ensuring patient-centered care for high risk or chronically ill patients.
Complex Care Educational Series wrap-up and discussion.

Partnering Beyond COVID-19: Management of Patients with Chronic Conditions: Heart Health
2023-02-28 10:00 - 11:00 | Online via Zoom
Session Topic: Management of Patients with Chronic Conditions: Heart Health
Description:
Almost half of adults in the United States live with hypertension, and many do not know it. High blood pressure is a leading cause and a controllable risk factor for heart disease and stroke. Despite the many benefits of Cardiac Rehabilitation, enrollment remains quite low –nationally, only 10% to 34% of eligible patients enroll.
Join us to recognize National Heart Month and receive important updates from the Million Hearts® campaign. Our speaker, Haley Stolp, MPH, from Million Hearts®, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will talk about the evidence-based tools and resources that are available to support hypertension control and cardiac rehabilitation participation.
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Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Environmental Cleaning & Disinfection
2023-02-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 10: CDC’s Core Practices – Environmental Cleaning & Disinfection

Description:
Live Recording- This session will offer tips and ideas to strengthen your routines and systems. Be sure to bring your team so we can learn from them in this peer to peer learning session.

CLAS Theme 3, CLAS Standards 9-11
2023-03-01 12:00 - 12:30 | Online via Zoom
In this session, IPRO and participants will discuss:
CLAS Standard 9:

Establish culturally and linguistically appropriate goals, policies, and management accountability, and infuse them throughout the organization’s planning and operations.

CLAS Standard 10:

Conduct ongoing assessments of the organization’s CLAS-related activities and integrate CLAS-related measures into measurement and continuous quality improvement activities.

CLAS Standard 11:

Collect and maintain accurate and reliable demographic data to monitor and evaluate the impact of CLAS on health equity and outcomes, and to inform service delivery

What is CLAS?
Culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) are a way to improve the quality of services provided to all individuals, which will ultimately help reduce health disparities and achieve health equity. CLAS is about respect and responsiveness: Respect the whole individual and Respond to their health needs and preferences.
Why is CLAS Important?
CLAS helps advance health equity to ensure that every person can “attain his or her full health potential” and no one is “disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances.” While many factors impact health equity, providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services is an effective strategy to ensure better health outcomes for diverse populations.
Join IPRO for a webinar series covering the themes and standards based on the HHS National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care. Complete the IPRO CLAS Assessment to understand where your organization is with its implementation of CLAS and use that to develop an action plan to address opportunities for improvement. This webinar series will walk through how to develop an action plan, best practices, and resources to help implement your action plan.

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Environmental Cleaning & Disinfection (Live Replay)
2023-03-01 15:30 - 16:30 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 10: CDC’s Core Practices – Environmental Cleaning & Disinfection – Live replay
Description: Live Replay- This session will offer tips and ideas to strengthen your routines and systems. Be sure to bring your team so we can learn from them in this peer to peer learning session

A Pharmacy-Based Approach to Caring for Individuals with Opioid-Use Disorder
2023-03-02 10:00 - 11:00 | Online via Zoom
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Deaths from drug overdoses rose sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic, underscoring the need for a more proactive approach to treat individuals with opioid use disorder. Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) combined with compassionate, stigma-free care is an approach that can make a difference. Unfortunately many of those who are prescribed treatment often encounter barriers, such as travel, inconvenient hours, time-consuming paperwork and bureaucracy, stigma and more.
A recent study from researchers at Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital and the University of Rhode Island enabled pharmacists trained in the foundations of addiction treatment to be a convenient and community-based location for patients to access care and medication.

Please join the IPRO QIN-QIO on March 2 to learn more about this pharmacy-based approach from Dr. Jeffrey Bratberg, a study author and clinical professor of pharmacy practice at the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy.
0106-9999-23-014-L08-P
(1 contact hour; 0.1 CEU-Knowledge-based)
Upon participation in this session, attendees will:
1. Recognize the urgent need for barrier-free medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder,
2. Explain the key elements of a of pharmacy-based buprenorphine induction, and
3. Describe the benefits of expanding access.
JEFFREY BRATBERG, Pharm.D., FAPhA
Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice
University of Rhode Island
College of Pharmacy

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Environmental Cleaning & Disinfection- IP3
2023-03-02 11:00 - 11:30 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 10: CDC’s Core Practices – Environmental Cleaning & Disinfection – IP3 (Infection Prevention for Infection Preventionists by Infection Preventionists

Description: While you’re at your desk trying to catch up on a myriad of issues, jump on the IPRO QIN-QIO IP3 Office Hours call to hear what people are experiencing, share ideas, and brainstorm solutions.

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Injection & Medication Safety
2023-03-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 11: CDC’s Core Practices: Injection and Medication Safety

Description: Live Recording

CLAS Theme 3: CLAS Standards 12-15
2023-03-08 12:00 - 12:30 | Online via Zoom
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In this session, IPRO and participants will discuss:
CLAS Standard 12:

Conduct regular assessments of community health assets and needs, and use the results to plan and implement services that respond to the cultural and linguistic diversity of populations in the service area.

CLAS Standard 13:

Partner with the community to design, implement, and evaluate policies, practices, and services to ensure cultural and linguistic appropriateness.

CLAS Standard 14:

Create conflict and grievance resolution processes that are culturally and linguistically appropriate to identify, prevent, and resolve conflicts or complaints.

CLAS Standard 15:

Communicate the organization’s progress in implementing and sustaining CLAS to all stakeholders, constituents, and the general public.

What is CLAS?
Culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) are a way to improve the quality of services provided to all individuals, which will ultimately help reduce health disparities and achieve health equity. CLAS is about respect and responsiveness: Respect the whole individual and Respond to their health needs and preferences.
Why is CLAS Important?
CLAS helps advance health equity to ensure that every person can “attain his or her full health potential” and no one is “disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances.” While many factors impact health equity, providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services is an effective strategy to ensure better health outcomes for diverse populations.
Join IPRO for a webinar series covering the themes and standards based on the HHS National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care. Complete the IPRO CLAS Assessment to understand where your organization is with its implementation of CLAS and use that to develop an action plan to address opportunities for improvement. This webinar series will walk through how to develop an action plan, best practices, and resources to help implement your action plan.

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Injection & Medication Safety (Live Replay)
2023-03-08 15:30 - 16:30 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 11: CDC’s Core Practices – Injection and Medication Safety – Live Replay

Description: Live Replay

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Injection & Medication Safety- IP3
2023-03-09 11:00 - 11:30 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 11: CDC’s Core Practices: Injection and Medication Safety – IP3 (Infection Prevention for Infection Preventionists by Infection Preventionists)

Description: While you’re at your desk trying to catch up on a myriad of issues, jump on the IPRO QIN-QIO IP3 Office Hours call to hear what people are experiencing, share ideas, and brainstorm solutions.

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Risk Assessment with Appropriate Use of PPE
2023-03-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 12: CDC’s Core Practices – Risk Assessment with Appropriate use of PPE

Description: Live Recording

Partnering Beyond COVID-19: Learning Circle: Heart Health
2023-03-15 11:00 - 11:30 | Online via Zoom
Session Topic: Learning Circle: Heart Health
Description: Review and Check-in
COVID-19 has changed healthcare in many ways and has delayed chronic disease management for many patients. Patients needing follow-up appointments for their chronic disease were not able to schedule appointments due to decrease in in-person visits, laboratory closures for routine testing, and less access to community-based programs.

Our program over the next few months will share evidence based practices and innovative strategies that have emerged to improve prevention and management of chronic disease and outcomes.

Upon completion of this educational series, participants will be able to:

Participants will develop deeper understanding of best practices and evidence-based tools for prevention and management of hypertension, chronic kidney disease (CKD), and diabetes,
Participants will enhance their knowledge of Million Hearts, TAKEHeart and IPRO QIN-QIO tools for increasing referrals to and participation in cardiac rehabilitation programs, and
Participants will enhance their knowledge about chronic disease health disparities and the best practices for addressing these disparities, to support better health outcomes.

Audience: Partnership for Community Health, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, physician practices, and community-based organizations.

CLAS Theme 3, CLAS Standard 9, and CLAS Standard 10
2023-03-15 12:00 - 12:30 | Online via Zoom
In this final session of the CLAS series, IPRO will share additional resources that participants might find helpful to support CLAS:

CMS Office of Minority Health Resources
AHRQ Resources
IPRO Resources

Final Q&A
Wrap-Up

What is CLAS?
Culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) are a way to improve the quality of services provided to all individuals, which will ultimately help reduce health disparities and achieve health equity. CLAS is about respect and responsiveness: Respect the whole individual and Respond to their health needs and preferences.
Why is CLAS Important?
CLAS helps advance health equity to ensure that every person can “attain his or her full health potential” and no one is “disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances.” While many factors impact health equity, providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services is an effective strategy to ensure better health outcomes for diverse populations.
Join IPRO for a webinar series covering the themes and standards based on the HHS National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care. Complete the IPRO CLAS Assessment to understand where your organization is with its implementation of CLAS and use that to develop an action plan to address opportunities for improvement. This webinar series will walk through how to develop an action plan, best practices, and resources to help implement your action plan.

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Risk Assessment with Appropriate Use of PPE (Live Replay)
2023-03-15 15:30 - 16:30 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 12: CDC’s Core Practices – Risk Assessment with Appropriate use of PPE – Live Replay

Description: Live Replay

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Risk Assessment with Appropriate Use of PPE- IP3
2023-03-16 11:00 - 11:30 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 12: CDC’s Core Practices – Risk Assessment with Appropriate use of PPE – IP3 (Infection Prevention for Infection Preventionists by Infection Preventionists)

Description: While you’re at your desk trying to catch up on a myriad of issues, jump on the IPRO QIN-QIO IP3 Office Hours call to hear what people are experiencing, share ideas, and brainstorm solutions.

Disrupting Substance Use Disorder Together
2023-03-16 12:30 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
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Description:
Take 30 minutes and let us share information and resources to disrupt the substance use epidemic in our communities. We need the support of primary care practitioners to make a difference. Tosin David, PharmD, will bring you current information on the CDC Pain Management Guidelines and review MAT Act along with other regulations to improve access to care. We will highlight two guides that will assist in reimbursement and finding resources related to the social determinants of health that many patients are challenged with. Come help us make a difference.
Objectives:

Highlight updates to the CDC Pain Management Guidelines
Review how the MAT Act and other regulations that will improve access to care
Understand the intersection of social determinants of health and substance use disorder

The IPRO QIN-QIO consists of IPRO, Qlarant and Healthcentric Advisors to support healthcare providers across our 11 states (CT, DE, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, OH, RI, VT) and the District of Columbia. The goal is to enhance community health and focus on CMS quality goals: reduce opioid misuse, increase prevention and management of chronic conditions, enhance care coordination, further immunizations, support emergency preparedness and improve infection control practices.

IPRO HQIC Sepsis Affinity Group: Mid-to-large sized Hospitals
2023-03-16 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!

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Minimizing Potential Exposures (Live Replay)
2023-03-22 15:30 - 16:30 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 13: CDC’s Core IP Practices – Minimizing Potential Exposures – Live Replay

Description: Live Replay

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Minimizing Potential Exposures- IP3
2023-03-23 11:00 - 11:30 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 13: CDC’s Core IP Practices – Minimizing Potential Exposures – IP3 (Infection Prevention for Infection Preventionists by Infection Preventionists)

Description: While you’re at your desk trying to catch up on a myriad of issues, jump on the IPRO QIN-QIO IP3 Office Hours call to hear what people are experiencing, share ideas, and brainstorm solutions.

Voices from the Field Series: Integrating Z-Codes into Your Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Strategy
2023-03-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via WebEx
Hospitals and health systems are working to address the non-medical factors that influence health, known as social determinants of health (SDOH). Although not yet widely adopted, Z-codes are important to your strategy. In this session, you will hear how a hospital—through a pilot with their EHR vendor—advanced their SDOH strategy while embracing their organizational
culture.
Additionally, you will learn from a subject matter expert about the nuts and bolts of integrating Z-codes into your collection and representation of performance and financial metrics.
In this session, you will learn:

How the Valley Health System in New Jersey developed a pilot program with their EMR vendor to screen for SDOH and integrate select Z-codes into a bill-based structure. They did this by conducting internal and external scans of their patients served and available community resources to address targeted social determinants of health needs.
How collecting and reporting Z-codes will impact financial reimbursement by linking social determinants of health, patient acuity, and other risk factors that will be important to ensure reimbursement and performance metrics which will accurately reflect the breadth and depth of patient need, services delivered, and actual health outcomes.

Who Should Attend?

Population Health Managers, Case Managers, Discharge Planners, Quality Improvement Teams, Social Workers, Admissions, Community-Based Organizations, Post-Acute Care Providers, Nurses, Hospitalists, NPs/PAs, Physician Practices

This program will be recorded and available for access post-event
If you have any questions, please reach out to your Senior Quality Improvement Specialist:

Cindy Stark- cstark@ipro.org– NY and NJ
Fred Ratto- fratto2@ipro.org– NY and NJ
Gail Gresko- ggresko@ipro.org – OH

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Reprocessing of Reusable Medical Equipment
2023-03-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 14: Reprocessing of Reusable Medical Equipment

Description: Live Recording

Partnering Beyond COVID-19: Management of Patients with Chronic Conditions: Kidney Health: CKD
2023-03-29 11:00 - 12:00 | Online via Zoom
Session Topic: Management of Patients with Chronic Conditions: Kidney Health: CKD
Description:
CKD affects more than 1 in 7 U.S. adults. For patients with diabetes or high blood pressure, the risk for CKD is even greater.
Interventions that can slow progression of CKD include early identification, controlling blood pressure, controlling blood glucose, reducing albuminuria, eating a healthy diet and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Join us to learn more about early identification of CKD, treatment and monitoring progression, and delivering patient-centered care.

Nursing Home Sepsis Learning Circle
2023-03-29 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via WebEx
Sepsis impacts individuals across the continuum of care, with 80%-90% of sepsis-related infections occurring in the home and community. Every two minutes, someone dies of sepsis, leading to more than a quarter of a million sepsis deaths each year in patients both young and old. Every 20 seconds a person is hospitalized with sepsis, and one-in-four are re-hospitalized within 30 days. Sepsis deaths can be substantially preventable, but the solution requires participation and collaboration across the entire health care system. The Sepsis Learning Circle offers a forum for education and sharing of resources and best practices targeting early identification of sepsis with a goal for all participants to benefit from the wisdom and experience of the group to improve resident outcomes.

Join other clinicians and subject matter experts in conversation focused on sepsis identification and treatment as a medical emergency.
IPRO QIN-QIO Sepsis Learning Circle meetings will provide the opportunity to:

Discuss the signs and symptoms of sepsis, the importance of early recognition and established protocols for emergent treatment.
Ask a subject matter expert about sepsis protocols in the long-term care setting.
Review the components of a turnkey Sepsis Train-the-Trainer Toolkit with materials and talking points to train all levels of staff within your facility.

Subject Matter Expert:
Sara Butterfield, RN, BSN, CPHQ
Assistant Vice President, Healthcare Quality Improvement Program

Please note: Session Two takes place on Wednesday, June 28 from 12 – 1 pm. Register here.

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Reprocessing of Reusable Medical Equipment (Live Replay)
2023-03-29 15:30 - 16:30 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: CDC’s Core IP Practices – Week 14: Reprocessing of Reusable Medical Equipment – Live Replay

Description: Live Replay

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Reprocessing of Reusable Medical Equipment- IP3
2023-03-30 11:00 - 11:30 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: CDC’s Core IP Practices – Week 14: Reprocessing of Reusable Medical Equipment – IP3 (Infection Prevention for Infection Preventionists by Infection Preventionists) Office Hrs

Description: While you’re at your desk trying to catch up on a myriad of issues, jump on the IPRO QIN-QIO IP3 Office Hours call to hear what people are experiencing, share ideas, and brainstorm solutions.
