• Your Worst Day: The Impact of Trauma

    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: […]

  • Your Worst Day: The Media at Your Door

    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, […]

  • Boosters and Beyond: Holistic Dementia Care & Antipsychotic Drug Reduction: Perspectives from Psychiatry

    Online via Zoom

    Topic: Boosters and Beyond: Holistic Dementia Care & Antipsychotic Drug Reduction: Perspectives from Psychiatry Description: Nursing homes rely on the services of psychiatric providers to give advice on managing difficult behaviors, violent episodes, and psychotic symptoms of dementia. Maintaining a healthy and collaborative relationship is important to ensure the limiting of antipsychotic use while keeping […]

  • The Top 10 Deficiencies

    Online via Zoom

    Join IPRO for a fast moving, informative experience that explores the Top 10 Deficiencies with tips and ideas for quality Improvement. Starting at 9 am on May 18, with new sessions starting every 30 minutes: Explore each of the top 10 deficiencies. Learn the elements of each deficiency and how they manifest. Discover strategies for […]

  • Universal Precautions in Pain Management: A Person-Centered Approach to Preventing Opioid Misuse

    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 […]

  • Boosters and Beyond: Holistic Dementia Care & Antipsychotic Drug Reduction: Perspectives from Psychiatry (IP3)

    Online via Zoom

    Topic: Boosters and Beyond: Holistic Dementia Care & Antipsychotic Drug Reduction: Perspectives from Psychiatry (IP3 Infection Prevention for Infection Preventionists by Infection Preventionists Office Hours) Description: Calling all Infection Preventionists! This lively discussion features peer-to-peer learning and lots of great ideas. Stop what you’re doing, come take a break, and spend some time with fellow […]

  • IPRO HQIC Sepsis Affinity Group: Mid-to-large sized Hospitals

    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, […]

  • LINKS: Furthering Health Equity in Your Community

    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 […]