CMS QIN-QIO

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Minimizing Potential Exposures (Live Replay)
2023-03-22 15:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | 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.

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Transmission Based Precautions
2023-04-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Week 1:Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 15: CDC’s Core IP Practices – Transmission Based Precautions

Description: Live Recording

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Transmission Based Precautions (Live Replay)
2023-04-05 15:30 - 16:30 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 15: CDC’s Core IP Practices – Transmission Based Precautions – Live Replay

Description: Live Replay

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Transmission Based Precautions- IP3
2023-04-06 11:00 - 11:30 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 15: CDC’s Core IP Practices – Transmission Based Precautions – 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- Temporary Invasive Medical Devices for Clinical Management
2023-04-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 16: CDC’s Core IP Practices – Temporary Invasive Medical Devices for Clinical Management

Description: Live Recording

Partnering Beyond COVID-19: Management of Patients with Chronic Conditions: Diabetes
2023-04-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Session Topic: Management of Patients with Chronic Conditions: Diabetes
Description:
37 million adults live with diabetes in the United States, and it is the seventh leading cause of death.
Join us to learn more about Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES). DSME provides an evidence-based foundation to empower people with diabetes to navigate self-management decisions and activities.

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Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Temporary Invasive Medical Devices for Clinical Management (Live Replay)
2023-04-12 15:30 - 16:30 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 16: CDC’s Core IP Practices – Temporary Invasive Medical Devices for Clinical Management – Live Replay

Description: Live Replay

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Temporary Invasive Medical Devices for Clinical Management- IP3
2023-04-13 11:00 - 11:30 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 16: CDC’s Core IP Practices – Temporary Invasive Medical Devices for Clinical Management – 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.

Rhode Island Tobacco Cessation: Motivational Interviewing – To Quit and Stay Quit
2023-04-13 13:00 - 13:30 | Online via Zoom
Description:
In 2018, 55.1% of adult smokers (21.5 million) said that they had made a quit attempt in the past year. As a healthcare provider you can support their efforts.
Join us as Angela Butler from RI Better Breathers review key strategies to support your patient’s efforts to kicking the habit! In this interactive session, you’ll learn about the 5 A’s and motivational interviewing techniques.
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Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Occupational Health
2023-04-18 12:00 - 12:30 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 17: CDC’s Core IP Practices – Occupational Health

Description: Live Recording

TAP: A Strategy to Prioritize and Implement HAI Prevention Efforts in Your Hospital
2023-04-18 15:00 - 16:00 | Online via WebEx
Join us for a webinar featuring subject matter experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to learn about a comprehensive strategy to reduce hospital acquired infections (HAI). The Targeted Assessment for Prevention (TAP) Strategy is a CDC-developed framework for quality improvement that uses data to drive interventions that will prevent healthcare-associated infections.
The TAP strategy targets healthcare facilities and specific units within facilities that have a disproportionate burden of HAIs so that prevention efforts can be prioritized and implemented where they will have the greatest impact. Our speakers will discuss the latest updates in the strategy and tools, including adaptation for smaller facilities.
Your participation in this webinar will provide you with updated information on:

How to use NHSN collected data to identify opportunities for improvement by facility and unit.
How to calculate a cumulative attributable difference (CAD)* to identify a concrete infection reduction goal
How to use CDC assessments to target the focus of improvement work and identify high value interventions.

*The number of infections that must be prevented to achieve an HAI reduction goal.
Who should attend:

Clinical staff
Infection control practitioners
Pharmacists
Quality improvement staff

Speakers:
Katie White, MPH, CIC
Epidemiologist Division of Healthcare Quality | Promotion Prevention and Response Branch
Centers for Disease Contol and Prevention
Ronda Cochran, MPH
Deputy Team Lead Hospital Infection Prevention Team
Prevention and Response Branch Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Rachel Snyder, MPH
Scientific Data Analyst Chenega Enterprise Systems and Solutions (chESS)
Prevention and Response Branch Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Occupational Health (Live Replay)
2023-04-19 15:30 - 16:30 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 17: CDC’s Core IP Practices – Occupational Health – Live Replay

Description: Live Replay

Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges- Occupational Health- IP3
2023-04-20 11:00 - 11:30 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters & Beyond: Addressing Key Challenges Week 17: CDC’s Core IP Practices – Occupational Health – 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.

Your Worst Day: When Things Get Real!
2023-04-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Description: In this real-world presentation, healthcare providers who have firsthand experience with emergency events will share their stories and insights to aid listeners in their own emergency planning
In this session participants will:

Identify key components of emergency plans.
Recognize, in comparison to the stories shared, if their emergency plans and staff are prepared for a real event.
Apply actions and insights prompting review of their own EPPs.

Tracy Pate,
Public Health Emergency Preparedness Specialist

Stacey Radcliffe, LNHA
Larkin Chase, MD

Rhode Island Tobacco Cessation: Rhode Island QuitWorks Process
2023-04-20 13:00 - 13:30 | Online via Zoom
Description:
Providing support is essential. Join us for this interactive session with Julia Doherty of the Rhode Island Department of Health.
During this session, Julia will review options and the referral process for RI QuitWorks. She’ll address questions you may have.

IPRO HQIC Sepsis Affinity Group: Mid-to-large sized Hospitals
2023-04-20 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!

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Boosters and Beyond: Holistic Dementia Care & Antipsychotic Drug Reduction: Defining the Challenge – Managing Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia
2023-04-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters and Beyond: Holistic Dementia Care & Antipsychotic Drug Reduction: Defining the Challenge – Managing Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia
Description: This introductory session will define the challenges that nursing home face when managing residents’ behavioral symptoms and expressions of dementia. In this session, we will:

Present data on rates of dementia in correlation with antipsychotic use.
Define the risks of antipsychotic medication use for dementia patients.
Briefly introduce non-pharmacological strategies to mitigate disruptive and aggressive behaviors of residents with moderately advanced dementia.

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Partnering Beyond COVID-19: Learning Circle: Diabetes/Kidney Health
2023-04-26 12:00 - 12:30 | Online via Zoom
Session Topic: Learning Circle: Diabetes/Kidney 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.

Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Learning Circle Session II
2023-04-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via WebEx
Did You Know?

UTIs are second most frequent infection in NH facilities
Prevalence of UTIs range from 0.6 to 21.8%
UTI treatment represents 30-50% of antibiotic use in NH facilities

What is a Learning Circle?
A Learning Circle is a forum for education and sharing of knowledge so that all participants may benefit from the wisdom and experience of the group. In the IPRO QIN-QIO UTI Learning Circle, we will:

Share antibiogram data and discuss use of the data to improve care
Pose questions to Subject Matter Experts on UTI stewardship
Utilize a template action plan to assess UTI management and evaluate quality improvement outcome measures

Session 2
April 26, 2023
12-1pm EST (11-12 pm CST)
Local Practices and Current Topics

Boosters and Beyond: Holistic Dementia Care & Antipsychotic Drug Reduction: Defining the Challenge – Managing Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia (Live Replay)
2023-04-26 15:30 - 16:30 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters and Beyond: Holistic Dementia Care & Antipsychotic Drug Reduction: Defining the Challenge – Managing Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia (Live Replay)
Description: Live Replay

Harm Reduction: Making a Difference through Implementation in Practice
2023-04-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Online via Zoom
Join us to learn about promising practices from Berkshire Health, Vermont CARES and the NH Harm Reduction program. We welcome you to share about your efforts too!
Upon attending this session, participants will be able to:
1. Define and understand the practice and key principles of harm reduction.
2. Implement key strategies of harm reduction in your policies and practice.
3. Increase knowledge of harm reduction tools and resources to better support your patients and community.
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Boosters and Beyond: Holistic Dementia Care & Antipsychotic Drug Reduction: Defining the Challenge – Managing Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia (IP3)
2023-04-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Online via Zoom
Topic: Boosters and Beyond: Holistic Dementia Care & Antipsychotic Drug Reduction: Defining the Challenge – Managing Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia (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 IPs.

Your Worst Day: You Don't Know What You Don't Know
2023-04-27 12:00 - 13:00 | 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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