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How to Access the Nursing Home Care Compare Five-Star Preview Report
This tip sheet will help users navigate the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES) provider's portal to locate the Five-Star Preview...
The Core Elements for Antibiotic Stewardship in Action Change Pathway
The change pathway tool is a topic-specific, step-by-step guide to quality improvement. The change pathway is created using evidence-based practice resources and guidelines. Key quality improvement...
Give Your Nursing Home a Boost! How to Write a Strong SMART-IE Goal
Give Your Nursing Home a Boost! is an ongoing series that will focus on a new topic each week and include information, tools and tips to increase vaccination rates. You will hear from other nursing...
Sepsis Data Sharing Checklist
Use this checklist while preparing to share data at your quality improvement committee meetings, board meetings or during other opportunities to communicate about data. The aim of this checklist is...
Infection Preventionist Orientation Checklist
This tool, designed primarily for new infection preventionists (IPs), provides a comprehensive overview of key areas that all IPs should be familiar with upon entering the field. This list can be...
HQIC Vaccination Toolkit
This toolkit was developed to assist hospitals and healthcare organizations with routine vaccination assessment for influenza, pneumonia, COVID-19 and RSV in an effort to vaccinate more adults...
Hand Washing Reminder Signage
Six Steps for Hand Washing: Washing your hands is easy, and it’s one of the most effective ways to prevent the spread of germs. Clean hands can help stop germs from spreading from one person to...
A Project ECHO® Series: Anticoagulants in Long-Term Care Resources
This resource contains the recordings and supplemental materials for the Long-Term Care Medication Management of Blood Thinners and Anticoagulant Use in Long-Term Care: What Prescribers and...
Ensuring Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) Treatment through the Care Continuum Webinar Series
More than 1 million Medicare beneficiaries had a diagnosis of opioid use disorder (OUD) in 2020. However, fewer than 1 in 5 Medicare beneficiaries with an opioid use disorder diagnosis received...
Nursing Home COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Rounding Tool
Telligen’s COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Rounding Tool is used as a resource for observational audits. The information and questions provided are based on best practices for infection...