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Nursing Home Readmission Affinity Group Session 5: Engaging the Interdisciplinary Team
SUMMARY: Participants will learn how a facility integrated its interdisciplinary team into patient education on the CHF Zone Tool to improve patients’ self-management of their health and wellness and reduce avoidable ED visits and hospitalizations. In addition, we will discuss how communication and collaboration among the interdisciplinary team positively impact the discharge planning process. IN […]
Toolkit: Increasing Vaccination Rates in Nursing Homes
As a health care professional, you play a vital role in protecting patients and their families. The best protection for reducing the risk of serious illness, hospitalizations, long-term health impacts, and death are vaccinations. This toolkit provides resources, guidance, and samples for promoting and encouraging acceptance of vaccinations in your facility.
Sepsis Gap Analysis Tool for Nursing Facilities
This sepsis gap analysis tool can help facilities assess the difference between actual practice and expected performance of sepsis prevention and management practices (i.e., facility policies and procedures, regulations, or practice guidelines). This tool can support nursing facility sepsis initiatives by identifying targeted areas for improvement.
Home Health Care Reducing Readmissions Toolkit
This toolkit is to improve patient’s understanding of what Home Health Care offers, as well as providers knowledge of readmission risks to mitigate potential risk factors that may lead to readmission.
Super-Utilizer Coaching Package: What’s in Your Toolkit?
Use this package as a framework to develop super-utilizer reduction strategies and best practices and to support new AHS QA team members by highlighting what’s in the super-utilizer toolkit.