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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 […]
Nursing Home Patient Safety Series: HAI Affinity Group – Community-Acquired Pneumonia Update
SUMMARY: This session will review pertinent definitions and categorizations of pneumonia. We will also discuss updates to the guidelines and review an example case. TARGET AUDIENCE: Infection Preventionists (IP), Nursing Home leadership, Clinical leadership. IN THIS SERIES, ATTENDEES WILL LEARN: New knowledge and tools surrounding the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of facility associated infections including […]
Nursing Home Readmission Affinity Group Session 4: Managing Readmission Risk
SUMMARY: In this session, participants will learn how to use Alliant Health Solution’s Rehospitalization Risk Assessment Tool to identify patients’ risk factors for readmission. We will also review interventions and care planning for these risks. In addition, we will provide tips for implementation and discuss the impact of social determinants of health and implicit bias […]
Leveraging Technology to Support Safer Transitions of Care
SUMMARY: Post-hospital contact with a primary care team is an established pillar of safe transitions. The prevailing model of telephone outreach is usually limited in scope and operationally burdensome. In this session, Eric Bressman, MD, MSHP, Fellow, National Clinician Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania and Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center will share learnings […]
C. difficile Infection Reduction in Long Term Care: Session Five – Early Detection, Isolation and Recommendations for Testing
SUMMARY: Did you know more than 100,000 C. difficile infections developed among residents of U.S. nursing homes? Join us for the fifth in a series of six sessions to learn how to implement a plan to reduce the risk of C. difficile infections among residents at your nursing home. Throughout the series, we will provide […]
Patient Safety Series – Opioid ADEs in Nursing Homes – Pain Management in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting: Clinical Practice Guidelines Overview
SUMMARY: Dr. Levenson chaired the workgroup responsible for writing the guidelines. He will be highlighting the guideline’s important questions and steps while incorporating real life patient cases. Additionally, Dr. Levenson will incorporate information from the newly released 2022 CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines. THE LEARNER WILL BE ABLE TO: 1. Identify pain issues that arise in […]
Patient Safety Series – Opioid ADEs in Nursing Homes – Pain Management in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting: Clinical Practice Guidelines Overview
SUMMARY: Dr. Levenson chaired the workgroup responsible for writing the guidelines. He will be highlighting the guideline’s important questions and steps while incorporating real life patient cases. Additionally, Dr. Levenson will incorporate information from the newly released 2022 CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines. THE LEARNER WILL BE ABLE TO: 1. Identify pain issues that arise in […]
Patient Safety Series – Opioid ADEs in Nursing Homes – Pain Management in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting: Clinical Practice Guidelines Overview
SUMMARY: Dr. Levenson chaired the workgroup responsible for writing the guidelines. He will be highlighting the guideline’s important questions and steps while incorporating real life patient cases. Additionally, Dr. Levenson will incorporate information from the newly released 2022 CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines. THE LEARNER WILL BE ABLE TO: 1. Identify pain issues that arise in […]
Nursing Home Patient Safety Series: Reducing facility-associated infections and hospitalizations related to UTI, Sepsis, Pneumonia and COVID-19
SUMMARY: This session will discuss the burden of pneumonia in nursing home facilities, steps to prevent pneumonia in nursing home residents, and infection prevention and control tools for pneumonia surveillance. TARGET AUDIENCE: Infection Preventionists (IP), Nursing Home leadership, Clinical leadership. IN THIS SERIES, ATTENDEES WILL LEARN: New knowledge and tools surrounding the diagnosis, treatment, and […]
C. difficile Infection Reduction in Long Term Care: Session Four – Surveillance, Data Tracking, and Reporting
SUMMARY: Did you know more than 100,000 C. difficile infections developed among residents of U.S. nursing homes? Join us for the fourth in a series of six sessions to learn how to implement a plan to reduce the risk of C. difficile infections among residents at your nursing home. Throughout the series, we will provide […]