Partnership for Community Health
CLAS Assessment Form
CLAS is defined as services that are respectful of and responsive to individual cultural health beliefs, and practices, preferred languages, health literacy levels and communication needs. The CLAS standards provide a guideline with actions steps and strategies to address and eliminate health care disparities. Adopting these standards will help advance better health and health care in the U.S.
The purpose of this assessment is to help your organization evaluate its current status as it relates to CLAS.
Care Coordination
- Convene community coalitions
- Reduce avoidable readmissions, admissions to hospitals and preventable emergency department visits
- Identify and promote optimal care for super utilizers
Chronic Disease Self-Management
- Increase instances of adequately diagnosed and controlled hypertension.
- Increase use of cardiac rehabilitation programs.
- Reduce instances of uncontrolled diabetes
- Identify patients at high risk for kidney disease and improve outcomes
COVID-19
- Support nursing homes by establishing a safe visitor policy and cohort plan
- Provide virtual events to support infection control and prevention
- Support nursing homes and community coalitions with emergency preparedness plans
Emergency Preparedness
- Essential aspect of ensuring the safety and well-being of individuals during times of crisis
Immunization
- Increase influenza, pneumococcal and COVID-19 vaccination rates
Opioid Utilization and Misuse
- Promote opioid best practices
- Reduce opioid adverse drug events in all settings
- Stigma
General Resources
Alliant Essential Communications Elements Toolkit
This tool is improvement of cross-setting management of high risk medications (opioids, anticoagulants, and diabetes medications) during transitions of care to prevent adverse drug events and subsequently reduce emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and readmissions.
Medicine Reconciliation Data Collection Tool
Medicine Reconciliation Data Collection Tool
DDHH Coronavirus Cards - English
Materials for deaf & hard of hearing community about coronavirus
Partnership for Community Health Resources
Upcoming Events
Nursing Home Patient Safety Series: Reducing Facility-Associated Infections and Hospitalizations Related to UTIs
October 18, 2023, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. ETSUMMARY: This healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevention webinar will discuss interventions to reduce urinary tract infections (UTIs) in nursing facilities. The session will specifically discuss evidence-based clinical and infection prevention strategies to prevent UTIs in residents. This session will also provide resources to improve multidisciplinary collaboration between the infection preventionist, nursing staff, clinicians, and medical directors. […]
Nursing Home Readmission Affinity Group: Creating Interdisciplinary Programs to Reduce Avoidable Readmissions
October 10, 2023, 2pm ET | 1pm CTDr. Swati Gaur, MD, MBA, CMD, AGSF, medical director of New Horizons Nursing Facilities, shares her skilled nursing facility’s experience with their Patient at Risk (PAR) program and how it impacted avoidable readmissions and ED visits. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1. Identify resident care processes that contribute to readmissions. 2. Create a PAR program to address priority […]
December 2023 Shop Talk
December 21, 2023, 2pm ET | 1pm CTShop Talk is a monthly webinar series hosted by Alliant Health Solutions. You will be provided with information, resources, updates and support for surveillance, tracking and infection prevention in nursing homes using National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN). ANCC and NAB credit is available for these sessions!