brought to you by the Home Health Quality Improvement National Campaign (HHQI)
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HHQI's
online resource library
has literally hundreds of free resources that home health agencies can use for staff and patient education. The volume of resources can be overwhelming, and we want to make it easy for you to find our most popular tools. So each month, we'll highlight a favorite resource from an HHQI team member or a campaign participant.
Health literacy is an issue for 88% of U.S. adults, and it's even more prevalent among those 65 and older. In observance of Health Literacy Month,
HHQI RN Project Coordinator Misty Kevech
shares one of her favorite HHQI tools that helps patients—like her father—keep track of important health information.
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My Personal Health Record
is a paper-based, patient-friendly tool that can be used to keep all important patient information such as providers, diagnoses, surgeries, medications, etc. It's a 6-page tool that can be printed double-sided and folded in half to create a convenient booklet to take to medical appointments or to the hospital. (Also available in
Spanish
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I use this tool all the time with my father; we never go anywhere without it. It saves valuable time for providers and helps me remember dates of his surgeries.
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What's your favorite HHQI resource?
We love to hear how our resources have helped agencies, and you could help someone else in the HHQI community. We can give you credit or keep your recommendation anonymous. Please
email us
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Coming Soon
Immunization & Falls Prevention Updates
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The HHQI team is currently working to update the
Immunizations & Infection Prevention Best Practice Intervention Package
(BPIP) to include the vaccine recommendations for the 2018-19 influenza season from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP). This update will be available in
late-October 2018.
Our
Falls Prevention BPIP
is also being updated and will be posted in
November 2018
. In addition to the BPIP update, we're also developing a corresponding HHQI University course so you can earn free continuing education credits!
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HHQI has free resources to help you promote many of October's annual healthcare observances among your patients and staff. Visit the
October Featured Resources page
on the HHQI website.
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Celebrating the HHQI Agency of the Month!
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This month, HHQI recognizes
Omni Home Care
of Mandeville, Louisiana for their dedication to improving home health quality.
Home health agencies that are active in the HHQI National Campaign and closest to the national, risk-adjusted ACH 20th percentile and/or the national, risk-adjusted Oral Medication Improvement 80th percentile (or better) are eligible for random selection as HHQI Agency of the Month.
BE IN THE SPOTLIGHT.
Nominate your agency today!
If you are selected, your organization will be prominently featured here in HHQI Inside Edition — which reaches nearly 13,000 subscribers — and on the HHQI website. Your achievement will also be shared via HHQI's social media channels.
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October 18, 2018 | 2-3pm ET
Promoting Medication Adherence among Older Adults at Home
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Many patients have medication adherence and other issues that relate to physical, cognitive, or health literacy impairments. Such issues can affect the management of their medical conditions. Occupational therapists are taught evidence-based management interventions that help patients improve adherence and medication outcomes. This webinar is appropriate for leaders, nurses, therapists, and social workers who want to learn more about medication management strategies and the utilization of occupational therapists.
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After attending, you'll be able to:
- Identify two (2) medication management challenges for home health patients.
- Describe three (3) strategies to improve medication management and patient adherence.
- Explain two (2) ways to best utilize the skill set of occupational therapists for improving medication management.
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Dr. Martha Sanders
, PhD, MSOSH, OTR/L, CPE
Dr. Tracy VanOss
, MPH, OTR/L, SCEM, FAOTA
Professors of Occupational Therapy
School of Health Sciences, Quinipac University
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Earn Free Continuing Education Credits
This continuing education activity has been submitted to Alabama State Nurses Association for approval to award contact hours. Alabama State Nurses Association is an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC).
To receive continuing education (CE) credit, participants must watch the webinar and enroll in the corresponding course in HHQI University's
Underserved Populations catalog
to complete related coursework.
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Please visit the HHQI website to register and for the latest on CE status and webinar materials as soon as they are available.
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Want to be among the first to know details about upcoming webinars?
You don't have to wait for Inside Edition.
Subscribe to our mailing lists
to receive details as soon as they are available.
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Register Now | October 10 | 3-4:30pm ET
October Medication Safety LAN Event
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The Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Program will hold its next Medication Safety Learning and Action Network (LAN) Event on Wednesday, October 10, 2018, from 3:00 to 4:30 PM ET.
This free online training—
Exploring Pain Management Strategies: A Patient and Provider Panel on Treating Pain With and Without Opioids—
will help you:
- Identify factors that are important in deciding a pain management approach
- Explore different resources available to patients and providers for pain management
- Describe examples of effective pain management strategies for diverse patient populations and conditions
This event will feature a panel of patients living with pain, a pain management specialist, and a patient advocate who will explore different perspectives on pain management strategies. Topics will include approaches to non-opioid pain treatments, safe opioid use, and other strategies to promote best practices around safely and effectively managing pain.
Learn more or register now!
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Help Promote the Value of Cardiac Rehab
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Join the Million Hearts
®
Cardiac Rehab Collaborative (CRC) in raising awareness about the value of cardiac rehabilitation! The CRC includes more than 180 organizations representing CR professionals, clinicians and health care teams, hospital and health system administrators, CR participants and family members, technology innovators, and other stakeholders who are taking action to increase CR participation from 20% to 70% by 2022. One crucial CRC milestone is to reach more than 5 million individuals by 2019 with messages about the value of CR.
Your help is needed to reach this target.
Please select and send messages
from the
Million Hearts® Cardiac Rehabilitation Communications Toolkit
to your listservs, members, partners, and/or contacts and share how many people you reached with
[email protected]
. Adopt or adapt the ready-to-use key messages, downloadable educational materials, sample social media posts and newsletter announcements, syndicated content, and a variety of visuals in the toolkit or contact
[email protected]
for assistance in tailoring CR messages for your audiences.
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Register Now for Free Industry Events
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Medication Safety LAN Event:
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Host: Quality Innovation Network National Coordinating Center
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Host: Fairfield University & International Home Care Nurses Organization
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Host: Quality Innovation Network National Coordinating Center
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Host: Nestlé Nutrition Institute
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Host: Health Quality Innovators
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November 6 & 7
8:30 a.m. ET
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Host: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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Host: Quality Innovation Network National Coordinating Center
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Host: Quality Innovation Network National Coordinating Center
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Host: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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* Continuing education credit(s) included, available or pending.
Reference to any specific organization or its products or services is for information and convenience and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by Quality Insights, the Home Health Quality Improvement National Campaign, or the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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This material was prepared by Quality Insights, the Medicare Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization supporting the Home Health Quality Improvement National Campaign, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The views presented do not necessarily reflect CMS policy. Publication number 11SOW-WV-HH-MMD-100118
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