May 18, 2023

Opioid Use Assessment

Addressing the opioid crisis has been an ongoing CMS priority across the QIO Program to decrease inappropriate prescribing, reduce adverse opioid-related events and implement best practices to treat opioid use disorder. Tell us what tools and resources would be useful to you to help your partners prevent and treat opioid use disorder and adverse events?

Please complete this brief assessment by Thursday, May 25 to share your thoughts.

CMS Hosts 2023 Quality Conference Focusing on Solutions to Address America’s Health System Challenges

The 2023 CMS Quality Conference held May 1-3, convened leaders across the health care spectrum to explore how patients, advocates, providers, researchers, and champions in health care quality improvement can develop and spread solutions to address America’s most pervasive health system challenges. During the virtual conference, which attracted 10,000 attendees, CMS released a National Quality Strategy (NQS) handout, which outlines the goals and objectives, and actions taken within the NQS’s four priority areas: equity and engagement; outcomes and alignment; safety and resiliency, and interoperability and scientific advancement.

HQIC Community of Practice Call

June 8, 2023 | 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET

Reducing Hospital Onset C. Difficile Through Diagnostic Stewardship

Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) bacteria can cause life-threatening diarrhea and is one of the most common healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in the United States. There were more than 223,000 estimated cases in hospitalized patients in 2017 resulting in more than 12,000 deaths at an estimated attributed health care cost of $1 billion. This session explores diagnostic stewardship opportunities to reduce Hospital Onset (HO)-CDI through the lens of the UVA Health experiences including tools, outcomes and lessons learned.

Join us for this presentation to hear the importance of culture set by institutional leadership to generate and sustain engagement, the integral role of nurses in testing decisions, IT support needed to build a dashboard, track data and develop EMR changes, and a case review in partnership with the frontline staff and its importance in understanding current state and plan next steps. The work to mitigate HO-CDI is time intensive but important and effective.

This material was prepared by The Bizzell Group (Bizzell), the Data Validation and Administrative (DVA) contractor, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Views expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the official views or policy of CMS or HHS, and any reference to a specific product or entity herein does not constitute endorsement of that product or entity by CMS or HHS. 12SOW/Bizzell/DVA-1072-05/15/23

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