Welcome to the January Issue of
HIIN The Know
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HIIN The Know
is your monthly guide to important HIIN resources. Here, you can quickly access information on improvement tools, resources, data, upcoming learning events, best practices, and success stories.
Each issue will focus on a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) priority topic to expand national progress toward better patient care and reduce preventable patient harm.
This month,
HIIN The Know
focuses on antibiotic stewardship, which is a factor in addressing the spread of healthcare-associated infections. Antibiotic stewardship is defined as promoting appropriate antibiotic selection in order to improve clinical outcomes, reduce antibiotic resistance, and lower unnecessary costs. As part of the HIIN, your hospital has access to no-cost antibiotic stewardship resources.
Our experienced staff of advisors, infection preventionists, and our pharmacist can offer one-on-one coaching and antibiotic stewardship program gap analysis. Please reach out to your Clinical Improvement Advisor to receive your personalized,
no-cost assistance.
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HIIN The Know
? Your feedback is important to us.
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Improvement Tools & Resources
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HSAG HIIN Antibiotic Stewardship Field Guide
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NQF Partners Playbook: Antibiotic Stewardship in
Acute Care
This National Quality Forum (NQF) initiative promotes appropriate antibiotic use and provides opportunities to address complex problems that encourage collaboration, learning, and action to implement high-quality antibiotic stewardship programs.
Click here to view the NQF Playbook.
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CDC Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs
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CDC Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs Checklist
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Joint Commission Antimicrobial Stewardship Standard 2017
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California Senate Bill 1311, 1288.85
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The Data Advantage Corner
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Coming Soon—HIIN Comparison Dashboard
Do you want to know how your hospital is performing relative to other hospitals in the HSAG HIIN? Soon you can! The interactive HIIN Comparison Dashboard allows your hospital to select from a list of specific measures to display a comparison of your hospital to three aggregate
peer groups (all HSAG HIIN hospitals, a hospital characteristics peer group, and a regional peer group) and provides your hospital’s progress toward the improvement goal in comparison to the peer groups.
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Coming Soon—Hospital Readmission Reports
To continue monitoring progress on readmissions, the HSAG HIIN will be disseminating another Readmission Feedback Report in February. The Readmission Feedback Report will provide a summary of your hospital’s Medicare Fee-for-Service readmission data through Q3 2017 and provide overall and stratified readmission rates, allowing your hospital to identify key areas of focus and improvement.
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Upcoming Events and Education
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Critical Access and Rural Hospital Affinity Group
Thursday, January 11, 2018
12 Noon to 1 p.m. PT
Join us for the second virtual meeting of the HSAG HIIN critical access and rural hospital affinity group. This session will feature a focus on patient and family engagement (PFE) in the rural and critical access setting.
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PFE Think Tank
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
12 Noon to 1 p.m. PT
Think Tanks are monthly virtual meetings to advance best practices for PFE. These events feature peer learning and expert technical assistance relevant to meeting CMS
PFE Metrics
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with specific topics identified by participating HSAG HIIN hospitals.
In this session, we will discuss strategies for effective recruitment of Patient Family Advisors. Please join us to share your experiences and ask questions about the recruitment of patient and family members to serve on advisory councils or improvement committees/teams.
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Reduction in CAUTI Rates: Follow-up Coaching Call for November 30, 2017, Webinar Participants
Thursday, January 25, 2018
12 Noon to 1 p.m. PT
After the November 30, 2017, webinar on strategies for reduction in catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), Dr. Sanjay Saint returns to answer questions from attendees of the November 30 event and provide real-time, personalized coaching on strategies for success. This event is open to all HSAG HIIN hospitals.
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Eliminating Healthcare Disparities Series: Session 3
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
10 to 11 a.m. PT
#1 Step in Addressing Disparities: Collecting Self-Reported Data on Race, Ethnicity, and Language (REAL)
The
Eliminating Disparities Webinar Series,
produced in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital’s Disparities Solutions Center, is designed to help HSAG HIIN hospitals boost their capacity to address disparities in health and care. Disparity reduction is integral to efforts in quality and patient safety, and a CMS high priority for HIIN hospitals.
This webinar will focus on reliable capture of patients’ REAL data as a prerequisite for understanding and reducing disparities.
Learning objectives:
- Understand the importance of collecting self-reported REAL data from patients and the minimum collection standards.
- Identify common challenges and pitfalls in REAL data collection.
- Understand practical strategies and tips for improving REAL data collection.
Continuing Education (CE):
Health Services Advisory Group, Inc. is the CE provider for this event. Provider approved by the Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 16578, for 1 contact hour for each event. Pending approval. There is no charge for attendance of this event.
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Tell us about a best practice or noteworthy story you would like to share with the HSAG HIIN community. What you do makes a difference, so please share!
Update Your Hospital's NHSN Consent with Release of NHSN 8.8.1
On the January 23 release of NHSN 8.8.1, all hospitals that have enrolled in NHSN prior to December 2, 2017, should agree to the newly updated consent form for each component. Failure to do this by April 14, 2018, will put the hospital at risk of losing access to NHSN. Per NHSN, once the consent form is available on January 23, an alert will appear on all NHSN component home pages and primary contacts and facility administrators will receive an email notification. Please direct any questions to
[email protected]
with the subject line "NHSN Reconsent."
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HSAG in Partnership With HQI
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