KHC Newsletter

June 2023

2023 KHC Summit on Quality

The Summit on Quality is an educational event drawing health care leaders from across Kansas. Now in its 14th year, Summit programming is designed to engage and connect a wide range of health care professionals — including physicians (particularly residents), nurses, clinic managers, hospital CEOs and other senior management, quality improvement professionals, risk managers, infection preventionists, long-term care providers, and other interested health care professionals — practicing in both urban and rural settings throughout our state.

For more information, including the full event brochure, session objectives, speaker bios and venue information, visit our website.

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Nearby Attractions

Back to School Posters Available for Download

KHC has partnered with KHA and KDHE to encourage parents to seek childhood immunizations and wellness visits this summer, before the Back to School rush. Use these printable PDF Posters in your community to encourage families to beat the rush to get school physicals, sports physicals, immunizations, dental visits, eye exams as well as all the other tasks that go along with getting the kids ready to start school in August.

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KHC Office Hours for Clinics

June 28th, 10:00 a.m.

Improving Cardiac Outcomes with Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs

Register for the 2023 Antimicrobial Stewardship Series

Syndromic Antimicrobial Stewardship:

Focused Initiatives Targeting Common Infections & Disease Scenarios

12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Session #4 Sepsis 7/12/23

Session #5 Shorter Courses and Profylactic Use 8/2/23

If you missed the first two sessions in the series, you can find the recordings and handouts in our Education Archive.

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Genesis Family Health Sews the Seeds of Health, One Stitch at a Time

At the start of the new year in 2023 Genesis Family Health looked at the issues facing their community and wanted to find ways to use community outreach to engage their expectant mothers in health education. Their Care Team came up with the idea to gather maternity patients together to create baby gifts or to make items needed for their new babies and wanted to use those gatherings to share health education with expectant mothers.

June Compass HQIC Update

Data Reminder

May 2023 data is due by July 15, 2023.

Recent Wins

Let’s celebrate the hard work of Kansas hospitals. As a state, the NHSN-CAUTI Rate-ICU+ Other Units measure improved by 1.943% from April to May and the ADE-Hospital Acquired Hypoglycemic measure improved by 4.392% from April to May. Thank you for your hard work and continue to report your data so we can show the improvements being made by Kansas hospitals.

NRHA Recognizes Three Kansas HQIC Hospitals as Top CAHs in the Country

The National Rural Health Association recognizes the Top 20 Critical Access Hospitals from a list of the Top 100 CAHs as determined by The Chartis Center for Rural Health. The 20 overall winners and 40 best practice recipients (in the quality and patient satisfaction categories) have achieved success based on the the Chartis Rural Hospital Performance INDEX™. The top 20 critical access hospitals in the country (in all categories) are honored annually on the final day of NRHA's Critical Access Hospital Conference. Of the 12 Compass HQIC Hospitals recorgnized, three were from Kansas.

2023 Top 20 CAH Winner

Fredonia Regional Hospital, Fedonia, KS

2023 Top 20 CAH Best Practice in Quality Recipient

Coffey County Hospital, Burlington, KS

2023 Top 20 CAH Best Practice in Patient Satisfaction Recipient

Hodgeman County Health Center, Jetmore, KS

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KHC has partnered with Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and KFMC Health Improvement Partners to facilitate this in person infection prevention education for frontline staff (nurse aide, dietary, housekeeping, laundry, maintenance, nursing, administration) in Kansas hospitals, long term care and communal living facilities throughout the state of Kansas.

Tuesday, July 18: Wichita, Kansas

Thursday, July 20: Pittsburg, Kansas

Tuesday, July 25: Hays, Kansas

Thursday, July 27: Topeka, Kansas

Tuesday, August 1: Garden City, Kansas

Thursday, August 3: Salina, Kansas

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Vytalize Health is an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) with a network of providers who work together to coordinate care for patients. Vytalize’s Medicare ACO model supports Primary Care Providers by paying monthly bonuses for participating in value-based activities, Shared Savings for the year overall, and an ability to earn a PMPM for the Vytal Steps Early Start program throughout 2023. To learn more about the Vytalize model, please set up an appointment with Senior Director of ACO Partnerships at Vytalize Health, Livia Istrate.

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http://www.vytalizehealth.com/

In Case You Missed It

Children's Mental Health Funding Opportunity

Deadline 7/14/23

Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children's Mental Health Innovation Awards

(5) Awards of up to $100K

Deadline to Apply 7/14/23

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2022 MIPS Final Score Preview is Now Available

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has opened the Final Score Preview period for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Authorized representatives of practices, virtual groups, and Alternative Payment Model (APM) Entities can now sign into the Quality Payment Program (QPP) website to preview 2022 MIPS final scores.

qpp,cms.gov

CMS to Host June 27th Making Care Primary Model Overview Webinar

CMS will host a webinar on June 27, 2023 to provide an overview of the Making Care Primary (MCP) Model. During the session, the MCP team will discuss the goals of the Model in addition to eligibility, participant types, care delivery requirements, performance assessment, and payment structure. The forum will also provide guidance on the application process, timeline, and resources available.

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