IPRO QIN-QIO Resource Library

The COVID-19 pandemic is a healthcare crisis that has led to unprecedented impact on healthcare services. At the heart of the unparalleled crisis, doctors face several challenges in treating patients with COVID-19. The psychological burden and overall wellness of healthcare workers (HCWs) have received heightened awareness, with research continuing to show high rates of burnout, psychological stress, and suicide. Detrimental effects include high rates of infection and death, excessive financial hardships, stress related to known and particularly unknown information, and fear of uncertainty regarding continued impact. Some researchers focused specifically on COVID-19’s impact on HCW sleep. Anxiety and stress were significantly increased, leading to negative impacts on both self-efficacy and sleep. Stress is an important factor in drug use. Efforts should be made to explore the factors that are associated with psychological distress, which may lead to symptoms of anxiety, depression, or provoke suicidal ideation, and efforts should be made to control the factors that are modifiable. There needs to be more awareness among doctors and further long-term studies focusing on their mental health as adverse mental health conditions will further affect them as the disease advances.

A Train the Trainer Guide: Early initiation of discharge care planning, involving the patient and/or appropriate caregiver(s), along with collaboration with community supports, can lead to better transitions to the community and reduce readmissions.

There are several resources and tools available that can
be implemented to improve care transitions (or care
coordination) between settings and reduce potentially
avoidable hospital utilization.

The purpose of this guide is to share some evidence-based interventions,
best practices and other supportive materials, in one
location.

This 1-hour online course is designed to provide education for health care providers and staff who are responsible for collecting Medicare patient data from LGBTQ persons. Throughout this course, these providers will be called health care providers. (Requires free registration with MLN)

Resource and tools to enhance nursing home discharge processes for those residents with goal of returning to the community. Emphasizes coordination with Area Agencies on Aging, identifying and including appropriate caregivers, and use of follow up phone calls to reduce risk of readmission and enhance patient satisfaction.

Updated patient education flyer on the importance of the influenza vaccine.

Quick fact sheet on Influenza vaccine

This resource is a compilation of five resources to help hospitals screen for and address the five CMS social drivers of health required for the Inpatient Quality Reporting Program.

This one page sheet shows you how to measure your blood pressure properly. (Spanish)

COVID-19 changed our world, impacting both our physical and mental health. Healthcare professionals are continuing to incorporate safety protocols to help identify COVID-19 cases and protect against spread.

But what is being done to help identify mental health conditions?

Join the IPRO QIN-QIO for an educational program to help primary care offices integrate behavioral health (BH) services (including anxiety and depression screenings) into everyday practice.

This series covered:

• Building a business case for integrating and partnering with a BH organization.
• Successful integration of BH into primary care.
• Best practices for models of integration (collaboration with a BH organization, co-location of BH providers, and full integration of BH providers).

This toolkit provides steps your organization can take to integrate a social needs screening and referral process into its clinical workflow. These steps are general recommendations that an organization can consider and adapt for its specific needs. The recommendations are general by design, to ensure they are useful for the diverse organizations that will be using this toolkit and their unique patient populations, workflow, and available resources.

INTERACT (Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers) is a quality improvement program that focuses on the management of acute change in resident condition. It includes clinical and educational tools and strategies for use in everyday practice in long-term care centers.

INTERACT is designed to improve the early identification, assessment, documentation, and communication about changes in the status of residents. The goal of INTERACT is to improve care and reduce the frequency of potentially avoidable transfers to the acute hospital.

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