When there’s a change in resident’s condition, this guide helps understand options.
Go to the Hospital or Stay Here? Using the Decision Guide to Reduce Hospitalization & ER Visits
During this keynote presentation, Dr. Ruth M. Tappen, EdD, RN, FAAN describes how to use a resident and family decision aid regarding transitions to acute care settings.
Slides from Dr. Tappen’s presentation can be found here. https://qi.ipro.org/wp-content/uploads/4_New-Day-Keynote2_Dec2021_Tappen_508-1.pdf
Grief During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Considerations for Palliative Care Providers
Describes the relationship of the COVID-19 pandemic to anticipatory grief, disenfranchised grief, and complicated grief for individuals, families, and their providers.
Guide to Reducing Disparities in Readmissions
Get an overview of key issues related to readmissions for racially and ethnically diverse Medicare beneficiaries, as well as useful resources for hospital leaders to take action to address readmission.
Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure (HF)
Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure (HF)
American College of Cardiology, 2021 European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
Hand Hygiene Pre and Post Test Assessment
The Hand Hygiene Pre and Post Test Assessment provides a resource to document staff learning for this essential infection prevention activity. The test questions are based on the CDC “Show me the Science” web site. A separate document is provided with answers/explanations for the pre and post test questions.
Link to downloadable Hand Hygiene Pre-Test https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c5X3TLw5afmWUXnsynHZ29gAcvyrUCqG/view?usp=share_link
Link to downloadable Hand Hygiene Post-Test https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QVo3-oR_0jrQNp_Tv805jkBEBrG1nsj8/view?usp=share_link
Harm Reduction Learning Institute
The Harm Reduction Learning Institute offers providers, community leaders, and other harm reductionists free education and training covering key topics from naloxone administration and overdose response to stigma reduction and community outreach.
Health Equity Considerations: HQIC All-Cause Harm Prevention Model & Resource Tool
This resource provides information and resources for advancing health equity in the seven patient safety priority focus areas for hospitals.
Health Equity Monthly Newsletters
Monthly newsletters with the latest health equity news, events, and tools to support your efforts in eliminating health care disparities within your health system and communities.
Health Equity Organizational Assessment (HEOA) Affinity Group
This document contains all the resources (and links were applicable) that were discussed in the six affinity group sessions.
Session 1: Kick-Off and HEOA Baseline
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dChpKDqKFk8d0bJqjzgt-NOosJr48Rti/view?usp=share_link
Session 2: Organizational Data Collection Processes
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZlS5lKHf3TC7HSMGStJ2pwnP-3U35ekH/view?usp=share_link
Session 3: Piloting Change
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zT1oL_7KAYqqkd8uPJfMQOEVRzSgMhaG/view?usp=share_link
Session 4: Challenges and Strategies for Advancing the HEOA Pilot Projects
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SZcrRlCIH9rwQ4Y1mHRH3cOxgVrNA62C/view?usp=share_link
Session 5: Monitoring and Evaluating Progress
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DmIk7wgnV_zmuMLE1I7U_SuQEy_HDYRL/view?usp=share_link
Session 6: Sustain and Spread
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BLTVBm90ICv2XJQDeZVCuzuU3CtTLQQh/view?usp=share_link
Health Equity Organizational Assessment (HEOA) Resources
These resources supplement the HEOA and can help organizations committed to collecting, validating, stratifying and analyzing accurate patient demographic data identify and address health disparities.
HEOA Executive Summary: This resource, targeted to executive leaders in healthcare organizations, outlines the benefits of completing the HEOA from a C-Suite perspective.
Health Equity Roadmap: This roadmap is a step-by-step guide for implementing the key elements of health equity for organizations committed to a culture of equity.
Best Practices Strategies for Organization Health Equity: This resource outlines strategies and corresponding tasks and resources for each of the seven HEOA categories to assist organizations to address opportunities for improvement based on their HEOA assessment report.
HEOA Assessment FAQs: This resource has frequently asked questions and responses about the Health Equity Organizational Assessment (HEOA).
REaL Data Collection Toolbox: This Learning Toolbox focuses on healthcare facilities collecting data on race, ethnicity, and language preference (REaL) as an important component of the provision of equity in the healthcare setting. It includes a quick primer on data collection, and provides links to articles, tools, and resources to educate providers on the importance of knowing the diverse patient population for which they provide care.
Collecting REaL Data – Examples of How to Ask for REaL Data: This Resource Guide provides examples on how best to collect race, ethnicity, and language (REaL) data and ensure that it is being collected consistently and accurately.
Health Equity Resource Series
These toolkits highlight four compelling strategies to prioritize health equity. These foundational pillars include:
– Data collection, validation, stratification and application of patient information to address disparate outcomes
– Cultural competency and implicit bias training and education
– Diversity and inclusion in leadership and governance roles
– Sustainable community partnerships focused on improving equity
Health Equity Roadmap
This roadmap is a step-by-step guide for implementing the key elements of health equity for organizations committed to a culture of equity.
Health Literacy Toolbox
This Learning Toolbox focuses on health literacy as an important determinant of health equity and outcomes. It includes a quick primer on health literacy, and provides links to articles, tools, and resources to improve the health literacy of organizations and patients.
Healthy Eating Tips : PROTECT AGAINST CHRONIC DISEASES
This community and patient-facing resource reinforces how following healthy eating tips can help prevent and manage chronic disease.