This resource has frequently asked questions and responses about the Health Equity Organizational Assessment (HEOA).
HEOA Executive Summary
This resource, targeted to executive leaders in healthcare organizations, outlines the benefits of completing the HEOA from a C-Suite perspective.
High-Risk Medications Essential Communication Elements Guide for Transitions of Care
The purpose of this guide is improvement of cross-setting management of high risk medications (opioids, anticoagulants, and diabetes medications) during transitions of care to prevent adverse drug events and subsequently reduce emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and readmissions.
How can the Essential Communication Elements tools be utilized?
• Provide the fundamental communication criteria necessary for the proper transition of care related to pain medications, anticoagulants, and diabetes medications.
• Evaluate your facility practices regarding communication of requisite medication‐related elements to subsequent providers.
• Identify opportunities for system improvements.
Hospital Commitment to Health Equity Submission Tool
This fillable PDF resource created by IPRO may be helpful for preparing for attestation of the CMS Hospital Commitment to Health Equity Measure.
Hospital Contact Information for Post Acute Providers
This fillable form allows a hospital to provide key contact information for receiving post-acute providers if they have questions concerning a recent patient transfer.
Hospital Readmission Risk Score Calculator
The HOSPITAL Score is a validated prediction tool to identify patients at a high risk of potentially avoidable hospital readmission. It is intended to allow hospitals to assign extra discharge & care transition services to those patients most likely to be readmitted.
Hospital/Post-Acute Provider Admission Readmission Case Review Form
This form is used to gather information and facilitate a discussion for process improvement measures to address readmissions that occur within 1-7 days or 2 or more readmissions within 30 days.
How Reliable Are Your Infection Prevention Processes? Presentation Recording (12/9/2021)
This short video presents a process to determine the reliability of a process using a simple tool to identify opportunity for improvement.
How Reliable Are Your Infection Prevention Processes? Presentation Slides (12/9/2021)
This short presentation highlights a process to determine the reliability of a process using a simple tool to identify opportunity for improvement.
How Reliable Are Your Infection Prevention Processes? QI Tool (12/9/2021)
This quality improvement tool describes a process to determine the reliability of a process and next steps to take when an opportunity for process improvement is identified.
How to Measure Your Blood Pressure
This one-page PDF sheet shows you how to measure your blood pressure properly.
ICD-10-CM Coding for Social Determinants of Health
This tool helps hospitals to capture data on the social needs of their patient population using ICD-10-CM codes included in categories Z55-Z65 (“Z codes”), which identify non-medical factors that may influence a patient’s health status.
Igniting Compassion
The Center for Health Affairs in Cleveland, Ohio released a 33-minute documentary called Igniting Compassion. Through the stories of doctors, nurses, people in recovery from substance use disorders, and their family members, it seeks to dismantle medical stigma associated with substance use and educate on various treatment pathways. It also recognizes clinician burnout and provides practical examples of active listening and authenticity.
IHI STAAR Root Cause Analysis Tool
This RCA tool is one of those that we recommend for hospitals.
Immunization and Vaccine Resources
Link to IPRO Immunization and Vaccine Resources Web page with up-to-date links to:
- National resources
- COVID-19 resources
- Influenza resources
- Pneumococcal resources
- State specific resources