LINKS Portfolio: Advance Care Planning

The IPRO QIN-QIO has prepared educational materials to help spread awareness about health topics relevant to your community members and to support population health. Each LINKS portfolio introduces a health-related topic and resources for more information. This is the cover for the LINKS Advance Care Planning portfolio.

Advance Care Planning Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides data about Advance Care Planning, including the importance, resources that help support the discussion, and links to state-specific requirements.

Advance Care Planning: Tools and Resources to Help You Get Started
This PowerPoint presentation is about Advance Care Planning and can be adapted to fit the needs of your specific audience or community.

Advance Care Planning: Conversation Posters
Posters that can be displayed in consumer or patient-facing areas to encourage discussions about Advance Care Planning. Select the one that best suits your needs, 3 are in English, and 1 in Spanish.

Advance Care Planning: Resources for Patients and Families
A guide that provides a curated list of tools and resources to support patients and providers through the Advance Care Planning process, and serious illness or end-of-life care conversations.

Get to Know Me – Transitions, Transfers, Appointments

“One of the most important steps in providing quality dementia care is to know
the person with dementia.
This resource can provide insight into the resident to avoid triggers that could
result in disruptions due to changes in the environment and care providers.
The form has fillable fields and should be printed and sent with the resident/patient when they will be in an unfamiliar environment. “

Integrating Health-Related Social Needs (HRSN) Screening and Referral into Clinical Workflow

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.

Creating an Integrated Care Plan for Nursing Home Residents Receiving Dialysis Treatment

Clear communication between nursing home and dialysis provider interdisciplinary teams (IDTs) is essential for successful transitions in care when nursing home residents receive dialysis. This integrated care plan highlights the importance of ongoing communication, collaborative care planning and delineated division of responsibilities as critical elements for the successful implementation of a plan of care for nursing home residents who leave their facility for dialysis treatments.

Tips for Decreasing Adverse Drug Events Related to Diabetes Management in Long Term Care Facilities

“More than one in four older adults (>65 years of
age) are diagnosed with diabetes and half of the
older adult population are prediabetic.
As the prevalence of diabetes increases in older
adults living in long term care facilities, it’s
important to minimize adverse drug events for
those who take diabetic medications.1
Unfortunately, even with the advancements of insulin delivery
and new medications, older adults still experience higher rates of
functional disability, increased risk of falls, accelerated muscle loss,
coexisting illness, and premature death.2 To address these concerns,
IPRO has created this list of tips to decrease the number of adverse
drug events related to diabetes management in long term care
facilities.”

Chronic Kidney Disease Change Package 2023

The Chronic Kidney Disease Change Package was developed by the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) to assist primary care programs with a systematic approach for transforming CKD care, advancing kidney health equity, and improving health care quality. At the heart of the Change Package is a dashboard of process improvement activities that can be utilized to address CKD screening, recognition, and management. It is intended to serve as a resource from which ambulatory practices can select approaches to build a CKD quality improvement program based on local practice needs and workflows.

Get to Know Me – Spanish Version

One of the most important steps in providing quality dementia care is familiarity with the person.
This resource can be used to provide insight into the residents’ preferences, life history, and qualities that make them unique. Knowing this information can foster a more relaxed relationship between the resident and care providers. The facility can post this resource where it is accessible to all staff working with the resident.

Feel free to contact the IPRO nursing home team for assistance with Dementia Care or Psychotropic reduction.