Author: IPRO

Checklist to cross reference facility emergency preparedness plan with CMS survey requirements to ensure all elements are addressed in facility emergency preparedness plan. There is also a companion document that provides links to resources for emergency preparedness plan development.

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.

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.

Emergency Preparedness Plans (EPP) Training, Templates & More: A Guide for Developing an EPP

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain, 2022, when initiating opioid therapy clinicians should prescribe immediate-release (IR) opioids instead of extended-release and long-acting (ER/LA) opioids, which are slower acting medications with a longer duration of pain relieving action.

This guide provides definitions for opioid naïve and tolerant, identifies key differences between IR and ER/LA opioids, guides transitioning from IR to ER/LA, offers treatment pearls including opioid tapering algorithms, patient education and opioid disposal, provides comprehensive tables for commonly used IR and ER/LA opioids, and includes a morphine milligram equivalent conversion table.

Knowledge Sharers education materials and guidance to help spread awareness about health topics relevant to your community members and support population health.

Falls Prevention: What You Need to Know

Help spread awareness about falls and what patients/community members can do to prevent them with this fact sheet.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VcNKowdTNedIMkH4QhbhOafENoJsLJt7/view?usp=drive_link

Falls Prevention Presentation

This PowerPoint presentation is about falls prevention and can be adapted to fit the needs of your specific audience or community.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LGNfeZstiEO5Pk38CYIQCg1hvXcF4uk8/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=103685187999998386862&rtpof=true&sd=true

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.

The following educational materials are intended to be adopted/adapted and shared to increase awareness about immunizations and enhance the health of your community:

Immunization Issue Brief

Help spread awareness about the importance of vaccines to protect against vaccine-preventable diseases and promote healthy communities.

Adult Immunization Presentation

This PowerPoint presentation is about immunization and why it matters. The presentation slides can be adapted to fit the needs of your specific audience or community.

Handout Adult Immunization Card

This resource can be provided to consumers/patients to record and track their immunizations.

Handout: COVID-19 Updated Vaccine What You Need to Know Flyer

This handout can be provided to patients/consumers who want to know more about the COVID-19 vaccine.

Handout: Influenza Vaccine What You Need to Know Flyer

This handout can be provided to patients/consumers who want to know more about the influenza vaccine.

Handout Pneumococcal Vaccine What You Need to Know Flyer

This handout can be provided to patients/consumers who want to know more about the pneumococcal vaccine.

All materials are meant to enhance your current process by using evidence based materials shown to improve patient discharge outcomes and reduce readmissions.

Discharge Planning tool completed by nursing home interdisciplinary teams with the patient and caregiver throughout the discharge planning process. Adapted based on materials from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Project RED (Re-engineered Discharge), and the Coleman Transitions Intervention in support of the Special Innovation Project: Improving Nursing Home Discharges Back to The Community Implementation Guide.

The hospital discharge is a complex process requiring integrated communications among the inpatient care team, primary care team, community services, the patient, and the patient’s caregivers. The RED Toolkit has been expanded to provide complete implementation guidance and adapted to address language barriers, cross-cultural issues, and disparities in health care communication and trust. The toolkit now includes five additional tools that provide step-by-step instructions as a springboard for hospitals to proactively address avoidable readmissions.

This diagnostic tool helps hospitals perform an in-depth review of the last five rehospitalizations to identify opportunities for improvement. This includes conducting chart reviews of the last five readmissions as well as interviews with recently readmitted patients and their family members.

Designing and Delivering Whole-Person Transitional Care: The Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions is intended to help hospital-based readmission reduction teams design and deliver transitional care to address “whole-person needs” (clinical, behavioral, and social). This whole-person approach to transitional care is patient centered, data informed, evidence based, and field tested.

When there’s a change in resident’s condition, this guide helps understand options.