Author: IPRO

This short presentation highlights a process to determine the reliability of a process using a simple tool to identify opportunity for improvement.

This resource supplements the Health Equity Organization Assessment (HEOA) and offers best practices to address opportunities for improvement from the HEOA results. It is a valuable resource for any organization seeking best practices for improving consistent patient demographic data collection – including REaL (race, ethnicity and language) and SDOH (social determinants of health) – and using the data to identify and address health disparities.

NQIIC Health Equity Roadmap

This resource covers three key areas that should be addressed before beginning any quality improvement or patient safety initiative. It does have a focus on health equity.

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This compendium of tools and resources aims to support healthcare professions in providing equitable and high-quality care for individuals with disabilities.

This short video presents a process to determine the reliability of a process using a simple tool to identify opportunity for improvement.

Individuals that identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or other sexual orientations and gender identities face unique health-related challenges and disparities due to discrimination and stigma in health care settings.

The IPRO QIN-QIO has developed this compendium of tools and resources for healthcare professionals to help promote more affirming, inclusive, and equitable care for the LGBTQ+ community.

This toolkit provides health care professionals and other key stakeholders information on implementation and reimbursement for accredited DSMT and MDPP programs that meet CMS guidelines for Medicare reimbursement.

This resource has information and best practices for screening patients for food insecurity, including a validated two-question assessment that can be used at point-of-care to screen patients. It also includes several resources for patients who screen positive for food insecurity.

This toolkit incorporates the experiences and lessons learned by health care facilities that have implemented the MATCH strategies to improve their medication reconciliation processes.

This toolkit is designed for organizational and program leaders who are developing programs to improve the health and well-being of individuals with complex health and social needs.

Discharge planning begins shortly after the patient is admitted to the hospital, using the 8P risk assessment screening tool will help identify which patients have the highest risk for readmission.

The Society of Hospital Medicine’s Project BOOST patient tool helps them prepare to address situations after discharge successfully

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.

This self-assessment tool heightens awareness of distinguishing systems and practices related to the safe use of 11 categories of high-alert medications.