This fillable PDF resource created by IPRO may be helpful for preparing for attestation of the CMS Hospital Commitment to Health Equity Measure.
Category: Resource
US Department of Veterans Affairs: Opioid Use and Suicide Risk
Risk factors and implications for suicide among people with chronic pain and those who use opioids.
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.
New York Office of Mental Health: Grief Counseling Resource Guide
A guide to working with individuals experiencing trauma-related grief.
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
Eliminating Stigma Toolbox
Implicit bias and stigma are potential factors in perpetuating healthcare disparities and have a negative impact on the patients who experience them. Organizations committed to advancing health equity will make it a priority to acknowledge and mitigate these forms of discrimination. Each manifests differently and requires a different approach to address.
SIREN Screening Tool Comparison Table
The SIREN team compiles the content of several of the most widely used social health screening tools to facilitate comparisons. The table summarizes characteristics for each tool, including information about the intended population or setting, total number of questions, social health domains covered, and domain-specific measures used.
Interpersonal Safety: A Guide to Screening and Connecting Patients to Support Services
This resource assists providers to screen their patients for interpersonal safety, a health-related social need that may impact health outcomes.
A Guide to Screening Patients for Social Isolation and Loneliness
This resource has information and best practices for screening patients for social isolation and loneliness including a validated assessments that can be used at point-of-care to screen patients. It also includes several resources for patients who screen positive.
Integrating Behavioral Health into Primary Care
COVID-19 changed our world, impacting both our physical and mental health. Healthcare professionals are continuing to incorporate safety protocols to help identify COVID-19 cases and protect against spread.
But what is being done to help identify mental health conditions?
Join the IPRO QIN-QIO for an educational program to help primary care offices integrate behavioral health (BH) services (including anxiety and depression screenings) into everyday practice.
This series covered:
- Building a business case for integrating and partnering with a BH organization.
- Successful integration of BH into primary care.
- Best practices for models of integration (collaboration with a BH organization, co-location of BH providers, and full integration of BH providers).
Pain, Enjoyment, General Activity (PEG) Scale
The Pain, Enjoyment, General Activity (PEG) Scale assesses pain intensity and interference and is considered the gold standard for pain scales.
Pain Management Zone Tool
A guide for patients and care partners to assess pain and seek medical care when appropriate using a stoplight concept of green (all clear), yellow (caution/warning), and red (emergency).
Conversation Starter – Opioid Dispensing, Education, and Management for Pharmacists
The Conversation Starter helps pharmacists guide the conversation they have with patients regarding opioid management and lifestyle management, opioid assessment and plan, recommendations, and follow-up steps. This guide is intended to ease what could potentially be a difficult conversation.
Pharmacist’s Response to the Opioid Epidemic: Advanced, Opioid-Specific Counseling Webinar – 1.5 hours ACPE continuing education credit, free when using code.
An on-line instructional webinar created in collaboration with IPRO QIN-QIO and the University at Buffalo can be accessed at the link above.
Prescribers and pharmacists who work or live in DC, DE, CT, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, OH, RI, VT can earn 1.5 hours of free ACPE continuing education for completing this program by using this code when prompted: qinub23.
It is available October 1, 2023, through September 30, 2025, and covers a review the opioid epidemic and regulatory responses, identifies legitimate medical use vs. illegitimate opioid use, reviews basic counseling items with relationship to opioids, identifies advanced counseling items related to opioids and identifies overdose risks indicating provision of naloxone.
Supporting documents for this program include:
Opioid Stewardship – Opioid Counseling Checklist
This tool is intended to help remind pharmacists about opioid-related counseling points as needed.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zYRl_w_59f-ydAu-JSfEcmugdELk1SXz/view?usp=drive_link
Conversation Starter – Opioid Dispensing, Education, and Management for Pharmacists
The Conversation Starter helps pharmacists guide the conversation they have with patients regarding opioid management and lifestyle management, opioid assessment and plan, recommendations, and follow-up steps. This guide is intended to ease what could potentially be a difficult conversation.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yA_xQ1iKvjXvdKA92_cVoWBzCBNDJOh-/view?usp=drive_link
Pain Management Zone Tool
A guide for patients and care partners to assess pain and seek medical care when appropriate using a stoplight concept of green (all clear), yellow (caution/warning), and red (emergency).
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TPSuOIdbGzG8Ue6TnBBA3bLA0IzHd8aA/view?usp=drive_link
Pain, Enjoyment, and General Activity (PEG) Scale for Assessing Pain Intensity and Interference
The Pain, Enjoyment, General Activity (PEG) Scale assesses pain intensity and interference and is considered the gold standard for pain scales.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cLGRvi483BEt_FpZxNRuydyGdEpbq393