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Workgroup updates
Thank you for your continued participation in EQIC’s
affinity workgroup meetings.
We adjusted the regular monthly
schedule this holiday season, and the most recent updates for the
health equity, falls, readmissions and patient and family
engagement workgroups are featured below. Please reach out to the
workgroup leads with any questions.
Health equity
The November meeting was canceled. A summary of the Dec. 5
meeting on cultural competence will appear in a future
newsletter.
Falls
At the Nov. 16 meeting, the group reviewed EQIC-wide falls data,
including the healthcare-acquired conditions rate, falls with
injury and falls with a risk assessment completed within 24 hours
of the fall. Overall, hospitals are performing well and should be
proud of this achievement! Check your hospital-specific data in
the EQIC data portal for more details.
The group then reviewed EQIC’s
rapid-cycle improvement program, which includes a falls
assessment tool hospitals can use to help identify primary gaps
and opportunities for improvement. Teams were asked to review the
opportunities and choose one for a Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle aimed
at improving the prevention of falls and falls with injury. Teams
should be prepared to share results when the group reconvenes in
February.
Readmissions
The November and December workgroup meetings were canceled.
Members were tasked with doing a readmission prevention
initiative PDSA cycle and sharing the results at the January
meeting.
Patient and family engagement
The November and December meetings have been canceled. We
encourage hospitals to review their current patient engagement
strategies and implement policies and practices to strengthen
their PFE workplan. Hospitals should also establish a patient and
family advisory committee to incorporate patient voices, if
feasible.
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Announcements
EQIC’s new patient
safety toolkit
EQIC is pleased to share its latest publication, the Unit-based
patient safety and quality improvement toolkit and its seven
accompanying performance improvement tools. The toolkit provides
guidance on strategies to engage frontline staff in QI efforts,
garner leadership support and develop a culture of safety through
a unit-based approach. This multifaceted guide explores
approaches to reducing hospital-acquired conditions, infections
and readmissions.
EQIC highlighted seven key quality improvement tools in the
toolkit and provided examples of real-life hospital settings in
which they can be used. We encourage you to review the guide with
both experienced and new team members.
Updated data documents available
EQIC updated its Measurement Grid and Data Methodology Guide to
reflect the most current process and outcome measures being
collected for analysis in our clinical focus areas. The grid
provides an overview of measurement specifications, while the
guide further details codes and calculations, CMS contract goals
and CMS-determined benchmarks. Please be sure to take advantage
of these resources and review the measurements EQIC collects.
Updates to the guide include:
- Medicare
fee-for-service measures (listed in the appendix); and
- updated
sepsis mortality methodology.
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Tools and resources
DEI data insights
from AHA
Hospitals and health systems
across the nation have made strides toward eliminating health
disparities and incorporating diversity, equity and inclusion
strategies into their policies and organizational practices to
create effective change for the patients and communities they
serve. This set of data insights is the
first in a series of reports highlighting results from the
American Hospital Association’s Institute for Diversity and
Health Equity 2022 DEI Benchmark Survey.
Engaging boards and executive leadership in safety
As part of the National Action
Alliance to Advance Patient Safety webinar series, the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality presented a session on engaging
boards and executive leadership in safety. Speakers discussed how
healthcare leadership can support board engagement on quality,
the workflow and attributes of a board committed to quality, and
strategies and tools that can support the board’s oversight of
quality. View the recording and access the slides.
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Education
TODAY!
Thursday, Dec. 7
Spreading bundle tools and resources on
high-reliability culture
10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Like EQIC’s October conference, this CMS
event focuses on the use of high-reliability tools that have
achieved safety, quality and efficiency targets in numerous
hospitals. The aim is to build a culture and establish processes
that significantly reduce systemic failures and enable effective
responses when such failures do arise. CMS also will showcase the
success stories of hospitals that have effectively engaged
leaders, providers and frontline staff in a collective endeavor
to enhance outcomes.
We encourage all hospital staff
to attend, including executive leadership, clinical leaders,
managers, quality improvement team members and bedside staff.
Saturday, Dec. 9
WOCN Wound Education Day
10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
The Wound, Ostomy and Continence
Nurses Society presents its inaugural Wound Education Day. This
free event is aimed at advancing wound care through education and
equipping wound care professionals with the most current,
evidence-based knowledge to teach, prevent and effectively heal
even the most challenging wounds.
The day features nine sessions
brought to you by experienced WOC nursing professionals and
subject matter experts and will award a total of 6.75 Contact
Hours and 0.50 Pharmacology Credits.
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