Welcome to the monthly QIO eNews. We provide you with the latest tools, resources, and learning opportunities that can be shared with your staff, residents, patients, and community members.
Chief Medical Officer Corner
Clostridioides difficile is a gram-positive anerobic bacteria that forms spores and releases toxins. C. diff infection (CDI) has been a “difficult” one to defeat across the healthcare ecosystem. Spores live on surfaces for months, up to 50% of long-term care residents may be asymptomatic carriers, and both prevention and treatment recommendations have evolved quickly.
CDC’s Core Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Safe Healthcare Delivery in All Settings
Adherence to infection prevention and control practices is essential to providing safe and high-quality patient care across all settings where healthcare is delivered. This document concisely describes a core set of infection prevention and control practices that are required in all healthcare settings, regardless of the type of healthcare provided.
Protecting Adults Against Pneumococcal Disease
To raise awareness about the importance of pneumococcal vaccination in adults, the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) has developed a decision tree tool and other resources to help healthcare professionals understand which pneumococcal vaccine is recommended for whom, and when.
2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
The National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report assesses the performance of our healthcare system and identifies areas of strengths and weaknesses, as well as disparities, for access to healthcare and quality of healthcare. Quality is described in terms of six priorities: patient safety, person-centered care, care coordination, effective treatment, healthy living, and care affordability. The report is based on more than 250 measures of quality and disparities covering a broad array of healthcare services and settings.
Preventable ER Visits
Program Focus | Medication Safety Program
It is estimated that more than 1 million individuals are seen in hospital emergency departments for adverse drug events each year in the United States. Over one-quarter of these patients need to be hospitalized for further treatment. Patient safety and quality initiatives that focus on the medications and patient age groups most commonly involved in adverse drug events have the greatest potential for reducing the number of emergency department visits caused by adverse drug events.
How to Choose Between the Doctor's Office, Urgent Care and the Emergency Room
When your patients are feeling sick or have an injury, do they know the best choice for medical care? To help patients make decisions on the right care at the right time, share our Quick Patient Guide below.
Qsource Communities on Facebook
Qsource launched a new Facebook page called "Qsource Communities" where our partners and stakeholders can find upcoming events, relevant tools to download, announcements to share, and much more. Join the quality improvement community!
Visit Qsource's New QIO Website
Check out QIO.Qsource.org! Here you'll find our resource library, curated toolkits, event registration, and more. Stay tuned as we continue to add more value through this new site!
The QIN-QIO Program is one of the largest federal programs dedicated to improving health quality at the local level. Qsource has served as a Medicare contractor since 1973. We provide our services free-of-charge to our collaborating providers, so you will not incur any charges for use of our staff and resources.
This material was prepared by Qsource, a/an Network of Quality Improvement and Innovation Contractors under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Views expressed in this document do not necessarily reflect the official views or policy of CMS or HHS, and any reference to a specific product or entity herein does not constitute endorsement of that product or entity by CMS or HHS. 23.QIO.03.036
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