It’s critical for healthcare personnel in long-term care settings to get the influenza (flu) vaccine. Influenza is a serious health threat, especially for vulnerable populations like older adults and people living with long-term disabilities.
Mental and substance use conditions often co-occur. In other words, individuals with substance use conditions often have a mental health condition at the same time and vice versa.
Antibiotics have been a critical public health tool since the discovery of penicillin in 1928. Today, however, the emergence of drug resistance in bacteria is reversing the miracles of the past eighty years
More than 40 years ago, Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter began researching real companies and leaders to study why 70 percent of businesses fail to execute their strategies and only 5 percent meet or exceed them.
End of life discussions are a difficult but necessary response to address the needs of the families and wishes of patients.
Advancing Excellence is offering Disrupt Infections: Creating a Community of Prevention workshops to explore how creating unity in the care setting can help break the web of infection in simple, practical ways.
atom Alliance offers several quality improvement templates that can be used in your facility to reduce adverse drug events (ADEs). They are not meant to replace tools that you may already be using, but rather as supplements to accelerate improvement.
atom Alliance has developed a comparison chart showing the overlap between Meaningful Use (MU) Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs) and the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS).
Regular foot examinations can reduce the risk of amputations among people with diabetes. atom Alliance has provided this quick, three-minute exam to meet the screening needs of patients.
It’s critical for all providers to follow the same protocol when caring for patients. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has supplied a template to help your practice to develop a protocol for controlling hypertension in adults.
