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In case you missed these stories, here are the top 10 provider-focused stories shared on Qsource in 2015.
Top 10 Provider Stories
Pledge to Get Your Flu Vaccine
Important Update to Pneumococcal Vaccine Recommendations
Have You Been Notified About a PQRS Negative Payment Adjustment?
Five Changes to the Five-Star Nursing Home Rating System
Qsource Partners with Cherokee Health Systems
Nursing homes across the five Qsource states—Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee—are working diligently to improve resident care. Here are the top five nursing home quality improvement resources downloaded from Qsource in 2015
A continuous learning organization
knows where it stands,
knows when and how to change,
uses data to drive performance and
views the organization as an interdependent system.
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.
After a facility conducts TeamSTEPPS training, internal coaches become change agents to help promote and sustain the continuous work and model the new behaviors and change.
Pursuit of the goal for the safest and highest quality healthcare requires optimization of a complex and integrated delivery system that includes people and processes.
The tools and strategies presented in The Long-Term Care Version of TeamSTEPPS correspond to individual teamwork skills
Communication is the lifeline of a well-functioning team. Communication strategies and tools improve effectiveness and promote the sharing of information.
Medicare at 50 Years, an eBook created by The Commonwealth Fund, comprises six in-depth papers about the past, present and future of Medicare, each written by a national expert on Medicare and health policy.
Mutual support is critical to the social and task performance aspects of teams. Team members need to fully understand what each one of the others does in order to provide reinforcement.
Mutual support is the essence of teamwork. It provides a safety net to help prevent errors, increase effectiveness and minimize strain caused by
