Quality Resources

Alliant Health Solutions

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feedingamerica.org

louhomeless.org

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Use this interactive web tool to determine which resources are best for you. We look …

This program can provide meals at home for older adults who are unable to cook …

Cabinet for Health and Family Services (ky.gov)

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Kentucky Homeplace is recognized at the national, state, and local levels as a community health …

seniorhomes.com

kyhousing.org

kyhousing.org

Find assistance near you from local charities, non-profits or government agencies, such as Human or …

American Heart Association

Stride BP

AMA

World Hypertension League

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CDC

targetbp.org

allianthealth.org

NHLBI, NIH

Target:BP

CDC

American Heart Association

CDC

American Heart Association

CardioSmart

CDC

This toolkit is a collection of best practices to aid in readiness efforts to appropriately …

• Kentucky Sepsis Consortium Presentation
• Blood Cultures Presentation
• References

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• Kentucky Sepsis Consortium Presentation
• Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements: Findings from the 2023 NHSN Annual Survey

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The Health Resources and Services Administration’s National Maternal Mental Health Hotline (1-833-TLC-MAMA) is available 24/7 for pregnant and postpartum individuals with mental health concerns. The hotline’s professional counselors provide free and confidential emotional support, resources and referrals via

Death by suicide is a leading cause of maternal mortality and accounts for about 20% of postpartum deaths. This AHA infographic outlines statistics on the importance of maternal mental health and shares strategies and resources hospitals can use

This publication provides details on the impact of sepsis in Kentucky. The data includes details on hospital utilization due to sepsis and the people who have been impacted by the condition in the Commonwealth. (KHA)

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Color-coded spreadsheet to assist with identifying breakdowns in best practice (KHA)

Color-coded spreadsheet to assist with identifying breakdowns in best practice (KHA)

Color-coded spreadsheet to assist with identifying breakdowns in best practice (KHA)

Color-coded spreadsheet to assist with identifying breakdowns in best practice (KHA)

Color-coded spreadsheet to assist with identifying breakdowns in best practice (KHA)

Color-coded spreadsheet to assist with identifying breakdowns in best practice (KHA)

Color-coded spreadsheet to assist with identifying breakdowns in best practice (KHA)

Color-coded spreadsheet to assist with identifying breakdowns in best practice (KHA)

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• Kentucky Sepsis Consortium Presentation
• Improving Sepsis Care (Spring View) Presentation
• Improving Sepsis Care (Saint Joseph Berea) Presentation

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This tool is designed to support facility healthcare-associated infection surveillance using the revised McGeer criteria. (Alliant Health Solutions)

The Alliant Health Solutions (AHS) Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) Surveillance & Dashboard tool is a modifiable spreadsheet designed to support nursing facility infection prevention and control (IPC) surveillance.

CDC

Para Los Pacientes y sus Familias (CDC)

For Patients and Families (CDC)

For Health Care Professionals (CDC)

Sepsis Fact Sheet for Nursing Facilities (Alliant Health Solutions)

For the FY 2025 Program year, the SNF VBP Program will award incentive payments to SNFs based on their performance on the SNF 30-Day All-Cause Readmission Measure (SNFRM). (CMS.gov)

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Promotional poster for MyKY.info

Informational brochure for MyKY.info and Family Scholar House

Printable card with QR code promoting MyKY.info

• Kentucky Sepsis Consortium – Download slides
• Clark Regional Medical Center
• Harrison Memorial
• Using T2 Technology to Move the Needle on Sepsis (UofL)

Alliant Health Solutions

Providing direct assistance and case management to survivors of human trafficking, this program also aims to educate the community about human trafficking, as well as how to identify individuals who are being forced or coerced for the purpose

Scientific study finds that many widely recognized indicators of trafficking in online escort ads are likely not reliable. Research also produces new practice guide. (National Institute of Justice)

Links to CEU/CME resources.

The H.O.P.E. (Healthcare Observations for the Prevention & Eradication of Human Trafficking) is a survivor-informed, trauma-informed, and patient-centered virtual training that equips all healthcare workers to identify potential human trafficking victims, give support, and offer resources

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PATH aims to prevent trafficking in three strategic ways: Education, Partnership, and PATHWAY Services

In January 2021, the Kentucky OAG launched a statewide human trafficking awareness campaign, “Your Eyes Save Lives.” The campaign combats human trafficking by raising awareness of the signs of human trafficking
and empowers citizens, law enforcement, and community leaders

Office of Victims Advocacy

These Protocol Guidelines provide a roadmap for state and local governments, service providers, community organizations, and others to prevent labor trafficking, protect and support victims, and hold traffickers accountable.

The purpose of this training series is to educate frontline officers on how to recognize and respond to victims of child sex trafficking.

The Victim Services Working Group of the Kentucky State Human Trafficking Task Force has compiled a resource directory to assist government agencies, providers, and members of the public in serving survivors of trafficking. This resource and referral document

The purpose of this document is to provide law enforcement, service providers, government agencies, and individuals with best practices for responding to human trafficking incidents in the state of
Kentucky. The goal is to provide a victim-centered response that

A Comprehensive Report of Existing Multi-Disciplinary Data (Kentucky Statewide Human Trafficking Task Force)

The Kentucky Statewide Human Trafficking Task Force is a multi-disciplinary task force bringing together law enforcement, victim advocates, service agencies, and survivor leaders to combat human trafficking in Kentucky.

A training module specific to healthcare that actually uses simulation-based training for identification, treatment, and referral of trafficked individuals.

SOAR Online offers FREE education from the government through the Office of Administration of Children and Families that has modules specifically for healthcare on essentially all of the
basic components of recognizing possible indicators of trafficking and response protocols.

A tip sheet for identification of potential trafficking. (Blue Campaign)

Blue Campaign is a national public awareness campaign designed to educate the public, law enforcement, and other industry partners to recognize the indicators of human trafficking, and how to appropriately respond to possible cases. Blue Campaign provides education

Human Trafficking Institute

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Department of Health & Human Services

Contains information, definitions, Kentucky and national statistics, educational materials for healthcare and law enforcement, CEU training, and resources for hospitals.

Hospitals Against Violence

HEAL

OneFirm Worldwide

Fact sheet on Human Trafficking, Spanish (Blue Campaign)

Fact sheet on Human Trafficking, English (Blue Campaign)

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Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)

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• ARH
• Three Rivers Medical Center
• Meadowview Regional Medical Center
• Ephraim McDowell Hospital System

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CDC

This sepsis gap analysis tool can help facilities assess the difference between actual practice and expected performance of sepsis prevention and management practices (i.e., facility policies and procedures, regulations, or practice guidelines). This tool can support nursing facility

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Outline developed by Libby Chinnes, RN, BSN, CIC, FAPIC

• St. Elizabeth Healthcare
• Owensboro Health Regional Hospital
• Kentucky Sepsis Consortium – Download slides

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CHI Saint Joseph Health

Baptist Health La Grange

Baptist Health Richmond

UofL Health

Owensboro Health Regional Hospital

This presentation provides hypertension statistics and data, including: Hypertension Prevalence by County (2018-2020), Hypertension Mortality Rates, and Contributing Factors Compounding Hypertension.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Includes Root Cause Analysis worksheet (Alliant Health Solutions)

Kentucky Hospital Association

TeamSTEPPS Curriculum, Pocket Guide, and more

These webinars cover a variety of health care and team training topics, including TeamSTEPPS, patient safety, change management, and more.

Society of Critical Care Medicine

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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AHA Center for Health Innovation

Search Leapfrog’s Hospital and Surgery Center Ratings

The purpose of Quality Check is to list Joint Commission accreditation status.

Find and compare information about the quality of care at over 4,000 Medicare-certified hospitals, including over 130 Veterans Administration (VA) medical centers and over 50 military hospitals, across the country. (CMS)

CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network is the nation’s most widely used healthcare-associated infection tracking system. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

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American Heart Association

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AHA Institute for Diversity and Health Equity

Institute for Healthcare Improvement Forum (December 10 – 13, 2023)

The Specifications Manual for National Hospital Inpatient Quality Measures contains abstraction guidance and technical specifications to successfully submit the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hospital inpatient quality measures.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Worksheet with SBAR script (Alliant Health Solutions)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Alliant Health Solutions

As part of Sepsis Awareness Month, KHA’s Vice President of Clinical Strategy and Transformation Deb …

Kentucky Sepsis Consortium

Rebecca Sell, MD – UC San Diego Health …

Wolters Kluwer

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When there is a concern that a child may be at risk for sepsis, it’s important to start
communicating with the family. Here are some talking points to share with
parents/caregivers.

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To receive a full-size poster for your hospital, contact Deb Campbell.

Sepsis is the body’s overwhelming and life-threatening response to infection which can lead to tissue damage, organ failure and death. In the U.S. alone, sepsis affects 1.7 million people and takes 350,000 lives every year. However, as many

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Be Antibiotics Aware is a national effort to help fight antibiotic resistance and improve antibiotic prescribing and use.

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

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Answer Key (Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Sepsis Alliance

New IP checklist

CMS

KHA 2023 Quality Conference Presentation: Shannon Davis, RN and Amory Scott, PharmD, BCPS

KHA 2023 Quality Conference Presentation: Angela Gibson, PharmD, MBA, Director of Inpatient Pharmacy Services, Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center

KHA 2023 Quality Conference Presentation: Panel Discussion

KHA 2023 Quality Conference Presentation: Kristin Vinson, MSN, RN, CSRN, Clark Regional Medical Center

KHA 2023 Quality Conference Presentation: Jessica D. Campbell,MS, Ed.S.,CPHQ

KHA 2023 Quality Conference Presentation: The Brook Hospitals

KHA 2023 Quality Conference Presentation: Paige Holt, BSN, RN, CHI St. Joseph Flaget – Medical Surgical Unit

KHA 2023 Quality Conference Presentation: LifePoint Health

KHA 2023 Quality Conference Presentation: Norton Women’s and Children’s Hospital

KHA 2023 Quality Conference Presentation: Loree Holland, Director, Patient Experience, St. Elizabeth Healthcare

KHA 2023 Quality Conference Presentation: Kristin Vinson, MSN, RN, CSRN Confidence, Director of Education & Float Pool Nursing, Clark Regional Medical Center

This customizable, educational toolkit aims to help ICUs reduce rates of central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI). (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

KHA 2023 Quality Conference Presentation: Annie Campbell, Quality Manager, CHI Saint Joseph Health

Sepsis Survivor Darrell Raikes and KHA Vice President of Quality & Health Professions Deb Campbell …

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What sepsis survivors need to know (CDC, Sepsis Alliance, & Rory Staunton Foundation for Sepsis Prevention)

At one children’s hospital, a simple electronic trigger reduced onset sepsis cases and mortalities by more than half. (Children’s Hospital Association)

Norton Children’s Hospital and UK HealthCare Kentucky Children’s Hospital

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

AHRQ

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Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation (SBAR) is a communication technique used to convey a complete message in a concise manner. With SBAR, communication becomes streamlined and systematic, allowing less room for human error. (Alliant Health Solutions)

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed back years of progress made combating antimicrobial resistance (AR) in the United States… (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

This document was provided on top of pizzas delivered to nursing areas within the hospital.

Cincinnati Children’s

Would you be willing to share your story to bring awareness to sepsis? (Baptist Health)

AHRQ

The General Abstraction Guidelines explain the different sections of the data element definitions and provide direction for common questions and issues that arise in medical record abstraction.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

IPRO HQIC

Alliant Quality

Alliant Health Solutions

Alliant Health Solutions

Alliant Health Solutions

Alliant Health Solutions

Alliant Health Solutions

Alliant Health Solutions

Alliant Health Solutions

Alliant Health Solutions

Alliant Health Solutions

The tool is one element of a transitional care services program and provides a framework for standardized follow-up discharge calls to patients identified as high risk for rehospitalization. The tool can be used for discharges from multiple levels

Saint Francis Hospital

Society for Healthcare Epidemiology (SHEA)

A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines

IPRO QIN-QIO

IPRO NQIIC

KHA 2022 Quality Conference Presentation: Amanda Green of UK Healthcare and Bill Harrington of St. Elizabeth Healthcare

KHA 2022 Quality Conference Presentation: Tammy Johnson, RN, BS, CPM, AVP

KHA 2022 Quality Conference Presentation: Cynthia Elliott, RPh, CDCES, Jackson Purchase Medical Center

KHA 2022 Quality Conference Presentation: Clifford Cornett, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS and J. Ryan Meadows, PharmD, BCCCP, BCIDP, BCPS

KHA 2022 Quality Conference Presentation: Allen Brenzel, MD and Katherine Marks, PhD

KHA 2022 Quality Conference Presentation: Lisa Weatherwax & Britteny Matero

KHA 2022 Quality Conference Presentation: Stefanie Spalding, APRN, FNP-C, CWON-AP and Samantha Port, DNP, MBA, RNC, CPPS, CPHQ

KHA 2022 Quality Conference Presentation: Rochelle Beard MSN, RN, CPN, CIC, Infection Preventionist

KHA 2022 Quality Conference Presentation: Kaitlyn Krolikowski, MPH, Network Director, Purchase Area Health Connections, Purchase District Health Department

KHA 2022 Quality Conference Presentation: Heather Napier MSN, RN, CCRN, Executive Director of Quality and Outcomes, Baptist Health Corbin and Bill Bryant MD, FAAFP, CPHQ, CPPS, Chief Quality & Patient Safety Officer, Owensboro Health

KHA 2022 Quality Conference Presentation: Sandra C. Garmon Bibb, DNSc., RN, FAAN

KHA 2022 Quality Conference Presentation: Thomas Workman, Ph.D., PFE Support SME, IPRO HQIC, American Institutes for Research

IPRO HQIC

An important component of high-quality, safe, and patient-centered care is the ability to understand the unique characteristics of the patients, families, and caregivers that are serviced by a provider. (IPRO HQIC)

KHA 2022 Quality Conference Presentation: Susan V. White, RN, PhD, CPHQ, FNAHQ, NEA-BC

This toolkit can help hospital infection prevention programs implement a decolonization protocol that was found to reduce bloodstream infections by more than 30 percent in adult inpatients who were not in intensive care units (ICUs) and who had

IPRO HQIC

Executive Audience: How the HEOA can lower your financial risk and help achieve the Triple AIM (IPRO Healthcentric Advisors)

IPRO HQIC

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services

IPRO HQIC

IPRO HQIC

IPRO HQIC

IPRO HQIC

IPRO HQIC

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AHA

The General Abstraction Guidelines explain the different sections of the data element definitions and provide direction for common questions and issues that arise in medical record abstraction.

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In this webinar, our presenters will: Discuss the importance of identifying patients’ social determinants of …

In this briefing, experts overviewed the specific health and access challenges faced by people experiencing homelessness. (Alliance for Health Policy)

IPRO HQIC

Jefferson Healthcare

IPRO HQIC

Note: Recording requires registration to access. (Owens & Minor)

Webinar on the need for global consensus around venous thromboembolism (VTE) protocol with orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Javad Parvizi, FRCS. (Cardinal Health)

Bobby Redwood, MD, MPH, FACEP Chief of Emergency Medicine Cooley Dickinson Hospital Bob Dickerson, RRT, …

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

IPRO HQIC PFE LAN

USAAW is an annual observance that raises awareness of the threat of antibiotic resistance and the importance of appropriate antibiotic use.

Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)

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Baptist Health

The implementation of evidence-based early recognition and invasive/non-invasive treatment guidelines for Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock for patients presenting on admission through our Emergency Department and those developing severe sepsis or septic shock within our inpatient units.

CMS

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Deaconess Hospital Henderson

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T.J. Regional Health

KHA 2021 Quality Conference Presentation: Dr. Brittney Allen 

Acumen, LLC

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This document provides a blueprint that outlines the actionable steps organizations can take to successfully improve person
and family engagement and summarizes the available evidence-based practice protocols. (Patient Safety Movement Foundation)

This Orientation Guide is intended for use upon hire for a novice or experienced Infection Preventionist (IP) in any healthcare or
public health setting. (Kansas Department of Health and Environment)

The American Diabetes Association “Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes,” is intended to provide the components of diabetes care, general treatment goals, and tools to evaluate the quality of care.

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Meadowview Regional Medical Center

Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This toolkit helps hospitals prevent CAUTI in patients and improve safety culture at the unit level by implementing concepts from the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP). (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)

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AHRQ

These standards — in the Leadership (LD); Medical Staff (MS); Provision of Care, Treatment, and Services (PC); and Performance Improvement (PI) chapters of the hospital accreditation manual — are designed to improve the quality and safety of care

T.J. Regional Health

American Journal of Infection Control

The purpose of this American Nurses Association/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention White Paper is to inform registered nurses in the United States about the problem of antibiotic resistance and facilitate their embracing an expanded and clearly recognized

Evidence-based guidelines for implementation and measurement of antibiotic stewardship interventions in inpatient populations including long-term care were prepared by a multidisciplinary expert panel of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

Association of periOperative Registered Nurses

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

For patients and their caregivers preparing to leave a hospital, nursing home, or other care setting (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)

HHS Public Access (Gyang, Shieh, Forsey, …

Kentucky Hospital Association

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National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute