• Kentucky Sepsis Consortium Presentation
• Blood Cultures Presentation
• References

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

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)

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

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

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

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)

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

Alliant Health Solutions

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

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

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

Includes Root Cause Analysis worksheet (Alliant Health Solutions)

Society of Critical Care Medicine

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.

Worksheet with SBAR script (Alliant Health Solutions)

Alliant Health Solutions

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

Kentucky Sepsis Consortium

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

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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)

Alliant Quality

Alliant Health Solutions

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.

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

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