Alliant Quality hosts monthly Learning and Action Network (LAN) events for our Nursing Home groups and Community Coalitions. A LAN is a group of health care professionals and stakeholder organizations, convened by the QIO, which come together to improve patient care or population health and spread best practices through peer-to-peer learning and solution.
Join us on Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 12:30pm ET/ 11:30am CT for the Community Coalition Learning & Action Network webinar, This Changes Everything Grief in the Time of COVID-19. Licensed Clinical Social Worker Janie Mardis will provide guidance about managing grief and loss in the wake of COVID-19. We’ll gain practical strategies that can be used to help our community.
To help LTC facilities with the new CMS requirement, Alliant Quality will host a 30-minute webinar event on Wednesday, June 24th at 2pm ET/1PM CT to review the COVID-19 Module in NHSN and address frequently asked questions data submissions.
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
• Understand how to log in and submit COVID-19 data for your facility into the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).
• Understand how to add users, deactivate users, and change the NHSN administrators for your facility.
• Review frequently asked questions for the following but not limited to: data quality, reviewing your data on the CMS website, withdrawing duplicate facility IDs, and changing your CCN and facility type.
For more information or technical assistance, please contact Marilee Johnson, MBA, MT (ASCP), Technical Advisor, Infection Prevention at marilee.johnson@allianthealth.org or 919-695-83
This event is hosted by Alliant Quality, the quality improvement group of Alliant Health Solutions (AHS), the Medicare Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
Join us on Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 2pm ET/ 1pm CT for the Nursing Home Learning & Action Network webinar, Assessing and Reducing Opioid Prescribing in Long Term Care. Together, we’ll learn from expert safety pharmacist, Dr. Tanya Vadala, about the current CMS regulations, guidelines and policies to assess and reduce Opioid prescribing in LTC.
Join us on Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 12:30 p.m. ET/ 11:30 a.m. CT for the Community Coalition Learning & Action webinar, Essential Communication for Cross Continuum Infection Control: Lessons Learned
This 30-minute session will provide an overview of lessons learned from the frontline by New York healthcare professionals in response to the COVID-19 pandemic including the importance of cross-setting communication and care coordination for infection control during care transitions.
This Learning & Action Network event is hosted by Alliant Quality, the quality improvement group of Alliant Health Solutions (AHS), the Medicare Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
Learning Objectives: By the end of this session, you will be able to:
→ Discuss the importance of Best Practice Tools for Cross Continuum Communication and Care Management.
→ Identify tools and resources for effective Infection Control Communication across Care Settings.
→ Discuss lessons learned from the field for improved cross continuum care management of patients with Infections.
