The Health Quality Innovation Network (HQIN), the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) for Virginia, is hosting an office hours series to support survey readiness and help nursing homes be responsive to identified opportunities, survey deficiencies and CMS enhanced enforcement actions. Each 30-minute session will demonstrate how to apply quality improvement principles to your infection control and prevention program and provide turnkey resources to address gaps and drive improvement in your facility.

A panel of nurses, infection preventionists, and quality improvement professionals also will be available to answer questions.

The series begins July 14, 2020 and will cover the following topics:

Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
July 14, 2020 | 2:00 pm

Your facility has worked hard to assess its infection control programs. But do you know the reason for the gaps or breakdowns in your program? During this session, HQIN will share its QAPI RCA resource which complements the CMS QAPI RCA Guide.

Infection Prevention Action Plans
July 28, 2020 | 2:00 pm

Upon completion of the RCA process, the next step is to develop a plan of action. During this session, HQIN will share its Infection Prevention Action Plan Templates that complement the CDC Infection Control Assessment tool. A template for the key categories of improvement, i.e., hand hygiene, surveillance, environmental hygiene, etc. will be available.

Data Collection and Analysis
August 11, 2020 | 2:00 pm

Once your plan is implemented, how do you know if it’s working? During this session, HQIN will share data collection tools to help you track and trend your improvement related to hand hygiene, terminal cleaning, and PPE.  

QAPI: Everyone Has a Role and a Responsibility 
August 25, 2020 | 2:00 pm

It takes a team to ensure improvement is made and sustained. During this session, HQIN will discuss how to engage your team in the quality improvement process in order to hardwire systems, change behavior, reduce gaps, and improve care and compliance.

Click here to register for one or all of these sessions. To learn more about HQIN, visit www.hqin.org.