Sixty percent of nursing home adverse events – including pressure ulcers, medication errors, falls and infections – are deemed preventable and it’s estimated that one in five nursing home residents suffers preventable harm.
Overview
The Telligen QIN-QIO works with nursing homes to help them achieve their goal of providing high-quality, person-centered care. The National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative enables Telligen to engage nursing homes in quality improvement work using a Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) framework.
Explore topics and resources selected especially for nursing homes with these Telligen toolkits:
- Antibiotic Stewardship in Nursing Homes Toolkit
- Clostridium difficile (CDI) Prevention for Nursing Homes Toolkit
- Improve Your Quality Measures Do-It-Yourself Nursing Homes Toolkit
- Pressure Ulcer/Injury Prevention Toolkit
- Antipsychotic Medication Use in Dementia Care Toolkit
- Bowel and Bladder Incontinence Toolkit
- Fall Prevention Toolkit
- Pain Prevention Toolkit
Download our fact sheet to learn more about this healthcare quality improvement work.
Feature
National Healthcare Safety Network Trailblazers Announced
Nursing homes recognized by Telligen as National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Trailblazers have contributed nearly two years of Clostridiodes difficile (C. diff) infection information to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) NHSN database. The database tracks C. diff infections in nursing homes to help nursing homes and the CDC learn more about the scale and severity of this potentially life-threatening illness. See if your facility is an NHSN Trailblazer and download a free marketing toolkit to help promote your achievement!
Contact Information
Colorado
Elizabeth Schulte Mullins
Elizabeth.Schulte@area-d.hcqis.org
Kristen Ives
Kristen.Ives@area-d.hcqis.org
Illinois
Lisa Bridwell
Lisa.Bridwell@area-D.hcqis.org
Nell Griffin
Nell.Griffin@area-d.hcqis.org
Stacy Gordon
Stacy.Gordon@area-d.hcqis.org
Iowa
Gina Anderson
Gina.Anderson@area-d.hcqis.org
Latest Resources
- Managing Pain and Understanding Opioids: A Guide for Residents and Families in Nursing Homes
- Recruitment and Retention of Millennials in Long-Term Care
- Revisiting Critical Elements of the QAPI Plan: Be Prepared When the CMS Temporary Enforcement Remedies of 2017 Expire
- QAPI Relay – Long-Stay Quality Measure Coding Improvements: Worsening Independent Movement
- Improving Care for Persons Living with Dementia in Nursing Homes