Best Practice Intervention Packages
Schedule for Best Practice Intervention Packages
Month |
Best Practice Topic |
| March 2007 | Hospitalization Risk Assessment |
| April 2007 | Patient Emergency Plan |
| May 2007 | Medication Management |
| June 2007 | Phone Monitoring and Frontloading Visits |
| July 2007 | Teletriage |
| August 2007 | Telemonitoring |
| September 2007 | Immunization |
| October 2007 | Physician Relationships |
| November 2007 | Fall Prevention |
| December 2007 | Patient Self-Management |
| January 2008 | Disease Management |
| February 2008 | Transitional Care Coordination |
Who?
Best Practice Intervention Packages were designed for use by any home health agency to support reducing avoidable acute care hospitalizations. Any home care clinician can use the free educational materials.
What?
Best Practice Intervention Packages are a compilation of background information, leadership guidance, implementation tools and discipline specific education and application materials specific to the targeted best practice of the month.
Where?
All Best Practice Intervention Packages are downloadable from this Web site or on www.medqic.org under Home Health. You can click on any of the available packages in the right bar on this page or above in the schedule. Also, there is a link for all available free continuing educational units (CNEs) for RNs and for certificates of participation for therapists. See the Continuing Education Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). All continuing education will end on February 28, 2008.
Why?
The Best Practice Intervention Packages were designed to educate and create awareness of strategies or "best practice interventions" to reduce avoidable acute care hospitalizations.
How?
Home health agencies can pick and choose the components of the packages they want to use.
Too Busy?
Use the Fast Track option. The Fast Track package is ideal for the agency that finds they have limited time and resources in any given month and wants a "fast track" review of the tool and key points only.
Each month, a voluntary survey will be e-mailed to all campaign participants and posted to this Web site. This survey will be available for approximately one week each month. Findings from these monthly surveys will be posted to the Web. Below are archives of previous voluntary survey findings.
- March 2007
- April 2007
- May 2007
- June 2007
- July 2007
- August 2007
- September 2007
- October 2007
- November 2007
- December 2007
- Final Campaign Survey Results
Every home health agency who submits a monthly survey within the designated time parameters will be eligible to be randomly selected as the HHQI National Campaign Agency of the Month. This agency's information will appear in various promotional venues related to the campaign. Below are archives of the selected Agencies of the Month:
- January 2008 - Williamson County Programs on Aging Home Health (WCPA), Herrin, IL
- December 2007 - Shore Healthcare at Home, Onley, VA
- November 2007 - Gunnison Valley Hospital Home Care, Gunnison, UT
- October 2007 - Baptist Home Health Care, Jacksonville, FL
- September 2007 - Kearny County Home Health, Lakin, KS
- August 2007 - Unicare Home Health Services, Tyler, TX
- July 2007 - Yellowstone Visiting Nurse Service, Yellowstone, MT
- June 2007 - Florida Hospital Home Care Services, Orlando, FL
- May 2007 - Joyal Health Care Services, Jacksonville, FL
- April 2007 - Saint Joseph Home Care Services, Lexington, KY
New Resources
The February Best Practice Intervention Package - Transitional Care Coordination is now available
Best Practice Intervention Package Binder Cover