Quality Improvement and Transformation

Immunization Toolkit

What Your Health Center Needs to Know

Performance Measures

Quality Center

Some of the topics covered are: The Role of Leadership in Creating a Culture of Patient and Family Centered Care The Role of Nurse Practitioners in Health Care: Providing Patient-Centered Care Partnerships between Clinicians and Community-Based Organizations to Improve Patient Outcomes

The Team Guide helps build high-functioning teams and provides practical, hands-on tools—easy to use, actionable and measureable. Useful for practices at any stage, the Team Guide is built in modules, enabling practices to easily pinpoint relevant topics and areas of interest. It’s free, with a wide array of downloadable tools and resources.

Improvement Tracker is a dynamic, interactive tool that allows you to track any of the measures currently available in the Topics area of IHI.org. Just select the measure you want to track (or create your own custom measure), set your aim, and enter your data. The Improvement Tracker automatically graphs your data. It lets you create reports, and even customize them forvarious audiences—your team, your CEO, your community.

Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Worksheet

To successfully share and spread improvement ideas in an organization, the “Seven Spreadly Sins” addresses the common missteps and how to overcome them through practical tips.

Plan your report with the help of the action items and key questions. (Checklist available in word to document)

Talking Quality

Tools and Resources are categorized into tools to help assess a situation, tools to help make a decision, and tools to help plan a project.

A robust network that provides advanced training to community-based health care providers to manage complex, chronic diseases. Providers are able to gain new skills and knowledge through a series of case-based, interactive learning sessions through video conferencing.

World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that every day approximately 800 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth (WHO, 2023). Complications arising from pregnancy and childbirth contribute to the unfortunate loss of women's lives. Most of these complications emerge during pregnancy and are largely preventable or treatable with appropriate health intervention (WHO, 2023). Learn more in this resource guide.

World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that around 1.3 million women and girls living with HIV become pregnant each year. In the absence of intervention, the rate of transmission of HIV from a mother living with HIV to her child during pregnancy, labor, delivery, or breastfeeding ranges from 15% to 45% (WHO, n.d.). HIV can be transmitted to a baby during pregnancy, childbirth, and breast/chest feeding, known as perinatal transmission (CDC, 2023). Learn more in this resource guide.

Resources can be found for the following topics:

EHR Selection & Implementation

Health Information Exchange

Health IT/QI Workforce Development

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society

Health IT.gov

Must have MWCN login to view resources.

Webcast with Dr. Dale Benson

Peer Review System

Peer Review System Template

Policy & Procedure–BHCS Providers Website

Presentation–Shore Line Health Solutions from Pennsylvania PCA

This toolkit is for health centers and is designed to help identify tools that capture social determinants of health (SDOH) and improve community health.

Implementation of SDOH Screening - Part 1 Presenter: Regina Neal

SDOH Learning Panel: Best Practices for Implementing SDOH Programs - Part 2 Presenters: Lacey Johnson, MPH and Ellie Kenney

Ways to Improve Community Care Through the Social Determinants of Health (part 1) We discuss the social determinants of health, such as food access, income inequality, access to healthcare, housing, and transportation with Lacey Johnson of Erie Family Health Centers. We dive into strategies and programs that improve the quality of public health in Illinois.

Ways to Improve Community Care Through the Social Determinants of Health (part 2) We talk about improving food access, income inequality, access to healthcare, housing, and transportation with Lacey Johnson of Erie Family Health Centers. We dive into strategies and programs that improve the quality of public health in Illinois.

The toolkit is a comprehensive resource for healthcare providers and staff that compiles available resources to assist clinicians with asthma control and management care. The toolkit also includes patient education resources to help improve patient’s awareness of asthma care recommendations.

This webinar session is a comprehensive introduction to the Asthma Toolkit.

Presenter: Anna Volerman- Beaser, MD Date/Time: August 24, 2018 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (CST)

Presenter: Anna Volerman- Beaser, MD Date/Time: August 31, 2018 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (CST)

Date/Time: May 10, 2019 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (CST)

The National Diabetes Prevention Program

A guide to refer your patients with prediabetes to an evidence-based diabetes prevention program.

IPHCA participated in the CDC’s Chronic Disease and School Health (CDASH) grant through a partnership with the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH). Through this partnership, IPHCA was able to provide health centers mini-grant funding to facilitate chronic disease awareness and outcomes at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), specifically diabetes and hypertension.

An informational webinar recording that includes evidence-based quality improvement strategies.

IPHCA, with support from the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), developed a comprehensive resource to promote immunization coverage among community health centers. Additionally, promising practices from three health centers have been featured: Esperanza Health Centers, Shawnee Health Center and Whiteside County Health Department

Presenters: Jennifer Burns, Kristin Klegovitz Date/Time: February 28, 2018 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Presenter: Marealita Pierce, M.D. Date/Time: March 22, 2018 11:00 a.m.

Presenter: Robin Dodds Date/Time: April 5, 2018 12:00 p.m.

Presenter: Anita Chandra-Puri, M.D. Date/Time: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Presenters: Oluwafikayo Adeyemi, MaryEllen Mendy Date/Time: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Speaker: Scott Goldstein, MD, Northwestern Children’s Practice Presenters: Jennifer Burns, Kristin Klegovitz Date/Time: September 28 / 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Speaker: Matthew Sweeny Date/Time: October 19, 2016 11:00 a.m.

Date: November 3, 2016

Date: June 22, 2017

In collaboration with Health Information Technology, Evaluation and Quality (HITEQ), IPHCA conducted two webinars around electronic patient engagement. Both webinars were led by Nathan Botts, PhD, MSIS, of HITEQ Center. Electronic Patient Engagement Strategies to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening March 29, 2018

Opportunities to Improve Diabetes Outcomes through Electronic Patient Engagement April 18, 2018

This toolkit provides practices with strategies to improving person and family engagement through creating a culture in the practice that emphasizes patient and family perspectives in order to improve quality of care.

Guide created by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to help health professionals in primary care work together with patients and families in order to promote stronger engagement and improve care.

2019 Coordination of Care through Patient Engagement webinar recording.

Diabetes Best Practices Patient Engagement Toolkit

Diabetes Best Practices and Patient Engagement Webinar