WHAT'S AROUND THE CORNER?
Expert Webinar: Elevating the Value of Malnutrition Care
Within Your Facility | Thursday, November 7 at 2:00 PM ET
Join
us on Thursday, November 7 at 2:00 PM ET for the MQii Expert Webinar, “Elevating the Value of Malnutrition Care
Within Your Facility.” During this live webinar, participants will learn
about best practices for communicating the business case for malnutrition
quality improvement activities to hospital leadership, ways to document and
quantify malnutrition in your facility to share with leadership, and
opportunities to increase visibility of patients’ nutritional needs to leaders
at your facility.
The webinar will feature Christy
McFadden, MS, RDN, Quality Improvement Specialist at Spectrum Health and Nathan
Munguia, RD, LDN, CNSC, Clinical Nutrition Manager at AMITA Health Holy Family
and Resurrection Medical Centers.
Attendees will be eligible to receive one-hour CPEU credit
for their participation.
Please register for the webinar in
advance here.
Coffee Break #1: Becoming Comfortable with Data Collection and
Analysis |
Wednesday, November 13 at 11 AM ET
Many of you are new to data collection and analysis
and are seeking guidance on how to better quantify the problem of malnutrition
in your institution or how to assess your progress in improving management of
malnutrition. This call will provide an opportunity to learn from others’
experiences and best practices as well as ask questions of our staff.
Please register for the Coffee Break in
advance here.
Coffee
Break #2: Understanding and Adopting Malnutrition eCQMs | Monday, November 18
at 12 PM ET
Through MQii,
we have shared information about adopting eCQMs to better streamline your data
collection and analysis and to enable your sites to compare your data to
national measures. In the future, we hope this will be an integral component of
public and private quality reporting initiatives. This call will provide an
opportunity for you to better understand the purpose of these measures and how
others have been able to adopt them within their own facilities.
Please register for the Coffee Break in advance here.
Expert
Webinar: Importance of Evaluating and Implementing Malnutrition Screening Tools
| Tuesday, December 10 at 12:00 PM ET
Join
us on Tuesday, December 10 at 12:00 PM ET for the MQii Expert Webinar, “Importance of Evaluating and Implementing
Malnutrition Screening Tools.” During this live webinar, participants will
learn how to:
- Best implement and evaluate validated malnutrition screening tools,
- Increase efficiency of an RDN’s assessment, and
- Communicate about malnutrition with other clinicians following screening.
The
webinar will feature Rebecca Edwards, RD, Senior Clinical Dietitian at Maine
Medical Center and Jennifer Doley, MBA, RD, CNSC, FAND, Regional Clinical
Nutrition Manager and Dietetic Internship Director at Carondelet St. Mary's
Hospital.
Attendees will be eligible to receive one-hour CPEU credit for
their participation.
Please register for the webinar in advance here
.
For all of
our expert webinars, we encourage you to send any questions you have for the
speakers in advance of the webinar to [email protected].
In
case you missed it:
If
you missed previous MQii Learning Collaborative expert webinars, you can access
webinar recordings and slides on the MQii Member Portal. You will also find other member-only
content, including the calendar of upcoming events, pre-recorded educational
webinars, and archived Dish newsletters, on this site. As a reminder, the login information is: Username: MQii Password: MQiiLC2018!
Consider opportunities to share your MQii project
and findings!
Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) Opportunity Announcement
Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation (YNHHSC) – Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed two approaches for presenting disparities in hospital outcome measures: the Within-Hospital Disparity Method and the Across-Hospital Disparity Method. These methods serve two complementary purposes: one method highlights disparities in healthcare quality between patients with and without social risk within hospitals and the second method illuminates variation in healthcare quality for patients with social risk across hospitals.
CORE is recruiting a Hospital and Provider Workgroup of approximately 15 to 20 participants who will provide critical input on the interpretability and usability of the disparity method results to facilitate hospital quality improvement initiatives. CORE is specifically looking for individuals with experience in institutional quality leadership within hospitals or health system, especially providers that have experience in performance improvement focused on healthcare disparities in quality or outcomes.
For more information, please visit the
CORE website.
Potential workgroup members should be aware that participation is voluntary and their input will be recorded in the meeting minutes. Information reviewed at the meetings may be confidential and conflict of interest disclosures will be required. The anticipated time commitment is 3 hours, which includes a 60-minute orientation/Q&A webinar and a 120-minute conference call/webinar, both of which will take place in January 2020.
If you are interested, please submit your resume/curriculum vitae and a brief cover letter which addresses your interest in participation, role in your current organization, any prior participation in disparity initiatives at your organization and/or experience using CMS quality reports, including the confidential reporting of the two disparity methods. Applications should be received by 5pm on November 8, 2019. The documents may be submitted in hard copy to the address below, faxed (203-764-5653), or e-mailed. Please contact the CMS Disparity Methods team
should you have any questions. This work is under CMS contract number HHSM-75FCMC18D0042 and Task Order HHSM-75FCMC19F0001.
American Society on Aging Accepting
Poster Session Proposals for National Conference
The American Society on Aging (ASA) will hold its annual
Aging in America Conference in Atlanta, GA, from March 24–27, 2020. The theme
for the 2020 conference is “Aging 2020: Examining the Needs of Today’s Diverse
Older Adults.” Sessions will examine the social constructs of ageism, racism,
sexism and heterosexism, and provide an opportunity to individuals to
participate in the largest multidisciplinary conference covering issues of
aging and quality of life for older adults. Among 12 total tracks, “Health,
Wellness, and Care Transitions” may be of particular interest to LC sites.
While the call for presentation proposals has now closed, ASA is still
accepting poster session proposals, due ASAP.
American Geriatrics Society
Accepting Abstract Submissions for #AGS20
The
American Geriatrics Society (AGS) will host its Annual Scientific Meeting from
May 7–9, 2020, in Long Beach, CA. This conference aims to provide the latest
information on clinical care, research on aging, and innovative models of care
delivery while addressing the educational needs of geriatrics professionals
from all disciplines. AGS is accepting abstract reviewer
applications by November 18, 2019, and abstract submissions by December 3, 2019, at 11:59 PM
ET.
The Academy for Nutrition and Dietetics Accepting Session
Proposals for FNCE 2020
The
Academy will host FNCE 2020 in Indianapolis, IN, from October 17—20, 2020. Submissions for general education sessions, expert
panels, culinary demos, or novel formats and for pre-FNCE workshops are due by November 21, 2019, at 5:00 PM CT.
Clinical Nutrition Managers’ Dietetic Practice Group Accepting
Submissions to 2020 Symposium
The Clinical Nutrition Managers’ Dietetic Practice Group will hold its annual
symposium, “Staying the Course: Nutrition Leadership in a Rapidly Changing
Healthcare Environment,” in Portland, OR, from March 19—21, 2020. While the
symposium is typically only open to its members, the Quality and Process
Improvement Sub-Unit is accepting submissions of best practice quality or
process improvement projects to be recognized at the symposium. Up to 2 submissions
will be awarded a $750 stipend and complimentary registration for the 2020
Symposium. Poster submissions will
be accepted through November 25, 2019.
AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute
and Long-Term Care Medicine Accepting Poster Session Proposals for National
Conference
The American Medical Directors Association (AMDA)–The
Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine Annual Conference will offer
programming focused on the latest clinical developments in geriatric medicine,
best practices in medical direction, policy/regulatory updates, as well as
practical tools to help implement new ideas in your practice setting. This
year’s forum will take place from April 2—5, 2020, in Chicago, IL. The
Annual Conference Program Planning Subcommittee is now accepting poster
abstract submissions covering such topics rural
care issues and post-acute and long-term care models within the healthcare
system through November 26, 2019.
Society of Hospital Medicine Accepting Abstract Submissions
for Annual Conference
The
Society of Hospital Medicine will hold its annual conference, “Hospital Medicine
2020,” in
San Diego, CA from April 15—18, 2020. The conference will include many
educational and networking opportunities designed specifically for hospital
medicine professionals. Abstract submissions may be selected for a
poster, oral presentation or plenary session and are due by December 2,
2019.
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