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Self-Help, Healthcare, Social and Cultural Education
TeamSTEPPS® stands for Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety.
TeamSTEPPS® is:
Training Focused for Long Term Care (LTC):
Antibiotics – Train the Trainer series:
Exploring antibiotics and their role in bacterial infections
Antibiotic resistance: How it happens and strategies to decrease the spread of resistance
Clostridium difficile Part One: Clinical Overview (part one – clinical overview)
Clostridium difficile (Part Two: Strategies to Prevent, Track, and Monitor C. difficile)
Training Focused for Facilities:
COVID-19 StAT Learning Series for Hospitals
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), with input from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other stakeholders, has developed the COVID-19 StAT Learning Series for Hospitals. StAT stands for Standards, Approaches and Tactics for COVID-19 Infection Control & Prevention. This online, mobile-friendly, self-paced training is intended for hospital infection control leaders, frontline hospital staff and hospital administrators.
With the COVID-19 StAT Learning Series for Hospitals, you will find the latest tools and techniques, along with refreshed best practices for a new era of infection prevention and control.
Each self-paced learning module is approximately 15 minutes long. Take the COVID-19 StAT Self-Assessment to determine which trainings are right for you.
Review Your QPP Registration and Data
Be ready! If you are already registered have the security Official/Staff person log-in. If you aren’t sure who has access, create a system for your office so the following information is handy; gather the following:
It’s handy to have the Provider Enumeration Date and the last Update. As a member, you have access to an EXCEL workbook, ASK Us!
This site outlines the steps to connect an Organization (like a practice, QCDR/Registry, or an APM Entity) and how to get the Security Official or Staff User role you need, and sign In. If you have never registered, start here, a User Guide will be the tool needed. Once you are registered you will be redirected to HARP (this can take up to 15 min.)
Resources that speak to Timelines and Important Deadlines
See how your facility will compare with other nursing homes!
Just as LTC learned where and how to access information and tools, CMS retired the site in Dec. 2020. The new site, walks the user through the steps in retrieving data sets for specific data collection periods.
It’s handy to have tools! Visit our Education and Tools section or let us know how we can help!