The Association for Community Health Improvement’s Community Health Assessment (CHA) Toolkit offers a nine-step pathway for conducting a CHA and developing implementation strategies. Click on the icon for each step to read about that part of the process.

Beginning in 2020 as a part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Quality Improvement Contract (HQIC), the Eastern US Quality Improvement Collaborative (EQIC) initiative supports participating hospitals' improvement work with education, tools, resources and direct project management support. This EQIC pages offers information, tools, resources, webinars and focus areas targeting preventable hospital readmissions.

This toolkit from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can help planners, public health professionals, and the general public include health in the community planning process. Developed in partnership between the American Planning Association’s Planning and Community Health Research Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthy Community Design Initiative.

This package includes a postcard in both English and Spanish to give to patients after hospitalization to schedule future appointments. The package also includes instructions for providers to effectively use the postcard.

The TMF Quality Innovation Network, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, designed this change package to provide strategies to improve the quality of care transitions.

The TMF Quality Innovation Network developed this document to assist health care professionals to increase patient safety by reducing C. diff rates and improving antibiotic stewardship in health care facilities serving high-risk fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries.

One in four Americans experiences a behavioral health illness or substance abuse disorder annually, and the majority of these people have comorbid physical health conditions. This guide explains the value of integrating physician and behavioral health services and the importance of measuring these efforts.

When transferring a patient, this checklist can be used between a patient’s current and receiving caregiver.

When transferring a patient, this checklist can be used between a patient’s current and receiving caregiver.

This workbook is designed to help patients with diabetes better manage their condition. Patients can take this workbook with them to their doctor's appointments and use it to help guide a conversation with their physician(s) to learn how to better manage their condition and over health.

Listen to this podcast with Clifford Moy, MD, the behavioral health medical director at TMF Health Quality Institute and Dr. Paul Milligan, a clinical pharmacist, as they discuss multimodal pain management.

Listen to this podcast with Clifford Moy, MD, the behavioral health medical director at TMF Health Quality Institute and Dr. Paul Milligan, a clinical pharmacist, as they discuss opioid-induced respiratory depression.

Listen to this podcast with Clifford Moy, MD, the behavioral health medical director at TMF Health Quality Institute and Dr. Paul Milligan, a clinical pharmacist, as they discuss discuss opioid safety in nursing home residents.

Use this workbook to begin identifying an area for improvement and developing a team to address the improvement.

This study examined whether socio-demographic and -economic factors influence 30-day readmissions for conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumonia, acute myocardial infarction and heart failure.

Learn about the Transitional Care Model, a nursing-led program pioneered at The University of Pennsylvania, with a focus on improving the health outcomes of older adults with complex health care needs while efficiently using resources and reducing costs.

This handout provides nurses a step-by-step guide on how to teach congestive heart failure patients to take certain medications. This document is in Spanish suitable for a Puerto Rican audience.