Partnership for Community Health Recorded Events

In this TMF Quality Innovation Network video, you will see how to get the most value from browsing the Partnership for Community Health (PCH) website. You will see how to create an account on the website, enroll in the PCH project, explore the features on the PCH webpage and get access many valuable resources.

In this video, Kimberly Jungkind, a health care quality improvement specialist with the TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization, discusses how to reduce readmissions for patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Jungkind shares resources that support patients with CHF to better manage their condition, and she offers innovative ideas for helping patients with CHF buy and cook foods that are heart healthy.

On Jan. 25, TMF QIN-QIO specialists discuss strategies for reducing readmissions and increasing patient and family engagement. Also addressed: care transitions, the TMF Patient and Family Engagement Network and the Partnership for Community Health Network.

Learn how health literacy and cross-cultural communication can help patients better manage their chronic diseases. In this TMF Quality Innovation Network presentation, Erin Carlson, DrPH., MPH, shares practical guidelines and examples of health literacy education for provider-patient encounters. She provides tools and resources you can use to implement health literacy principles within your health care organization.

The national Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) standards were created in 2000 to advance health equity, improve quality and help eliminate health care disparities. One specific standard, the number eight standard, calls for health care institutions to provide easy-to-understand print and multimedia materials for patients, families and the community. This was never more important than during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more about this standard and how to apply it in your everyday practices.

This Oct. 4, 2022, recording closes out the TMF QIN-QIO series on Motivational Interviewing with developing a plan for change. COVID-19 vaccination decisions must be followed up with a plan that details goals, barriers and solutions, and breaks the action into small steps. TMF specialists provide practical tools to help accomplish this. Download the PDF handout at https://tmfnetworks.org/link?u=037704.

This Sept. 27, 2022, recording discusses how to manage resistance to change. You will learn skills to help others get unstuck, clarify values, explore the pros and cons of tough decisions, and create “change talk.” These easy-to-use tactics can help gain COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. Download the PDF handout at https://tmfnetworks.org/link?u=10bba4.

In this Sept. 20, 2022, recording, TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) specialists teach basic communication skills to quickly build trust and rapport, enabling you to understand motivation and all the factors making change difficult. Viewers also learn how to apply these concepts to conversations about COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. Download the PDF handout at https://tmfnetworks.org/link?u=fefffb.

Based on a presentation given on the topic, this video discusses the need to prepare for the flu season and to educate staff and patients about why it's important that they get their vaccines.

This Sept. 13, 2022, recorded event begins a four-session series focused on Motivational Interviewing. TMF QIN-QIO specialists share a variety of tools and strategies to help you evoke people’s priorities, experiences and ideas for behavior change, including exploring COVID-19 vaccine acceptance.

Learn about the population health initiatives at Jefferson Healthcare, a rural health system located in Port Townsend, Washington. The virtual event, held in November 2021,shared the strategy for population health and equity in a critical access hospital. An event recording, slides, and a Change Path document listing key takeaways and additional resources are available.

Listen to this recording with experts from the TMF Quality Innovation Network to learn how participating in the Partnership for Community Health project will help your organization implement lasting solutions to benefit your patients and staff, and aid the community at large.

Watch this video to learn how to implement lasting solutions to help your facility reduce avoidable readmissions.

The purpose of this video is to highlight health care quality improvement interventions hospitals can implement to help manage super utilizers in the health care system.

Listen to this TMF Quality Innovation Network webinar recording to learn about strategies to address opioid misuse within the elderly population using the Age-Friendly Health System framework.

Listen to this TMF Quality Innovation Network webinar recording to hear from Rolake Neba, PharmD, BCACP, assistant professor of Pharmacotherapy at The University of North Texas Health Science Center. Dr. Neba discusses how to establish a general approach to evaluate chronic pain in older adults. She also reviews common treatments for the management of chronic pain in older adults, and discusses risk mitigation strategies for opioid-related adverse effects.

Listen to this TMF Quality Innovation Network webinar recording with Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD, as he presents on the impact COVID-19 has had on the mental health of the older adult population. Dr. Aguilar-Gaxiola also discusses how to achieve health equity during the COVID-19 pandemic through community collaboration.

View this video featuring nationally recognized women's health physician Gloria Richard-Davis, MD, MBA, NCMP, FACOG, with the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences (UAMS), who addresses common fertility concerns with COVID-19 vaccines and why it is important to receive the vaccine.

Listen to this TMF Quality Innovation Networks' webinar recording, featuring Ylda Farré-Rigau, EdD, an American Red Cross Community Volunteer Leader and former professor at The University of Puerto Rico, to learn three steps for seniors to follow to be better prepared for emergencies.

Part of a webinar series on strategies for reducing readmissions in rural hospitals, this presentation focuses on emergency room visits and hospital readmissions related to adverse drug events

Part of a webinar series on strategies for reducing readmissions in rural hospitals, this presentation focuses on improving care coordination to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions

Part of a webinar series on strategies for reducing readmissions in rural hospitals, this presentation focuses on engaging patients in self-management of their health and chronic conditions

Loneliness was a mental health issue prior to COVID-19. The pandemic has exacerbated and contributed to increased isolation. During this webinar, attendees will explore and discuss this issue through a health equity lens.

Listen to this TMF Quality Innovation Network webinar recording to hear from Octavio N. Martinez, Jr, MD, executive director of The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at The University of Texas Austin, and an appointed member of the federal COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. Dr. Martinez identifies deep-seated inequities in health care and how COVID-19 has amplified social and economic factors that contribute to poor health outcomes.

Listen to this final webinar in the Let's Dive series to learn how health care quality improvement is a method to help your organization incorporate evidence-based best practices into your workflow to create consistent, repeatable and dependable processes.

Listen to this webinar recording with quality improvement specialists with the TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization's Community Coalitions team as they discuss the importance of collecting data and how it can help health care professionals with their quality improvement efforts.

Listen to this webinar recording with quality improvement specialists with the TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization's Community Coalitions team as they discuss tools and resources to help health care professionals with their quality improvement efforts.

Listen to this recording with experts from the TMF Quality Innovation Network to learn how joining a community coalition in your area can help your health care organization, facility or practice reduce health care disparities and improve the quality of care among vulnerable populations and rural communities.

Listen to this recording with experts from the TMF Quality Innovation Network to learn how participating in the Health Care Quality Community Coalitions project will help your organization implement lasting solutions to benefit your patients and staff, and aid the community at large.

Listen to this recording with experts from the TMF Quality Innovation Network to learn how participating in the Partnership for Community Health project will help your organization implement lasting solutions to benefit your patients and staff, and aid the community at large. In Spanish.