Regulatory and Accreditation Compliance Solutions

Toolkits, processes and protocols to streamline improvements leading to enhanced performance on regulatory and accrediting agency surveys.

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	Drinking and Reproductive Health This is an intervention toolkit developed to help women’s health care clinicians prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders ( FASD). It is not a clinical diagnostic tool, but includes a spectrum of conditions that may occur as a result of prenatal alcohol exposure. This toolkit provides the clinician with strategies to reduce alcohol exposure to the dev eloping fetus. It consists of screening, education and counseling information for pregnant women that can be incorporated into routine care.
	Safe Injection Practices Toolkit The ASC Quality Collaboration has created this toolkit to improve the current administration of injections. Safe injection practices are critical to patient safety and also protect healthcare providers. There is a risk that Hepatitis C and hepatitis B viruses, as well as HIV can be spread from patient to patient without improvements in the injection practices. There are two toolkits – the “BASIC safe Injection Practices” and the “EXPANDED Safe Injection Practices." The toolkit is available as a web page and Word files, and requires a web browser and Microsoft Word to view them.
	Endoscope Reprocessing Toolkit The ASC Quality Collaboration has developed this toolkit of resources to assist healthcare facilities with implementing appropriate infection prevention policies and procedures for reprocessing endoscopic equipment. Adherence to correct infection prevention practices is critical to preventing the transmission of pathogens. The BASIC version of the toolkit includes only essential resources.
	Allied Health Recruitment and Training Toolkit The American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Academy of Ophthalmic Executives and the Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology provided the Allied Health Recruitment & Training Tool Kit, to help with hiring and retaining qualified ophthalmic medical personnel. This toolkit includes various resources to help practices become more effective in recruiting ophthalmic medical personnel, as well as guides for retaining them.
	MARR Long-Term Care Tool Kit The MARR Coalition designed this toolkit to help health care providers caring for patients in long-term care facilities. The toolkit is based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s -12 Steps to Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance Among Long-Term Care Residents, as well as their recommendations. This toolkit includes: Guides on how to break specific links in the chain of infection, practical information, protocols, policies, and tools which are designed to be easily modified for individual facility needs.
	ASHP Medication Reconciliation (Med Rec) Toolkit The ASHP developed the “ASHP Medication Reconciliation (Med Rec) Toolkit” to provide educational materials for its members in order to improve the transitions of care, recognized as critical steps in the management of patients. This toolkit will provide ASHP members with tools, references, and recommendations as well as ideas and examples of success stories and lessons learned to help with providing quality care for their patients and meeting the National Patient Safety Goal. The toolkit is available as a group of web pages and PDFs and requires a web browser and Adobe Reader to view them.
	Copy Functionality Toolkit This toolkit was created by the AHIMA in order to guide healthcare organizations, HIM professionals and (IT) professionals with handling copy technology in the EHR environment. This toolkit is a critical aid for developing policies, procedures and sound documentation integrity policies within their organization. The toolkit is available as a PDF, requiring Adobe Reader to view the document.
	Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Trigger Tool This toolkit contains potential AE triggers and instructions for collecting the data needed to measure the percentage of admissions with an AE. Identifying adverse events (AEs) and adverse drug events (ADEs) is an effective method for measuring the overall level of harm in a health care organization. The toolkit is available as a PDF, requiring Adobe Reader to view the document.
	Diabetes Guidelines Implementation Toolkit This toolkit is a guide for the process of implementing the ADA diabetes guidelines in a primary or community healthcare facility, in order to provide effective health care services and promote diabetes preventive behaviors. The toolkit will provide resources and template materials to guide physicians in the “evidence-based” best practices to care for diabetic patients. The toolkit is available as a PDF, requiring Adobe Reader to view the document.
	Quality Improvement Toolkit: Lung Cancer Care The VA Office of Quality and Performance prepared this toolkit for the purpose of improving the quality of care for lung cancer by addressing the continuum of lung cancer care: diagnosis, treatment, supportive care and end of life care. This toolkit has 25 evidence and/or guideline-based quality indicators and timeliness measures validated by VA expert panels. The toolkit is available as a PDF and web pages requires a web browser and Adobe Reader to view them.
	Baseline Assessment Tools for Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV The key users of this toolkit would be PMTCT managers and planners at the national, district and facility levels, as part of PMTCT start-up and/or expansion activities. The toolkit guides can be adapted to fit any country’s specific situation.
	Cobb/NMA Health Institute Immunization Toolkit Influenza is a very contagious respiratory tract disease and new influenza vaccines are continually created to protect healthcare workers and their patients from this disease. This toolkit presents the reasons and practices for why flu vaccinations are the best way to prevent flu and potentially serious complications. The toolkit is available as a PDF, requiring Adobe Reader to view the document.