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CDC on Health Equity

The CDC defines health disparities as "preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by populations that have been disadvantaged by their social or economic status, geographic location and environment".

Across the country, people in some racial and ethnic minority groups experience higher rates of poor health and disease for a range of health conditions, including diabetes, hypertension, obesity, asthma, heart disease, cancer and preterm birth, when compared to their White counterparts. For example, the average life expectancy among Black or African American people in the United States is four years lower than that of White people. These disparities sometimes persist even when accounting for other demographic and socioeconomic factors, such as age or income.

Communities can prevent health disparities when community- and faith-based organizations, employers, health care systems and providers, public health agencies and policymakers work together to develop policies, programs and systems based on a health equity framework and community needs.

Social Determinants of Health or Social Drivers of Health (SDOH) are the conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, play and worship that affect a wide range of health risks and outcomes. Long-standing inequities in six key areas of SDOH are interrelated and influence a wide range of health and quality-of-life risks and outcomes. Examining these layered health and social inequities can help us better understand how to promote health equity and improve health outcomes.

KHC Office Hours

KHC Webinar Series

2025 KHC Office Hours Series

An Educational Series for Clinics and Hospitals

Target Audience: Clinicians, Quality Managers, Hospital and Leaders, Pharmacists, Community Health Workers and Nurses

Register for the full series at the link below:

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FiVP6bDGQaa1rJviAWI8eg

 

January 22           Topic TBD
February 26           Finding Success in Alternative Payment Models
March 26           Topic TBD
April 23           Topic TBD
May 28           Topic TBD
June 25           Topic TBD
July 23           Topic TBD
September 24           Topic TBD
October 22           Topic TBD
 
(There will be no Office Hours in August, September, November or December in 2025)

Community Health Worker Teams Initiative

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 Community Health Worker

Teams Initiative
Overview
The Kansas Healthcare Collaborative (KHC), in partnership with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), worked with clinics interested in embedding teams of Community Health Workers (CHW) at clinics in any county in Kansas.
 
Background: 
Recent research shows employing CHWs can:
  1. Improve health outcomes
  2. Increase patient satisfaction
  3. Reduce costs
  4. Reduce health disparities.
CHW teams will work to provide greater access to COVID 19 prevention and response while addressing chronic diseases and access to social determinants of health that exacerbate COVID 19.
 
Community Health Workers

A CHW is a frontliner worker that is a trusted member of the community in which they work. They are a trusted liaison to link individuals with services to improve health quality. A CHW is a resource to provide education, support and advocacy between the health system, social services, and community resources.

Eligibility: The ideal clinics must have an innovative spirit.  Having a National Diabetes Prevention Program in place is preferred but not required. 
 
Clinic Benefits
  • Funding for up to (5) fulltime staff positions dedicated 100% to the team
    • One Program Director, Health Navigator, Home Health Nurse
    • Two Community Health Workers
  • KDHE will consider teams of fewer than five team members for communities who may not be able to support a five-person team
  • Funding to cover necessary supplies, training, and travel for staff
  • Technical support from KHC and KDHE Staff to establish clinic workflow, data collection, and supplemental training
  • Training to support CHWs, delivery of National Diabetes Prevention and Healthy Heart Ambassador, Self-Monitored Blood Pressure Program scheduled as soon as CHW Teams are hired.
  • Sustainability planning and support
Clinic Responsibilities
  • Integration of the CHW team into the clinic workflow
  • Participation in COVID 19 prevention and response events in the community
  • Implementation of National Diabetes Prevention Program and Healthy Heart Ambassador, Self-Monitored Blood Pressure Program
  • Space for team to meet with patients and conduct classes
  • Completion of necessary data reporting and success stories collection including requested demographic information on program participants
  • Regular meetings with KHC and KDHE staff for ongoing technical assistance and quality improvement
  • Clinics are expected to begin setting up CHW team immediately upon acceptance of offer.
Resources
KDHE Community Health Worker Teams
 
Kansas CHW Coalition
 
CDC Community Health Workers 

Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Prevention

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Improving the Health of Americans

through the Prevention and Management

of Diabetes, Heart Disease and Stroke
Overview
More than 34 million American have diabetes. Another 88 million US adults,1 in 3, have prediabetes, and 90% of them do not know they have it. A person with prediabetes is at high risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
 
Project Background
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative is continuing to partner with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s Bureau of Health Promotion to implement clinical strategies for management and prevention of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and stroke.
 
Eligibility
In collaboration with KDHE, KHC is looking to provide assistance to additional providers/health systems interested improving chronic conditions.   Priority will be given to those clinics who serve high priority or underserved populations.
 
Clinic Responsibilities
  • Commitment to implementing evidence-based strategies, reviewing/reporting data monthly and meeting monthly (virtually or in person) with a member of the KHC team to review progress towards goals.
  • Provide baseline data covering at least one year prior to the start of the project.
  • Participate in annual assessment(s) to monitor clinics progress on improving outcomes, planning and implementation of strategies.
  • Provide data monthly as appropriate for project (Statin Therapy, Diabetes A1c Poor Control, Controlling High Blood Pressure).
  • Demonstration of outcomes/interventions. Ex. story board (templates provided)
  • Barring unforeseen circumstances, the clinic should not plan to change their EMR systems or ownership for at least a year. If they are, how they will document the plan to continue participation during this time is needed.
KHC Responsibilities
  1. Assigned a dedicated Quality Improvement Advisory QIA) to be available to provide consultation services to clinic and be available to meet (virtually or in person) at least monthly with provider/health system.
  2. Assess participating clinical practices workflows, PDSA ‘s and related QI tools
  3. Complete annual clinic assessments, collection of monthly data and review of follow-up reports.
  4. Serve as a liaison between the clinic and KDHE in coordinating resources available to clinics.

For more information about these programs or to enroll contact Jenni Peters at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Resources
KDHE Chronic Disease
 
CDC Diabetes
 
CDC Prediabetes
 
CDC Heart Disease Tools and Training
 
Million Hearts

Zero Suicide in Health Systems Prevention Initiative

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 Zero Suicide in Health Systems

Prevention Initiative
Overview
The Kansas Healthcare Collaborative (KHC), in partnership with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), is soliciting applications from clinics interested in implementing suicide prevention. A process for that includes assessment, referral to treatment and continuity of care for individuals at risk for suicide or suicidal behaviors.
 
Background
Recent research shows primary care providers see individuals that die by suicide twice as often as mental health providers. An estimated 45% of individuals that died by suicide were seen the month prior to their death by a primary care provider. Primary care providers are most likely to see a patient at risk of suicide and by identifying patients at risk and referring to specialty treatment death by suicide can be prevented.
 

Eligibility: The ideal clinic will have an innovative spirit. Having a Depression screening process in place is preferrable but not necessary.

Clinic Benefits
  • 1 year Quality Improvement Project
  • Technical support from KHC and KDHE Staff to establish clinic workflow, data collection, and supplemental training
  • Sustainability planning and support
Clinic Responsibilities
  • Implement process for identification and referral to specialty treatment for individuals at risk for suicide/suicidal behaviors using the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) tool
  • Completion of necessary data reporting and success stories collection including requested demographic information on program participants
  • Monthly meetings with KHC and KDHE staff for ongoing technical assistance and quality improvement
For more information email info@khconline or call (785) 235-0763.
 
Resources
KDHE Zero Suicide in Health Systems 
 
CDC Suicide Prevention
 
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
 
 
 
 

COPIC Care Transitions Initiative

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 Leveraging HIE to Reduce Risk

in Care Transitions

A targeted intervention for Clinics and Hospitals to improve health outcomes with care transitions

Background
In 2023, many Kansas clinics and hospitals across the state have implemented the KHIN dashboard and acute alert technology. Practical workflow applications and implementation strategies are needed to support data-driven care management processes for high-risk patients.
 

KHC received a grant to conduct a care transition initiative through March 2024. This grant provides opportunities for clinics and facilities to explore how the KHIN Health Information Exchange (HIE) technology can help bridge gaps in care for high-risk patients.

Opportunity
KHC recruited health systems to work on improving care transitions by incorporating the KHIN/KONZA HQ Insights Dashboard and establishing a collaborative relationship between the clinic and hospital. Eligible participants will currently have the KHIN interface and dashboard access. With successful participation in the program, organizations will receive a small stipend from KHC. Other facilities affiliated with participating organizations that have access to the KHIN dashboard technology may also participate.

 

Why participate:
  • Learn ways to optimize use of your facility’s KHIN/KONZA dashboard and alerting technology.
  • Test and implement data-driven strategies for identifying your organization’s high-risk patients.
  • Review and strengthen workflows with health care partners.
  • Support your organization’s 2023 goals for improving care transitions, reducing readmissions, improving interoperability, and advancing community partnerships.
Participating facilities:
  1. Met with advisor for orientation and support. Complete a brief pre- and post-assessment of current practices.
  2. Received virtual training for how to use the KHIN dashboard and acute alerts for high-risk patients.
  3. Identified patients eligible for Transitional Care Management by using the KHIN Dashboard.
  4. Tested a workflow change that incorporates use of KHIN technology and improved care transitions.
  5. Established collaborative workflow between clinics and hospitals.
  6. Tracked follow-up alerts and/or care transitions for identified patients through March 2024.

The KHC Care Transition Initiative was conducted by the Kansas Healthcare Collaborative in partnership with Kansas Health Information Network and with grant funding from the COPIC Medical Foundation.

For more information, contact KHC at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or
call (785) 235-0763.

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Chronic Care Management resources

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KHC Convenes, with Dr. Tom Evans of IHC

Our first KHC Convenes session features Tom Evans, MD, President and CEO of the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative (IHC).

KHC has partnered with IHC for more than 10 years, first on the Practice Transformation Network and currently on the Compass HQIC initiative, serving as the largest hospital quality and patient safety network in Kansas. In this session, “Innovation Out of Disruption,” Dr. Evans discusses how the pandemic has presented providers with a rare opportunity to accelerate change. He offers a three-legged stool approach for mindfully approaching change that will be sustainable over time.

 

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Summit on Quality 2021


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We hope you will join us next May for the 13th Summit on Quality.

In the meantime, KHC offers a number of other educational opportunities, including a new series called "KHC Convenes," staring in June. For updates one this and other events, subscribe to our newsletter to receive the latest updates.

 

Patient and Family Engagement

Hospitals across the state and nation have made substantial progress in recent years incorporating patient and family engagement (PFE) as part of their organizational approach to attaining higher levels of patient satisfaction and outcomes.

Still, many hospitals are uncertain about how to envision or to optimize the role of PFE in safety and quality improvement design and seek support in learning and navigating the process.

Helpful resources have been compiled through the CMS Partnership for Patients and recently completed Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (HIIN).  Contact KHC (785-235-0763) for additional information and individualized guidance.

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KDHE-KHC Learning Action Network

KDHE-KHC Learning Action Network

Basic Infection Prevention Learning Series
for the Ambulatory Care Setting

The statewide Learning Action Network (LAN) for the outpatient setting features basic infection prevention training for frontline health care workers and office staff. This collaborative conducted by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) in partnership with KHC features nine one-hour sessions focused on building knowledge and confidence in improving infection prevention practices. There is no cost to participate. Recordings of each session are available below.

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Partnerships

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Partner with the Kansas Healthcare Collaborative

The Kansas Healthcare Collaborative (KHC) was founded in partnership.

In 2008, the Kansas Medical Society and the Kansas Hospital Association, Kansas’ statewide associations for hospitals and for physicians, came together to form what they envisioned would become THE trusted source for relevant and meaningful health care quality improvement education, evaluation, and measurement.

Through this rare partnership, KHC has for more than a decade proudly served 120+ Kansas hospitals and 1,000+ providers at 200+ clinics across the state—with hands-on technical assistance, education, and other resources tailored to each provider’s unique needs to best serve their patients and community.

KHC is continually seeking new partnership opportunities as health systems and the quality improvement landscape evolve. We are interested in cultivating partnerships that support common goals that improve the health of Kansans.

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KHC recognition of work in the AHA Performance Improvement Network

Congratulations on your work over these last four years in the AHA Performance Improvement Network (also known as the HIIN, or Hospital Improvement Innovation Network)! On behalf of the Kansas Health Collaborative, the Kansas Hospital Association, and the Kansas Medical Society, we are proud to have been your partner in this important work in patient safety and quality improvement.

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Education Archive - By Topic

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Advance Care Planning

Adverse Drug Events

Age-Friendly Health Care

Antimicrobial Stewardship

Culture of Safety

Data

Electronic Case Reporting

Fall Prevention

Hand Hygiene

Health Equity/Disparities

Integrated Care/Behavioral Health

KHC Office Hours

Opioids

Patient and Family Engagement

Pressure Injuries

Project Management

Radiology

Readmissions

Sepsis

Workplace Violence

 
Advance Care Planning

 

Adverse Drug Events

 
Age-Friendly Health Care

 

Antimicrobial Stewardship

Culture of Safety

  • Collaborative Just Culture Webinar - Flipping the Iceberg: Seeing, Understanding, and Managing Risk: An Evidence-Producing Standard | Webinar Recording | Handouts (pdf) |
  • High Reliability Organizing: A High Priority for Hospitals (7/24/24) | Webinar Recording | Handouts (pdf) | ARHQ Survey 2.0 Users Guide (pdf) | SOPS Hospital Survey 2.0 (pdf)
  • Bringing Fun to Patient Safety (4/24/2019) Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (topic begins slide #9)
  • Transforming Cultures for Safety (8/2/2017)
    Regional webinar by South Central HIINergy Partners
    Webinar recording unavailable  | Webinar handout  |  Bedside shift report tools (pdf)
  • Spotlight on Leadership in Quality  (8/2/2017)
    Featuring Coffeyville Regional Medical Center, a recipient of the 2017 Leadership in Quality Award of Merit
    Webinar recording  | Webinar handout (topic begins slide #14)
  • The UP Campaign:  UP Your Game with HIIN with a focus on Get UP  (3/22/2017)
    Regional webinar by South Central HIINergy Partners
    Featuring Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital, St. Louis, MO
    Webinar recording unavailable  | Webinar handout (topic begins slide #11)
  • The Power of Storytelling (2/27/2017)
    Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (topic begins slide #16)
  • Getting Started in HIIN  (1/25/2017)
    Regional webinar by South Central HIINergy Partners
    Featuring Jefferson Regional Medical Center, Pine Bluff, AR
    Webinar recording unavailable  | Webinar handout (topic on slides #19-28)

 

Data

  • KHC Office Hours: Deep Dive Into KHIN (3/23/2022)
    Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (pdf)
  • Reducing burden - Measures to be removed from HEN 1.0, HEN 2.0 and HIIN measure sets in QHi (6/26/2019)
    Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (topic begins slide #11)  |  QHi Memorandum
  • Bringing the Board to Quality (5/23/2018)
    Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (topic begins slide #30)
  • Introducing the HRET HIINprovement Calculator, Connecting Patient Safety Initiatives with Prevention of Harms and Cost (4/26/2017)
    Featuring hospital sharing by Labette Health, Morris County Hospital and Satanta District Hospital
    Transcript  |  Webinar handout (topic begins slide #10)

 

Electronic Case Reporting

Electronic Case Reporting 101 (8/4/2021)
Webinar recording |  Webinar handout

Fall Prevention

Hand Hygiene

Health Equity/Disparities

  

Integrated Care/Behavioral Health

 

KHC Office Hours

  • KHC Office Hours for Clinics:  Kansas Quitline - Resources and No-cost Opportunities for Your Patients (2/22/2023)Webinar Webinar Recording | Handouts (pdf)
  • KHC Office Hours for HQIC Hospitals:  What's New in HQIC for 2023? (1/25/2023) Webinar Recording | Handouts

 

Opioids

 

Patient and Family Engagement

KHC PFAC Orientation Video Series Playlist for Patient and Family Advisors - This playlist is part of a four-part training series designed for use by hospitals as part of a comprehensive training and orientation program for patient and family advisors.

Video #1: PFAs and the Changing Culture of Healthcare

Video #2: Partnering Across the Organization

Video #3: Communicating Effectively as a PFA

Video #4 Effectively Sharing Your Story

  • Improving Care of the Sepsis Patient throughPatient and Family Engagement (4/27/2022)
    Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (pdf)
  • Don't forget your PFAC: Strategies for engaging PFAs during times of pandemic (6/24/2020)
    Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (topic begins slide #13)
  • PFE - Beyond the Metrics: Implementing PFE Strategies that Improve Quality and Safety (7/24/2019)
    Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (topic begins slide #22) |  Cross-cutting strategies
  • Patient and Family Advisor Programs (2/28/2018)
    Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (topic begins slide #35, page 18)
  • Patient and Family Engagement:  Courting Patients and Families  (5/24/2017)
    Regional webinar by South Central HIINergy Partners
    Webinar recording not available |  Webinar handout (topic begins slide #12)
  • Kick-off of Kansas PFAC Collaborative (Cohort 3)  (1/31/2017)
    Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (topic begins slide #4)

 

Pressure Injuries

 

Project Management

  • Improve Anything in Six Meetings or Less
    This session is for improvement leaders who are looking for an effective solution for improvement teams to implement change quickly. Stephanie Sobczak, MS, MBA, project manager of UW Health, Madison, Wisc., shares a structured approach which marries elements of project management along with established improvement methods.
    Webinar recording (60 min.)  |  Presentation handout  |  Implementation Guide  |  Improve Anything templates

 

Radiology

Readmissions

Sepsis

Workplace Violence

  • KHA De-escalation Webinar Series (Part 1 of 3) (10/22/2019)
    Sticks and Stones and Getting Along:  Controlling Conflict with Communication
    Webinar recording (87 min.)  |  Webinar handout
  • KHA De-escalation Webinar Series (Part 2 of 3) (11/12/2019)
    All Patients Are Unique (Just Some More than Others)
    Webinar recording (80 min.)  |  Webinar handout
  • KHA De-escalation Webinar Series (Part 1 of 3) (12/10/2019)
    S E C U R I T Y:  Who is Responsible?  (Hint:  It's Someone You Know)
    Webinar recording (87 min.)  |  Webinar handout

 

Provider-led Initiatives

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KHC’s Quality Improvement Advisors (QIAs) are available to work with providers and clinics across Kansas, with support tailored to your practice’s needs.

   
   

The KHC team has a depth and breadth of skills at your service, with expertise in data and reporting to meet quality measures, certifications in Patient-Centered Medical Homes, epidemiology and public health, nursing, and practice management.

Quality improvement and patient safety efforts require a high level of commitment and energy over time—but the rewards for the patient and value of care are significant and lasting.

For more information, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call (785) 235-0763.

 

Current KHC Initiatives:

 



 

1815/1817 CDC|KDHE Assessment

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Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH)

The terms medical home, patient centered medical home, health home, and other versions are often used interchangeably to refer to models for care management or primary care delivery.

While these terms share common origins and underlying concepts, it can be confusing to understand how specific programs differ from one another. The Kansas Healthcare Collaborative developed a white paper, “Medical Home Concept Versus Medicaid Health Home,” to help health care providers and other stakeholders understand the similarities and differences between two models currently being implemented in Kansas, the Medicaid Health Home and the Patient Centered Medical Home.

→ The KHC team includes Quality Improvement Advisors that are trained and Certified Content Experts in the Patient Centered Medical Home model. They are available to assist Kansas practices interested in or currently working toward becoming a Patient Centered Medical Home. For more information, please contact KHC Program Director Rosanne Rutkowski at (785) 235-0763 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Patient Centered Medical Home

The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a promising approach to improving primary care delivery. The PCMH aims to improve quality, reduce cost, and improve the experience of patients, caregivers, and health care professionals.

As defined by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the medical home encompasses five functions and attributes:

1. Comprehensive Care

The primary care medical home is accountable for meeting the large majority of each patient’s physical and mental health care needs, including prevention and wellness, acute care, and chronic care. Providing comprehensive care requires a team of care providers. This team might include physicians, advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, nutritionists, social workers, educators, and care coordinators. Although some medical home practices may bring together large and diverse teams of care providers to meet the needs of their patients, many others, including smaller practices, will build virtual teams linking themselves and their patients to providers and services in their communities.

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2. Patient-Centered

The primary care medical home provides health care that is relationship-based with an orientation toward the whole person. Partnering with patients and their families requires understanding and respecting each patient’s unique needs, culture, values, and preferences. The medical home practice actively supports patients in learning to manage and organize their own care at the level the patient chooses. Recognizing that patients and families are core members of the care team, medical home practices ensure that they are fully informed partners in establishing care plans.

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3. Coordinated Care

The primary care medical home coordinates care across all elements of the broader health care system, including specialty care, hospitals, home health care, and community services and supports. Such coordination is particularly critical during transitions between sites of care, such as when patients are being discharged from the hospital. Medical home practices also excel at building clear and open communication among patients and families, the medical home, and members of the broader care team.

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4. Accessible Services

The primary care medical home delivers accessible services with shorter waiting times for urgent needs, enhanced in-person hours, around-the-clock telephone or electronic access to a member of the care team, and alternative methods of communication such as email and telephone care. The medical home practice is responsive to patients’ preferences regarding access.

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5. Quality and Safety

The primary care medical home demonstrates a commitment to quality and quality improvement by ongoing engagement in activities such as using evidence-based medicine and clinical decision-support tools to guide shared decision making with patients and families, engaging in performance measurement and improvement, measuring and responding to patient experiences and patient satisfaction, and practicing population health management. Sharing robust quality and safety data and improvement activities publicly is also an important marker of a system-level commitment to quality.

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Education Archive - By Date

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2024
November 5 - Collaborative Just Culture Webinar - Flipping the Iceberg: Seeing, Understanding, and Managing Risk: An Evidence-Producing Standard | Webinar Recording | Handouts (pdf) |
October 23 — KHC Office Hours - What's New with KHC's Quality Improvement initiatives and Applying Area-based Measures Data in Your Improvement Efforts | Webinar Recording | Handouts (pdf) | KHC Program Overview Fall 2024 (pdf) | 
July 24 — KHC Office Hours - High Reliability Organizing: A High Priority for Hospitals | Webinar Recording | Handouts (pdf) | ARHQ Survey 2.0 Users Guide (pdf) | SOPS Hospital Survey 2.0 (pdf)
June 26 — KHC Office Hours Advanced Directives are for the Living – Improving Workflows in Your Organization  | Webinar Recording | Handouts (pdf)
June 18 — Session #3 - KHC KDHE NHSN AUR Surveillance Measure under the CMS PI Program | Webinar Recording  | Medici_by_Harris_OnPoint-KHC_KDHE_Webinar-2024-0618.pdf
June 4 — Session #2 - KHC KDHE NHSN AUR Surveillance Measure under the CMS PI Program Webinar Recording | PipelineRX Special Pricing Info (pdf) | PipelineRX Reporting Summary (pdf)
May 21 — Session #1 - KHC KDHE NHSN AUR Surveillance Measure under the CMS PI Program Webinar Recording  | Handouts (pdf) | Q&A Document (pdf)
April 30 — KHC KFMC Addressing SDOH in Rural Kansas Communities
April 24 — KHC Office Hours - Health Care Apprenticeship as a Workforce Strategy
March 27 — KHC Office Hours - Sepsis Abstraction - How do you measure up?
February 28 — KHC Office Hours - The Kansas Medicaid Presumptive Eligibility Program
February 15  — Updates on Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) Designations Featuring KDHE’s Office of Primary Care & Rural Health Webinar Recording | Handouts (pdf) | Navigating Rural Health Flyer (pdf) | RHIG Flyer (pdf) | HPSAs Proposed for Withdrawl (Excel)
January 24 — KHC Office Hours - HQIC Priorities to Improve Star Ratings in 2024
 
2023
 
January 25 — KHC Office Hours for HQIC Hospitals - What's New in HQIC for 2023?
February 22 — KHC Office Hours for Clinics - Kansas Quitline - Resources and No-cost Opportunities for Your Patients
March 22 — KHC Office Hours for HQIC Hospitals - It's All About Data - 
April 5 — Syndromic Antimicrobial Stewardship: Focused Initiatives for the Prevention and Treatment of UTI
April 26 — KHC Office Hours for Clinics
May 3 - Syndromic Antimicrobial Stewardship: Focused Antibiotic Stewardship Initiatives for Wounds, Skin and Soft Tissue Infections 
May 24 — KHC Office Hours for HQIC Hospitals - It's All About Data Part II - Applying HEOA Concepts
June 7 - Syndromic Antimicrobial Stewardship: Focused Antibiotic Stewardship Initiatives for Upper and Lower Respiratory Infections
June 28 — KHC Office Hours for Clinics - Improving Cardiac Outcomes through Cardiac Rehabiliation Programs
July 12 - Syndromic Antimicrobial Stewardship: Focused Antibiotic Stewardship Initiatives Directed Towards Sepsis
July 26 — KHC Office Hours for HQIC Hospitals
August 2 - Syndromic Antimicrobial Stewardship: Focused Antibiotic Stewardship Initiatives Directed Towards Shorter Courses and Reducing Prophylactic Antimicrobial Use
September 27 — KHC Office Hours for HQIC Hospitals - Coding for Sepsis and Beyond
October 25 — KHC Office Hours for Clinics - Project Firstline Infection Prevention and Control  Webinar Recording | Handouts (pdf)
November 15 - USAAW Week - The Other Side of Stewardship: Antibiotic Roots in the Midwest Webinar Recording | Handouts (pdf)
 
2022

Antibiotic Use and Resistance in Kansas: MIght we be doing more harm than good? (11/17/2022)
Webinar Recording |  Handouts

Operationalizing Health Equity Practices, with Kellie Goodson, Part 3 of 3 (10/26/2022)
Webinar recording | Handout (pdf)

Operationalizing Health Equity Practices, with Kellie Goodson, Part 2 of 3 (9/28/2022)
Webinar recording | Webinar handout (pdf) | REAL Data Stratification template | "Understanding Health Equity through Data Disaggregation"

Operationalizing Health Equity Practices, with Kellie Goodson, Part 1 of 3 (8/24/2022)
Webinar recording | Webinar handout | Homework spreadsheet

Summit on Quality — 2022 (8/19/2022)
Event recordings to be posted

Antibiotic Stewardship: Practical Implementation for Kansas Hospitals — Session #4 (7/7/2022)
Webinar recording |  Webinar handout (pdf)

KHC Office Hours: Sepsis — Reaching and Engaging Physicians, with Dr. Steven Simpson (6/22/2022)
Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (pdf) | Webinar resource (pdf)

Antibiotic Stewardship: Practical Implementation for Kansas Hospitals — Session #3 (6/2/2022)
Webinar recording | Webinar breakout session on the basics |  Webinar handout (pdf)

KHC Office Hours: Hospital sharing on improving sepsis bundle compliance (5/25/2022)
Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (pdf)

Antibiotic Stewardship: Practical Implementation for Kansas Hospitals — Session #2 (5/5/2022)
Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (pdf)

KHC Office Hours: Improving Care of the Sepsis Patient throughPatient and Family Engagement (4/27/2022)
Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (pdf)

Antibiotic Stewardship: Practical Implementation for Kansas Hospitals — Session #1 (4/7/2022)
Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (pdf)

KHC Office Hours: Deep Dive Into KHIN (3/23/2022)
Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (pdf)

KHC Office Hours: Strategies for Effective Care Coordination (2/23/2022)
Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (pdf) | Community Care Pathway Mapping Tool (xlsx)

KHC Office Hours: Creating a Bright Spot: Collaboration Across the Continuum (1/26/2022)
Webinar recording |  Webinar handout (pdf)

2021

KHC Office Hours: Antibiotic Stewardship -- Practical Implementation for Kansas Facilities (11/24/2021)
Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (pdf)

 

KHC Office Hours: Hospital Strategies to Reduce Opioid Misuse (10/27/2021)
Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (pdf) | Additional handouts (zip)

 

KHC Office Hours: Beyond the Sepsis Bundles (9/22/2021)
Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (pdf) 


KHC Office Hours: Focus on Fall Prevention (8/25/2021)
Webinar recording  |  Webinar handout (pdf) 

 

KHC Office Hours: Compass HQIC Program Update (8/25/2021)

 

Electronic Case Reporting 101 (8/4/2021)

 

KHC Office Hours: Compass HQIC Program Update (7/28/2021)


March 24, 2021 - KHC Webinar
Advance Care Planning III
Part 3 of a 3-part series co-sponsored by KHC, the Health Quality Innovation Network, and KFMC Health Improvement Partners.
   * John G. Carney, MEd, President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Practical Bioethics
   * Maria Fox, DNP, MSN, BSN, APRN-CNS, ACPHN, CCRN, Clinical Ethics Affiliate, Center for Practical Bioethics
   * Matthew Pjecha, Director of Technology and Research Associate and TPOPP Coordinator, Center for Practical Bioethics

January 27, 2021 - KHC Webinar
Advance Care Planning II
Part 2 of a 3-part series co-sponsored by KHC, the Health Quality Innovation Network, and KFMC Health Improvement Partners.
   * John G. Carney, MEd, President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Practical Bioethics
   * Maria Fox, DNP, MSN, BSN, APRN-CNS, ACPHN, CCRN, Clinical Ethics Affiliate, Center for Practical Bioethics


2020

November 18, 2020 - KHC Monthly Webinar
Lung Cancer Screening
This is a critical topic as lung cancer kills more people than the next 4 types of cancer combined. While LCS with low-dose CT (LDCT) can reduce lung cancer mortality by 20% or more, only a small percentage of patients at high-risk for this disease are being screened.

October 28, 2020 - KHC Monthly Webinar
Improve Anything in Six Meetings or Less
This session is for improvement leaders who are looking for an effective solution for improvement teams to implement change quickly. Stephanie Sobczak, MS, MBA, project manager of UW Health, Madison, Wisc., shares a structured approach which marries elements of project management along with established improvement methods.

September 23, 2020 - KHC Monthly Webinar
Advance Care Planning I
Part 1 of a 3-part series co-sponsored by KHC, the Health Quality Innovation Network, and Kansas Foundation for Medical Care
   * John G. Carney, MEd, President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Practical Bioethics
   * Maria Fox, DNP, MSN, BSN, APRN-CNS, ACPHN, CCRN, Clinical Ethics Affiliate, Center for Practical Bioethics

August 26, 2020 - KHC Monthly Webinar
Preparing for CMS Appropriate Use Criteria Program: The Basics and Beyond
   * Kathryn Keysor, BS, Senior Director - Economic Health Policy, American College of Radiology
  * Christine Waldrip, RN, MHA, Director - Appropriateness Criteria, American College of Radiology
  * Louis J. Capponi, MD, FACP, Vice President and Chief Medical Informatics Officer, SCL Health

July 22, 2020 - KHC Monthly Webinar
K-TRACS:  Kansas' Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
   * Alexandra Blasi, MBA, JD, Executive Director, Kansas Board of Pharmacy
  * Jennifer Donelly, MPH, K-TRACS Assistant Director
  * Reyne Kenton, K-TRACS Program Manager

June 24, 2020 - KHC Monthly Webinar
Don't forget your PFAC: Strategies for engaging patients and family advisors during times of pandemic
   * Tanya Lord, PhD, MPH, Director of Patient and Family Engagement, Foundation for Healthy Communities
   * Cody Utz, RT (R), RDMS, RVT, RDCS, Director of Patient Care Services and Quality, Holton Community Hospital

May 20, 2020 - KHC Monthly Webinar
Beyond HIIN:  Moving  Forward in 2020
-- HQIN Program Update
-- Update on CMS National Initiatives:  HQIN, CQIC and HQIC
-- KHC HIIN Wrap-Up, including hospital recognition, data FAQs, and summary of KHC HIIN Hospital Feedback Survey

No webinar held in April.

March 25, 2020 - KHC HIIN Webinar
-- Hospital Success Stories:  Hand Hygiene Collaborative
   * Community Healthcare System, Inc., Onaga, KS
   * Ness County Hospital District No. 2, Ness City, KS

February 26, 2020 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Sepsis
-- Hospital Success Story:  Coffeyville Regional Medical Center
-- Best Practices in Sepsis by Maryanne Whitney, Cynosure Health

February 4, 2020 - KHC HIIN Anticoagulation Safety Mini-Sprint

January 22, 2020 - KHC HIIN Webinar
KHC HIIN Hospital Success Stories
-- How Labette Health slashed readmissions by 43 percent since 2012
-- How Osborne County Memorial Hospital dramatically reduced patient falls from 2018 to 2019

2019

December 18, 2019 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Anticoagulation Safety:  Avoiding High INRs:  What's the Secret?
Mini-Sprint Kick-off:  Anticoagulation Safety

December 10, 2019 - KHA De-escalation Webinar Series (Part 3 of 3)
S E C U R I T Y: Who Is Responsible?  (Hint:  It's Someone You Know)

November 20, 2019 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Antibiotic Stewardship in Kansas -- Part 2 of 2:  Hospital Sharing

November 12, 2019 - KHA De-escalation Webinar Series (Part 2 of 3)
All Patients Are Unique (Just Some More than Others)

October 23, 2019 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Antibiotic Stewardship in Kansas -- Part 1 of 2:  Statewide Hospital Progress

October 22, 2019 - KHA De-escalation Webinar Series (Part 1 of 3)
Sticks and Stones and Getting Along:  Controlling Conflict with Communication

September 25, 2019 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Age-Friendly Health Initiative and the 4M Framework

August 28, 2019 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Overview of new KHC HIIN data analytic reports for hospitals;
Four Key Strategies for Reducing Avoidable Readmissions

July 24, 2019 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Patient and Family Engagement -- Beyond the Metrics:
Implementing PFE Strategies that Improve Quality and Safety

June 26, 2019 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Reducing burden - Measures to be removed from HEN 1.0, HEN 2.0 and HIIN measure sets in QHi

May 22, 2019 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Adverse Drug Events - Hypoglycemic Management

April 24, 2019 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Bringing Fun to Patient Safety and HIIN Option Period Updates

March 27, 2019 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Kansas Falls Sprint Summary and Hospital Sharing
Sharing of hospital project summaries

March 21, 2019 - KHC HIIN Falls Prevention Sprint - Session #6
Sustainability, Sharing of hospital project summaries

February 28, 2019 - KHC HIIN Falls Prevention Sprint - Session #5
Additional strategies and resources for preventing falls with injury

February 27, 2019 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Journey to Health Equity

January 24, 2019 - KHC HIIN Falls Prevention Sprint - Session #4
Post-fall huddles

January 23, 2019 - KHC HIIN Webinar
HAPI Update for hospital-acquired pressure ulcers/injuries:
Data, prevalence studies and best practices

2018

December 19, 2018 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Workplace Violence

December 13, 2018 - KHC HIIN Falls Prevention Sprint - Session #3
Validating patient/family understanding, conducting bedside hand-offs

November 30, 2018 - KHC HIIN Falls Prevention Sprint - Session #2
Developing an aim statement, Top 10 checklist, conducting bedside observations

November 28, 2018 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Accelerating Progress on Disparities

October 24, 2018 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Kick-off of the KHC HIIN Falls Prevention Sprint (Session #1)

October 22, 2018 - KHC HIIN PFA/PFAC Collaborative Webinar
KHC quarterly webinar for PFA/PFAC Collaborative and launch of six-month extension of cohort 4.

September 26, 2018 - KHC HIIN Webinar
KHC HIIN progress through Year 2, information about the HIIN Extension, resources and upcoming events

August 22, 2018 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Peer-to-peer sharing featuring two of the projects (one on falls and one on readmissions) conducted by graduates of the 2018 HRET HIIN Quality Improvement Fellowship: Tina Capeder, MBA, Anderson County Hospital, and Tammy Cunningham, RN, BSN, Olathe Health System

July 25, 2018 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Follow up to June 27 Sepsis Champion Workshop: Advancing Your Knowledge
Plus, Sepsis Transfer SNAP Learnings and an introduction to KFMC's new Sepsis-Readmissions Report for Kansas hospitals

May 23, 2018 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Bringing the Board to Quality

May 15, 2018 - Kansas Workshop for Hospital Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs
Held in Manhattan, Kansas, featuring Dr. Steve Tremain, physician improvement advisor, Cynosure Health

April 25, 2018 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Preventing Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers/Injuries:  Building Skill and Will at the Bedside

March 28, 2018 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Post-fall Management:  Getting to Types of Falls, Repeat Falls and Determining Preventability

February 28, 2018 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Patient and Family Advisor Programs

January 31, 2018 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Reducing Sepsis Readmissions

 2017

December 20, 2017 - KHC HIIN Webinar
A Fresh Look at Fall Injury Prevention

November 15, 2017 - South Central HIINergy Partners
Sepsis: Nursing and Front-Line Staff Empowerment for Early Identification and Prompt Treatment

November 14, 2017 - HRET HIIN Roadshow, Salina, KS
This day-long workshop conducted by the Health Research & Educational Trust brought national faculty to central Kansas. With a focus on readmissions and healthcare disparities, it was customized to meet the needs of hospitals participating in the KHC Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (HIIN). 

 October 25, 2017 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Antimicrobial Stewardship

September 27, 2017 - South Central HIINergy Partners
The Next Frontier: Health Care Disparities

August 23, 2017 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Focus on Readmissions

August 2, 2017 - South Central HIINergy Partners
Transforming Cultures for Safety

June 28, 2017 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Coffeyville Regional Medical Center quality program
#123 Equity Pledge and KFMC’s new Readmissions Disparities Report

May 24, 2017 - South Central HIINergy Partners
Patient and Family Engagement:  Courting Patients and Families

April 26, 2017 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Introducing the new HRET HIINprovement Calculator and Communicating value in patient safety

March 22, 2017 - South Central HIINergy Partners
The UP Campaign: UP Your Game with HIIN, with a focus on Get UP

February 22, 2017 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Power of Storytelling

January 25, 2017 - South Central HIINergy Partners
Getting Started in HIIN

January 31, 2017 - KHC HIIN PFAC Kickoff

2016

December 2016 - KHC HIIN Webinar
Getting HIINergized

November 2016 - KHC HIIN Data Office Hours

October 2016 - KHC HIIN Webinar Kickoff
Kickoff meeting for the new Hospital Improvement Innovation Network initiative

August 2016 - Kansas HEN 2.0 Webinar
Award-winning patient safety initiatives at Holton Community Hospital and Newton Medical Center

July 2016 - Kansas HEN 2.0 Webinar
Follow-up to regional PFE workshops from June 2015

June 2016 Kansas HEN 2.0 Webinar
2016 Leadership in Quality Award Winner - Labette Health

April 2016 - Kansas HEN 2.0 Webinar
Fall Prevention and Medicare Quality-Based Payment Reform 

March 2016 - Kansas HEN 2.0 Webinar
Health Literacy and Teach Back 

 2015

 

September 2015 - Kansas HEN Webinar
Patient & Family Engagement

June 2015 - Kansas HEN Webinar
Health Care Personnel Influenza Immunization

April 2015 - Kansas HEN Webinar 
Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative; Kansas HEN Data and Reports update

March 2015 - Kansas HEN Webinar
Early elective delivery prevention; Kansas HEN Data update

February 2015 - Kansas HEN Webinar
Patient and family engagement, Tiffany's story, KHC PFAC Collaborative

 

HEN Education Archive 2015

2015 Kansas HEN Meeting archives

December 2015 Kansas HEN Webinar -- HEN 2.0
Additional HEN 2.0 announcements, data and measures, and details

October 2015 Kansas HEN Webinar -- HEN 2.0 (cont.)
Additional HEN 2.0 announcement and details

October 6, 2015 Kansas HEN Kickoff Webinar
HEN 2.0 announcement and details

September 2015 Kansas HEN Webinar
Patient & Family Engagement

August 2015 Kansas HEN Webinar
Hospital Engagement Network 2.0

June 2015 Kansas HEN Webinar
Health Care Personnel Influenza Immunization

May 2015 Kansas HEN Webinar
Hospital quality report cards and honor rolls

April 2015 Kansas HEN Webinar
Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative; Kansas HEN Data and Reports update

March 2015 Kansas HEN Webinar
Early elective delivery prevention; Kansas HEN Data update

February 2015 Kansas HEN Webinar
Patient and family engagement, Tiffany's story, KHC PFAC Collaborative

 January 2015 Kansas HEN Webinar
Celebrating successes, 2015 updates, Olathe Health Systems' approach to performance excellence

HEN 2.0 Education Archive 2016

Kansas HEN 2.0 Meeting Archives

August 2016 Kansas HEN 2.0 Webinar

Award-winning patient safety initiatives at Holton Community Hospital and Newton Medical Center

July 2016 Kansas HEN 2.0 Webinar

Follow-up to regional PFE workshops from June 2015

June 2016 Kansas HEN 2.0 Webinar
2016 Leadership in Quality Award Winner - Labette Health

May 2016 Kansas HEN 2.0 Webinar
Sepsis

April 2016 Kansas HEN 2.0 Webinar
Fall Prevention and Medicare Quality-Based Payment Reform 

March 2016 Kansas HEN 2.0 Webinar
Health Literacy and Teach Back 

February 2016 Kansas HEN 2.0 Webinar
 Connecting the Process to the Outcome 

January 2016 Kansas HEN 2.0 Webinar
Sepsis, NHSN Update, HEN 2.0 Measures Update

 

KHC HIIN Education Archive

KHC offers monthly webinars for the Kansas Hospital Improvement Innovation Network. To participate in the live events, please visit the KHC Events page to pre-register.  Each event is recorded, and links to the recording and handouts are below.

South-Central HIINergy Partners - May 24, 2017
"Engagement -- Courting Patients and Families"

 

KHC HIIN Hand Hygiene Collaborative - May 4, 2017

 

KHC HIIN Webinar - April 26, 2017
"Communicating progress and value in patient safety"

 

South-Central HIINergy Partners - March 22, 2017
"The UP Campaign:  UP Your Game with HIIN, with a focus on Get UP"

 

KHC HIIN Webinar - February 22, 2017
"#WhyImHIIN and the Power of Story Telling"

 

South-Central HIINergy Partners - January 25, 2017
"Getting Started in HIIN"

 

KHC HIIN Webinar - December 7, 2016
"Getting HIINergized!"

 

Data Office Hours KHC HIIN Webinar - November 30, 2016

 

October 2016 KHC HIIN Webinar 

Kickoff meeting for the new Hospital Improvement Innovation Network initiative.

 

Sepsis Toolkit

More information coming soon.

National Quality Strategy

  • Established by the Affordable Care Act to improve the delivery of health care services, patient health outcomes, and population health

  • First published in 2011 and serves as a nationwide effort to improve health and health care across America

  • Designed by public and private stakeholders and provides an opportunity to align quality measures and quality improvement activities

2017 KHC Board of Directors

KHC 2017 Board of Directors

KHC 2017 Board of Directors

Patient and Family Advisory Council (PFAC)

pfacPatient and Family Advisory Council (PFAC)

KHC has conducted four cohorts since 2015

From 2015 to 2019, KHC conducted four cohorts of the KHC HIIN PFAC Collaborative, offering support and national faculty to assist Kansas hospitals develop patient and family advisory councils (PFACs) and patient and family advisor programs.  The majority of Kansas hospitals have participated in one or more cohorts of the PFA/PFAC Collaborative.

Many resources have been developed and shared during this time, including an online, living toolkit based on the 7 Steps for Sustainability, as well as a series of supportive training videos.  These resources, as well as recorded webinars and other resources are available to hospitals in the KHC HIIN.  Contact the Kansas Healthcare Collaborative for access information, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or (785) 235-0763.

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Resources

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans.  AHRQ is a division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

http://www.ahrq.gov/

American Hospital Association

The American Hospital Association is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks and their patients and communities.

http://www.aha.org/

American Medical Association

American Medical Association’s mission is to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health.

www.ama-assn.org/ama

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is dedicated to protecting health and promoting quality of life through the prevention and control of disease, injury and disability.  CDC is a division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services

http://www.cdc.gov/

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, and health insurance portability standards.  CMS is a division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

http://www.cms.gov/ 

The Commonwealth Fund

The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality and greater efficiency, particularly for society’s most vulnerable.

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/ 

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) - "Quality 101"

HIMSS is transforming health care through IT.  Quality 101 is offered by the HIMSS Patient Safety and Quality Outcomes Committee as an introduction to the growing field of quality measures, standards of care, and evidence-based medicine.

http://www.himss.org/quality101

HealthyPeople.gov

Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. For 3 decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to encourage collaborations across sectors, guide individuals toward making informed health decisions and measure the impact of prevention activities.

http://www.healthypeople.gov

Institute for Healthcare Improvement

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is an independent nonprofit organization helping to lead the improvement of health care throughout the world.

http://www.ihi.org/ihi 

Institute of Medicine

The Institute of Medicine is an independent, nonprofit organization that works outside of government to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision makers and the public and serve as an advisor to the nation to improve health.

http://www.iom.edu/ 

The Joint Commission

The Joint Commission is an independent, nonprofit organization whom accredits and certifies more than 17,000 health care organization and programs in the United States.

http://www.jointcommission.org/

Joint Commission Resources

For more than twenty years, there’s one organization to which over 10,000 hospitals, ambulatory care facilities, laboratories, and other health care organizations around the world have turned to Joint Commission Resources for patient safety and quality improvement resources.

http://www.jcrinc.com

National Patient Safety Foundation

The National Patient Safety Foundation’s mission is to improve the safety of patients.  It is the indispensable resource for individuals and organizations committed to improving the safety of patients

http://www.npsf.org/

National Quality Forum

National Quality Forum is a nonprofit organization that aims to improve the quality of healthcare for all Americans by setting national priorities and goals for performance improvement, endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance, and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.

http://www.qualityforum.org/

National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC)

NQMC is a public resource for evidence-based quality measures and measure sets from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.  Quality Measures is a database of measure sets for practitioners, health delivery systems, and health care providers, with standardized abstracts and ordering details.

http://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov  

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The Department of Health and Human Services is the United States government’s principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.

http://www.hhs.gov/

Why Not The Best?

Why Not The Best was created and is maintained by the Commonwealth Fund.  It is a free resource for health care professionals interested in tracking performance on various measures of health care quality.  It enables organizations to compare their performance against that of peer organizations, and against a range of benchmarks, and over time.

http://www.whynotthebest.org/

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: A Profile

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of America's health care system. AHRQ develops the knowledge, tools, and data needed to improve the health care system and help Americans, health care professionals, and policymakers make informed health decisions.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.

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What is the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality?

What is the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality?

What We Do

In 1999, an Institute of Medicine report, "To Err Is Human," documented serious patient safety problems in our health care system. In the intervening years, AHRQ has led the Nation in responding to those issues and improving the safety of health care.

Using AHRQ's research and how-to tools, the U.S. health care system prevented 1.3 million errors, saved 50,000 lives, and avoided $12 billion in wasteful spending from 2010–2013. But, even with these successes, safety is far from optimal, and AHRQ's work continues.

What are AHRQ’s areas of focus?

  • AHRQ invests in research on the Nation's health delivery system that goes beyond the "what" of health care to understand "how" to make health care safer and improve quality...
    • There aren't enough specialists to treat everyone who needs care, especially in rural and underserved communities. AHRQ funded an innovative model, called Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), for training and supporting primary care clinicians in rural communities to provide specialized care for their patients. This model has flourished, receiving ongoing funding from the State of New Mexico, spreading to other States, and expanding from its initial focus on hepatitis C into new clinical areas, including mental health and substance abuse, and HIV. It has also been adopted by the Veterans Health Administration as a tool for expanding access to high-quality care for veterans across the country.
    • AHRQ's Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) is a structured protocol and suite of implementation tools that helps hospitals rework their discharge processes to reduce readmissions by determining patients' needs and carefully designing and communicating discharge plans. Hospitals using these tools have seen a 30 percent reduction in hospital readmissions and emergency rooms visits.
    • AHRQ recently funded three Centers of Excellence to study how high-performing health care systems promote evidence-based practices in delivering care. Health systems in the United States vary tremendously in their ability to produce outcomes that patients care about, such as those for cardiovascular risk factors. However, we know very little about which systems are doing a good job, or about how those systems are achieving superior outcomes. The AHRQ project will help close this research gap and produce information that can be used by health systems throughout the United States to improve patient outcomes.
  • AHRQ creates materials to teach and train health care systems and professionals to put the results of research into practice. 
    • AHRQ supported the development of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP), a highly effective method of preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). CUSP combines improvement in safety culture, teamwork, and communication together with a checklist of proven practices for preventing HAIs. AHRQ has promoted the use of CUSP in a series of nationwide projects that addressed various HAIs and produced CUSP toolkits to help clinicians prevent these infections. CUSP was implemented in more than 1,000 U.S. intensive care units (ICUs) to prevent deadly central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI). ICUs that used CUSP methods and tools were able to reduce these bloodstream infections by 41 percent, preventing over 2,100 CLABSI cases, saving more than 500 lives, and avoiding more than $36 million in excess costs. CUSP tools are free, and available on the AHRQ Web site to be adapted and used based on the specific setting.
    • In 2015 AHRQ launched an initiative to directly bring the latest scientific research, tools, and support to over 5,000 primary care physicians that will improve the care for over 8 million Americans. AHRQ awarded seven large grants to establish EvidenceNOW, an initiative aligned with Million Hearts® that will provide practice support to over 5,000 primary care physicians with the goal of improving the heart health of millions of patients and improving the capacity of the practices to incorporate new research findings and information into practice.
    • AHRQ, in conjunction with the Department of Defense, developed TeamSTEPPS®, a training program designed for health care professionals to improve patient safety, communication, and teamwork skills. AHRQ has trained more than 1,500 individual organizations in the United States through this program and is continuing to provide free training around the country. To increase training capacity, AHRQ has shared the curriculum and tools with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which has tasked the Nation's Quality Improvement Organizations to disseminate this training further throughout the country.
  • AHRQ generates measures and data used by providers and policymakers. 
    • Data from AHRQ's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project helped to highlight a jump in hospitalizations among Medicare, Medicaid, and private-pay patients for overuse of opioids. AHRQ showed that hospitalization rates more than doubled between 1993 and 2012, when there were more than 700,000 Americans hospitalized for opioid overuse. This warning contributed to HHS' launch of a major multipronged initiative to reduce opioid abuse in 2015.
    • AHRQ created and maintains the gold-standard suite of surveys, called the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, which provide valid assessments of patients' experience of care in hospitals, nursing homes, and doctors' offices. The hospital industry, patients, and CMS chose the hospital version of the AHRQ survey to be the measure for all of the patient experience elements for CMS' Hospital Quality Initiative. CMS incorporates these results into the Hospital Compare Web tool and its five-star rating system.
    • AHRQ's Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data helped the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission develop estimates of eligibility for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program; the Congressional Budget Office also uses AHRQ data in its estimates of the budgetary impact of many Congressional proposals.

How will AHRQ make health care safer and better tomorrow?

AHRQ is beginning work to tackle some of the health care system's greatest challenges, including: 

  • Reducing antibiotic overuse and eliminating health care-associated infections.
  • Improving care for people with multiple chronic conditions.
  • Incorporating the latest research findings into electronic health records to facilitate clinical decisionmaking.
  • Discovering how to better provide opioid addiction treatment services in rural communities.

Curriculum Tools

AHRQ offers several curriculum tools that health care professionals can use to make care safer and improve their communication and teamwork skills. Information on these tools is provided here.

Tools and lessons from the Academic Chronic Care Collaborative are provided here for adaptation in teaching medical residents and improving care for patients with chronic illnesses.

Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement: Curricular Modules for Faculty is a set of modules to help pharmacy faculty integrate health literacy and health literacy quality improvement into courses, experiential education, and projects for PharmD students and pharmacy residents. The curricular modules can be used for lectures, seminars, laboratory classes, and experiential education. The modules consist of 17 activity guides with 4 accompanying PowerPoint® presentations. Each activity guide includes a list of further resources.

TeamSTEPPS® is an evidence-based teamwork system aimed at optimizing patient outcomes by improving communication and teamwork skills among health care professionals. It includes a comprehensive set of ready-to-use materials and a training curriculum to successfully integrate teamwork principles into any health care system.

This implementation guide is a tool for continuing care retirement community (CCRC) staff to implement the Staying Healthy Through Education and Prevention (STEP) program. The STEP program is an evidence-based exercise program focusing on walking and strength training for seniors. This guide provides the information, tools, curricular material, and other resources needed to successfully implement the STEP program in CCRCs.

Tools and lessons from the Academic Chronic Care Collaborative are provided here for adaptation in teaching medical residents and improving care for patients with chronic illnesses.

These tools will help your unit implement evidence-based practices and eliminate central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSI). When used with the CUSP (Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program) Toolkit, these tools dramatically reduced CLABSI rates in more than 1,000 hospitals across the country.

The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) toolkit includes training tools to make care safer by improving the foundation of how your physicians, nurses, and other clinical team members work together. It builds the capacity to address safety issues by combining clinical best practices and the science of safety.

Shared Decisionmaking Toolkit

A five-step process for shared decision making that includes exploring and comparing the benefits, harms, and risks of each option through meaningful dialogue about what matters most to the patient.

Step 1: Seek your patient's participation.
Step 2: Help your patient explore and compare treatment options.
Step 3: Assess your patient's values and preferences.
Step 4: Reach a decision with your patient.
Step 5: Evaluate your patient's decision.

Population Health: Behavioral and Social Science Insights

This book comprises 23 chapters focused on what we know and what is still to be learned about the effects of various behavioral and social factors on longevity, disability and illness, and quality of life, primarily at the population level. Factors such as access to health care, educational attainment, nutrition, physical activity, use of tobacco products, and non-communicable diseases are considered, along with many other determinants of health and longevity. Several chapters focus on improving methods for behavioral and social science research. In addition, many of the authors examine the state of Americans' health and well-being and our return on investment in health care expenditures in comparison with other developed and developing countries.

June 23, 2014

What’s inside?

Kansas Updates

  • June Kansas HEN webinar to focus on quality resources for leadership
  • June HEN engagement reports sent Friday
  • KHC scheduling site visits
  • Reminder: HEN data due by end of month

National Updates

  • AHA/HRET Improvement Leader Fellowship Session Four this week
  • Save the date: Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, February 2015

Upcoming Events/Webinars

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July 28, 2014

What’s inside?

Kansas Updates

  • Effective ADE data strategies focus of July 30 HEN webinar
  • Registration open for Lean workshops
  • Nominate your coworkers for KHC Leadership in Quality Awards

National Updates

  • ILF Session Five -- July 30
  • HRET offers ADE re-boot camps in August

Upcoming Events/Webinars

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February 3, 2014

What’s inside?

 

Kansas Updates

  • Kansas HEN renews 94 percent of hospitals
  • 2014 Kansas HEN measurement document available
  • QHi ready to accept data for new measures
  • Next Kansas HEN webinar, February 26

National Updates

  • HRET Readmissions Boot Camp, this week
  • HRET Adverse Drug Events Boot Camp in February

Upcoming Events/Webinars

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Privacy Policy

Overview

This policy generally describes KHC’s gathering and dissemination practices for KHC’s website: www.khconline.org and some of your responsibilities in using KHC’s website. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to generally inform you about the types of information we gather about you, how we use that information, and whether we disclose the information.

By using this site, you agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy. Whenever you submit information via this site, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and with applicable laws.

Membership and Registration

AIf you have registration and membershship to aspects of this website, then as you use KHC’s website, you accept responsibility for all activites that occur under your account or password. KHC reserves the right to terminate your access to the website at any time for any reason. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and for restricting access to your computer so others may not access your personal informaion. If you believe someone has accessed your password to KHC’s website without your authorization, email us immediately at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Security

KHC will take reasonable steps to protect your personally identifiable information that you transmit to KHC and to protect such information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. However, no internet transmission is ever fully secure. KHC cannot guarantee that information transmitted via this site will remain confidential at all times.

KHC’s site may contain links to other websites. KHC has no control over the privacy practices or the content of any of its business partners, advertisers, sponsors or of other sites to which KHC provides links from KHC’s sites. You should check the applicable Privacy Policy of the web site sponsor when linking to other websites.

Information KHC collects

KHC strives to offer its visitors the many advantages of internet technology and to provide an interactive and personalized experience. We may collect and use personally identifiable information such as your name, e-mail address, street address, telephone number and other information, subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

KHC ‘s collection and storage of information about you depends, in part, on the page you are visiting, the activities in which you elect to participate and the services provided. You can visit many pages on the web site without providing any information. Other pages may prompt you to provide personal information, such as when you register for access to portions of our site.

You may also provide information when you request information from us, register online, etc. KHC also collects information automatically when you access its website and through the use of electronic tools that may be transparent to our visitors. For example, KHC may log the name of your Internet Service Provider or use “cookie” technology. Among other things, the “cookie” may store your user name and password, sparing you from having to re-enter that information each time you visit, or may control the number of times you encounter particular information while visiting our site.

As we adopt additional technology, we may also gather information through other means. In certain cases, you can choose not to provide us with information, for example by setting your browser to refuse to accept cookies. Disabling “cookies”, however, may limit your ability to access certain portions of the site. Additionally we may not be able to customize the site’s features according to your preferences.

What KHC does with the information it collects

KHC will use your information only as permitted by law. Aggregated information (information that does not personally identify you) may be used in many ways. As one example, we may combine information about your usage patterns with similar information obtained from other users to learn which pages are visited most or what features are most attractive. Aggregated information may occasionally be shared with KHC’s advertisers and business partners.

KHC may collect personal information about you through various technologies for the purpose of enhancing your visit to this web site and to make the visit more efficient and productive. KHC may also use this information to respond to inquiries.

KHC does not sell your personally identifiable information to third parties. When you provide personally identifiable information to us, however, we may share it with our business partners and third-party contractors solely for the purpose of fulfilling your requests or offering our products and services.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, KHC reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as KHC determines, in its sole discretion, to be necessary to satisfy any law, regulation, governmental request, or business need or to avoid liability for KHC or any third party.

Miscellaneous

KHC reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time in its discretion and to notify users of any such changes solely by changing this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of khconline.org and its related sites after the posting of any amended Privacy Policy shall constitute your agreement to be bound by any such changes.

KHC may modify, suspend, discontinue or restrict the use of any portion of khconline.org and its related sites, including the availability of any portion of the content at any time, without notice or liability. KHC may deny access to any person or user at any time for any reason. In addition, KHC may at any time transfer rights and obligations under this Policy to any subsidiary or business unit of KHC or any of its affiliated companies or divisions, or any entity that acquires KHC or any of its assets.

Copyright Policy

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Initiatives


Hospital-led Initiatives

Among its core initiatives, the Kansas Healthcare Collaborative leads hospital patient safety improvement efforts statewide.

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Provider-led Initiatives

KHC’s Quality Improvement Advisors (QIAs) are available to work with providers and clinics across Kansas, with support tailored to your practice’s needs.

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Previous Initiatives

KHC has successfully led a number of intiatives to support our hospitals and partnerships in their efforts to improve quality and safety.

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Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Staff

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Malea Hartvickson,MHCL, CPHQ
Executive Director
(316) 681-8208
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Treva Borcher
Treva Borcher
Director of Operations
(785) 231-1338
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Eric Cook-Wiens, MPH, CPHQ
Data and Measurement Director
(785) 231-1324
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Jill Daughhetee Jill Daughhetee, CMPE, CRHCP
Dir. of Education and Comms
(785) 231-1335
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Azucena Gonzalez
Azucena Gonzalez, BA
Health Care Quality Data Analyst
(785) 231-1330
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Mandy Johnson
Mandy Johnson, MBA
Program Director of Quality Initiatives
(316) 681-8200
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Erin McGuire
Erin McGuire
Quality Improvement Advisor
(785) 231-1333
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Jenni Peters
Jenni Peters
Quality Improvement Advisor
(785) 231-1328
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Julia PyleJulia Pyle, MSN, RN
Quality Improvement Advisor
(785) 231-1332
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Patty Thomsen
Patty Thomsen,
BSN, RN, CCM, PCMH CCE, CPHQ
Quality Improvement Advisor
(785) 231-1331
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Liz WarmanLiz Warman, MPAS, PA-C, MT
Quality Improvement Advisor
(785) 231-1334
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Liz WarmanRebecca Wagner, MPH
Grants Coordinator
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Board of Directors

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Samer "Sam" Antonios, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Ascension Via Christi St. Francis
Wichita, Kansas

Sam Antonios, MD is a physician leader serving at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis. He is the Chief Medical Officer for Via Christi Hospitals in Wichita and Medical Director for Information Systems. In his role, he provides oversight for the operations of the Medical Staff, clinical services and works collaboratively with all stakeholders at Via Christi to improve quality and delivery of Via Christi’s mission.

He is a Board Certified internist, hospitalist and is a Certified Physician Executive from the American Association for Physician Leadership.
     
Chad Austin  

Chad Austin
President and Chief Executive Officer
Kansas Hospital Association
Topeka, Kansas

Chad Austin is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Kansas Hospital Association (KHA), which co-founded KHC with the Kansas Medical Society. Prior to becoming president and CEO, he was the primary government relations representative overseeing all state and federal advocacy initiatives for the association. He began his career at KHA in 1999. Chad received his bachelor of science from Kansas State University and his master’s in health services administration from the University of Kansas. He is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Kansas Association of Health Care Executives. He also is actively involved with the American Hospital Association, National Rural Health Association, and the Kansas Society of Association Executives.
     
Joseph Stratton  

Debbie Bruner, MHA - Immediate Past Chair
Chief Executive Officer and Administrator
Minneola Healthcare
Minneola, Kansas

Debbie Bruner, MHA, has been Chief Executive Officer and Administrator of Minneola Healthcare in Minneola since 2012. A transformational leader, much of Debbie’s expertise lies in quality, risk, patient experience, and operational performance. Collaborating with the Kansas Frontier Clinical Health Improvement Network on projects has resulted in integration of mental health, improved patient experience, patient outcomes, and chronic care management. She secured USDA funding and successfully facilitated the Minneola Healthcare team through a renovation and new construction project. A passion for service excellence, Debbie continues to lead successful cultural transformation with the Minneola Healthcare team. Through her leadership and focus on all outcomes, her organization has been recognized by the National Rural Health Association as a Top 20 Performer in Quality and Patient Satisfaction. Debbie holds a Master in Healthcare Administration from the University of Southern Indiana.
     
Liz Carlton  

Liz Carlton, MSN, RN, CCRN-K, CPHQ, CPPS
Vice President of Quality & Safety
The University of Kansas Health System

Liz Carlton leads the Systems focus on quality and patient safety initiatives, specifically focused on the quest for zero patient harm and empowering health care professionals to provide the best and safest care for the patients they serve. Liz received her BSN from Texas Woman’s University, and a Master’s in Nursing (Adult Geriatric Clinical Nurse Specialist) from the University of Kansas. Liz has over 32 years of experience with clinical expertise in adult critical care. She is certified in Critical Care, Hospital Quality, and Patient Safety. In addition, she has expertise in program development with a focus on quality and outcomes management in a regulatory environment. In her spare time, she loves spending time with family, including her children and grandchildren; boating, camping, and riding motorcycles.
     
Rachelle Colombo  

Rachelle Colombo
Executive Director
Kansas Medical Society
Topeka, Kansas

Rachelle Colombo is Executive Director of the Kansas Medical Society (KMS), which co-founded KHC with the Kansas Hospital Association. Previously, she was Director of Government Affairs for KMS for more than eight years and has worked in the Kansas Statehouse in a variety of other positions. Rachelle holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
     
Craig Concannon  

Craig A. Concannon, MD
Internal Medicine
Beloit Medical Center, P.A.
Beloit, Kansas

Craig Concannon, MD currently practices Internal Medicine at Beloit Medical Center, P.A. Dr. Concannon earned his degree in Medicine from the University Of Kansas School Of Medicine in Wichita. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Kansas and affiliated hospitals in Wichita. Dr. Concannon is a past president of Kansas Medical Society.
     
Joe Davison  

Joe D. Davison, MD
Family Practice Physician
West Wichita Family Physicians, P.A.
Wichita, Kansas

Joe Davison, MD is a family physician with West Wichita Family Physicians, P.A. He received his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma, graduating in 1981. Dr. Davison completed his family practice residency at St. Joseph Medical Center in Wichita and is board certified in Family Practice. Dr. Davison is a past president of Kansas Medical Society.
     
Debra Doubek  

Debra Doubek, MD
Family Practice Physician
Stonecreek Family Physicians
Manhattan, Kansas

Debra Doubek, MD, is one of four physicians who established Stonecreek Family Physicians, Manhattan, in 1999. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Medicine. She completed her internship and family practice residency also at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City. She is a founding physician of the Flint Hills Community Clinic, a free clinic for Riley County citizens that have no health insurance. Dr. Doubek’s passion is treating obesity, and she holds a second Board Certification in Bariatric Medicine.
     
Aron Fast  

Aron Fast, MD 
Partners in Family Care
Hesston, Kansas

Aron Fast, MD, is a graduate of Southwestern College and the University of Kansas School of Medicine. He is Board Certified in Family Practice and is the Medical Director at Schowalter Villa, Hesston. He is a native of Hesston.
     
Lynn Fisher, MD  

Lynn Fisher, MD
Assistant Professor, Family & Community Medicine
University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita
Wichita, Kansas

Lynn Fisher, MD, is an Assistant Professor, Family & Community Medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita. Previously, he practiced full spectrum family medicine at LifeLine Family Medicine in Plainville. He is a 2001 graduate of the University of Kansas Medical School and 2004 graduate of the North Colorado Family Medicine Residency Program in Greeley, Colorado. He is a past president of the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians. 
     
Kiley Floyd  

Kiley Floyd
Chief Executive Officer
Nemaha Valley Community Hospital, Seneca

Kiley Floyd has been Chief Executive Officer of Nemaha Valley Community Hospital in Seneca since 2016. Previously she was Administrator and CEO at the Osborne County Memorial Hospital, a position she held for 15 years. Before that she worked at the Kansas Hospital Association for 12 years. Kiley is passionate about patient care, patient dignity, and access to care. Kiley received a MBA from Rockhurst University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Management from Kansas State University.
     
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K. Allen Greiner, MD, MPH - Board Chair
Professor and Vice Chair of Family Medicine
Research Division Director
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, Kansas

K. Allen Greiner, MD, MPH, is currently Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) in Kansas City, Kansas. He directs the department's Research Division and has a secondary appointment and teaches in the MPH and MS in Clinical Research Programs in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. He completed an undergraduate degree in Anthropology from Brown University and medical school and a family medicine residency at the University of Kansas. In 2000, he completed a Primary Care Research Fellowship at the University of Kansas and a Masters in Public Health degree.
     
Jenny Niblock  

Jenny Niblock
APRN Chief Clinical Officer
Citizens Health
Colby, Kansas

Jenny Niblock is APRN Chief Clinical Officer at Citizens Health, a position she has held since 1988. She earned her Doctorate in Nursing and Master of Science in Nursing, both from Fort Hays State University.
     
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Tina Pendergraft
Chief Executive Officer
Satanta District Hospital
Satanta, Kansas

Tina Pendergraft is the Chief Executive Officer, Trauma Program Manager, and Emergency Preparedness Officer for Satanta District Hospital (SDH), Clinics, & Long-Term Care in Satanta, a role she has held since 2021. Prior to her role as CEO, Tina served in various leadership roles in the hospital, emergency department and rural health clinic at SDH over the previous 15 years. Tina serves on the Kansas Advisory Committee of Trauma, Southwest Kansas Trauma Council Executive Committee, and Southwest Chair for the Kansas Association of Risk and Quality Management (KARQM). Tina received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Fort Hays State University.  

 
     
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Dallas Purkeypile
Chief Executive Officer
Advent Health
Ottawa, Kansas

Dallas Purkeypile is President and Chief Executive Officer of Advent Health Ottawa where he has worked since 2008. His career includes experience in clinical and operational leadership. Dallas earned his Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Union College and his Master of Business Administration at Mid-America Nazarene University.
     
Jerry Slaughter  

Jerry Slaughter - Vice Chair
Senior Executive Advisor
Kansas Medical Society
Topeka, Kansas

Jerry Slaughter is Senior Executive Advisor for the Kansas Medical Society, which co-founded KHC with the Kansas Hospital Association. Previously, Slaughter served as Executive Director of the Kansas Medical Society from 1975 to 2017. 
     
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Brian A. Williams 
President and Chief Executive Officer 
Labette Health
Parsons, Kansas

Brian Williams is President and Chief Executive Officer, since 2015, of Labette Health, a 99-bed regional healthcare system. Labette Health serves a six-county region in southeast Kansas. Prior to joining Labette Health, Mr. Williams possesses over fifteen years of experience leading physician and hospital organizations as well as ten years of prior experience leading financial services organizations.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science and General Business from Missouri State University, and a Master of Business Administration from Drury University. He is also a graduate of the United States Army Command and General Staff College. He is a General George C. Marshall Award recipient, is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Practice Executives, is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, and is a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel (retired).
     
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Aimee Zimmerman
Chief Executive Officer 
Logan County Health Services
Oakley, Kansas

Aimee Zimmerman is the CEO at Logan County Health Services (LCHS) in Oakley, Kansas. Prior to becoming CEO, she served as Chief Operating Officer for Logan County Health Services. She has been a registered nurse for 26 years and has 16 years of experience in quality improvement and risk management. Aimee is a long-time member of the Kansas Association of Risk and Quality Management (KARQM). She has served on the KARQM Board and also as a mentor to new risk and quality professionals.  Aimee received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Fort Hays State University and her Master of Health Care Administration from Grand Canyon University.

History, Mission, Vision, & Values

History

KHC is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to transforming health care through patient-centered initiatives that improve quality, safety, and value.

KHC was formed in 2008 by the Kansas Hospital Association and the Kansas Medical Society to act as a resource and continually enhance care provided to Kansans and to become the trusted source for relevant and meaningful health care quality improvement education, evaluation, and measurement.

KHC Mission

Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model
for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.

KHC Vision

KHC will be THE trusted source for relevant and meaningful health care quality improvement education, evaluation, and measurement.

KHC Values

• We believe those who deliver health care are responsible for leading quality improvement.

• We believe collaboration leads to developing, sharing, teaching, and learning effective approaches proven to deliver the best possible health care.

• We believe effective utilization of meaningful, patient-oriented analytics and objective reporting promotes excellence in health care.

Contact Us

Kansas Healthcare Collaborative
623 SW 10th Ave.
Topeka, KS 66612

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Cogitas magnam fab ricam conts truere celsitudinis? De dundamento pruis cogita humilitatis. Et quan tam quique vult et disponit super imponere loem aedifcii, qualto erit maius aeddificium, tanto altius fodit funda mentum. Et fabrica quidem cum constru itur, in superna consergit; qui autem fodit fundament aum, ad ima deprimitur. Ergo et fabrica ante celsitudem humil iatur, ante cel situdnem post erigitur. Sint lumba vestri prae vos similes sum nescitis qua vigilate ergo patri. Cogitas magnam fabricam contstruere celsitud.

De funda mento pruis cogita humilitatis. Bone quantam quique vult et disponit vestri prae vos similes sum super imponere loem aedifcii, qualto erit maius addi ficium, tanto altius fodit funda mentum. Tua fabrica quidem cum constru itur, in superna consergit; qui autem fodit fundamentaum, ad ima deprimitur.

Ergo et fabrica ante celsitudem humiliatur, ante cel situd nem post erigitur. Sint lumba vestri prae vos similes sum nescitis qua vigilate ergo patri.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

2017 Summit on Quality

Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Hyatt Regency, Wichita, Kansas
KHC and the Kansas Foundation for Medical Care, Inc. will jointly host the Ninth Annual Summit on Quality. The program is designed specifically to educate Kansas physicians and health care professionals.
Online registration is available.
Keynote presentations and speakers have been announced.  See the Summit Program here.
 

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About Us

History, Mission, Vision & Values

History

KHC is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to transforming health care through patient-centered initiatives that improve quality, safety, and value.

KHC was formed in 2008 by the Kansas Hospital Association and the Kansas Medical Society to act as a resource and continually enhance care provided to Kansans and to become the trusted source for relevant and meaningful health care quality improvement education, evaluation, and measurement.

KHC Mission

Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model
for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.

KHC Vision

KHC will be THE trusted source for relevant and meaningful health care quality improvement education, evaluation, and measurement.

KHC Values

• We believe those who deliver health care are responsible for leading quality improvement.

• We believe collaboration leads to developing, sharing, teaching, and learning effective approaches proven to deliver the best possible health care.

• We believe effective utilization of meaningful, patient-oriented analytics and objective reporting promotes excellence in health care.

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Cancer Screening & Prevention

Partnering with the Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment, KHC works with clinical practices to increase cancer screening rates and support prevention efforts. At no cost, KHC provides training, education, and technical support to clinics that serve low-income populations as they implement, track, monitor, and evaluate delivery of care for priority populations.

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CDC on Health Equity

The CDC defines health disparities as "preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by populations that have been disadvantaged by their social or economic status, geographic location and environment".

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