Quality Events

How to Implement a Near Miss Program

This complimentary educational event is designed to equip health care professionals with the knowledge and tools required to develop and sustain a near miss reporting program within their organizations. The educational session will cover key aspects such as the steps to start a near miss program, strategies for incentivizing staff participation, and the importance of a non-punitive reporting culture. Expert insights will be provided on setting up a comprehensive system that engages all stakeholders and effectively uses collected data for continuous improvement. By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to apply these practices to improve patient and employee safety and meet higher standards of care in all types of healthcare settings.

 

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HealthPartners Swing Bed Optimization Webinar

Join us for a one-hour webinar featuring three Wisconsin HealthPartners critical access hospitals—Amery, Hudson and Westfields—as they share their 2025 WHA Quality Award-winning strategies for optimizing swing bed utilization. Swing beds allow patients to receive post-acute care in their local hospital, avoiding unnecessary transfers to urban centers.

Topics include:

• Enhancing bed availability in critical access hospitals
• Reducing avoidable days at tertiary care facilities
• Shortening patient wait times for admission
• Gaining a positive operating margin for critical access hospitals and better serve their communities.
• And more!

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DataGen Overview of Medicare's Readmission Reduction Program and Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program & Analyses

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Have you been wondering how best your hospital can leverage the CMS reports offered as a WHA member benefit? Join us and learn more about the Readmission Reduction and Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction programs.
 

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Webinar One: Focus on Improving Healthcare Worker Wellness and Resilience

Advance Your Patient Safety Strategy!  The 2025 CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure (PSSM) calls on hospitals to conduct comprehensive, system-wide assessments to identify patient safety risks and demonstrate a strong commitment to organizational improvement.  To support this effort, WHA Quality is hosting a two-part webinar series in June, facilitated by national experts from ECRI and The Just Culture Company.  

These two-hour sessions will help hospitals: 
•    Understand and apply ECRI’s Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns  
•    Identify key organizational gaps 
•    Align efforts with PSSM requirements 
•    Implement strategic, measurable safety improvements 
 
Hospitals participating in the upcoming WHA Patient Safety Webinar Series can complete ECRI’s free assessment tool to support alignment with the CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure (PSSM).  

 

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Expert Clinical Guidance for Challenging Addiction Cases

If you treat individuals struggling with opioid, stimulant, alcohol, or other drug addictions and have a complex case that could benefit from expert clinical support, the Substance Use Clinical Support Office Hours are here for you. If you're looking to expand your network of colleagues and seek guidance on treatment options for challenging cases, these opportunities are available to you.
 

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Webinar Two: Focus on Activating Patients as Partners in Care and Safety

Advance Your Patient Safety Strategy!  The 2025 CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure (PSSM) calls on hospitals to conduct comprehensive, system-wide assessments to identify patient safety risks and demonstrate a strong commitment to organizational improvement.  To support this effort, WHA Quality is hosting a two-part webinar series in June, facilitated by national experts from ECRI and The Just Culture Company.  

These two-hour sessions will help hospitals: 
•    Understand and apply ECRI’s Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns  
•    Identify key organizational gaps 
•    Align efforts with PSSM requirements 
•    Implement strategic, measurable safety improvements 
 
Hospitals participating in the upcoming WHA Patient Safety Webinar Series can complete ECRI’s free assessment tool to support alignment with the CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure (PSSM).  
 

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Expert Clinical Guidance for Challenging Addiction Cases

If you treat individuals struggling with opioid, stimulant, alcohol, or other drug addictions and have a complex case that could benefit from expert clinical support, the Substance Use Clinical Support Office Hours are here for you. If you're looking to expand your network of colleagues and seek guidance on treatment options for challenging cases, these opportunities are available to you.
 

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Expert Clinical Guidance for Challenging Addiction Cases

If you treat individuals struggling with opioid, stimulant, alcohol, or other drug addictions and have a complex case that could benefit from expert clinical support, the Substance Use Clinical Support Office Hours are here for you. If you're looking to expand your network of colleagues and seek guidance on treatment options for challenging cases, these opportunities are available to you.
 

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Healthcare Quality Data Sanity Workshop

Join WHA and Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative for a workshop on data analysis and performance improvements. This interactive workshop will help participants analyze and interpret their data and learn ways to utilize Excel to report where there are opportunities for improvements. Performance improvements to initiate based on this data analysis will also be presented. Participants should have their laptops at this workshop and data that they have questions on or struggles with.

Objectives:

• Increased knowledge of working with data, drilling down data, and analysis for opportunites of Improvement
• Ability to apply appropriate Performance Improvement methods

Davis Balestracci, M.S. statistics, will present. He is well known for delivering his message of "data sanity" through an internationally acclaimed passionate, provocative, challenging, yet humorous and down-to-earth public speaking style.

Cost is $50 per hospital with two attendees allowed per hospital. Sponsored by Wisconsin Office of Rural Health.

For details and more information, see brochure.

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