Getting Started Kit

 Updated How-to Guide with instructions for implementing the change in your organization, including changes and measures.

Introductory PowerPoint Presentation to introduce and explain the intervention in your organization.

 Updated Annotated Bibliography

Campaign Mentor Hospitals

The organizations on the Campaign Mentor Hospital Registry have volunteered to provide support, advice, clinical expertise, and tips to hospitals seeking help with their implementation efforts. 

Deliver Reliable, Evidence-Based Care for Congestive Heart Failure Campaign Mentor Hospitals

 Tools

Tools for hospitals working to deliver reliable, evidence-based care for congestive heart failure.

 Getting Started Guide: Improving Care for Patients with Heart Failure — Focus on Ambulatory Care

 Creating an Ideal Transition Home for Patients with Heart Failure Toolkit

 Heart Failure Zone Flyer

Congestive Heart Failure Patient and Family Fact Sheet

General Discharge Instruction Sheet: CHF

Interdisciplinary Patient/Family Education Record: CHF

Physician Admission Orders: CHF

Physician Discharge Orders: CHF

Preliminary Discharge Instructions: CHF

 Measurement Information Forms

Detailed information on the process and outcome measures outlined in the How-to Guide. 

Discharge Instructions

(From the link above, scroll down to find the link for HF-1)

Evaluation of LVS Function

(From the link above, scroll down to find the link for HF-2)

Evaluation of LVS Function        

(From the link above, scroll down to find the link for HF-2)

ACEI or ARB for LVSD

(From the link above, scroll down to find the link for HF-3)

Adult Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

(From the link above, scroll down to find the link for HF-4)

Pneumococcal Vaccination

(From the link above, scroll down to find the link for PN-2)

Influenza Vaccination

(From the link above, scroll down to find the link for PN-7)

Anticoagulant at Discharge for HF Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

(From the link above, scroll down to page 1158 to find the measure definition)

Percent of Congestive Heart Failure Patient Discharges with Readmission Within 30 Days

Percent of Congestive Heart Failure Patients Receiving Perfect Care

 Improvement Stories

Read improvement stories and learn how others have succeeded in preventing harm from heart failure. 

Good Heart Failure Care Follows Patients Home

 Resources

Other resources available to help your quality improvement efforts. 

Join a deliver reliable, evidence-based care for CHF web discussion

Get with the Guidelines - A Program of the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association

Patient and Family Resource from the Heart Failure Society of America

Patient and Family Resource from Heart Failure Online

American Telemedicine Association

MedQic.org - CMS website for clinical education and telehealth tools

Heart Failure Online.org

Improved care for patients with congestive heart failure published in the Joint Commission Journal as part of a series on the six new interventions in the Campaign.

Call Recordings

Recordings of Campaign calls on delivering reliable, evidence-based care for congestive heart failure.

 February 22, 2007 - Introduction

 April 26, 2007 - Office Hour

 September 20, 2007- Office Hour

 February 21, 2008 - Office Hour

National Action Day Materials

On June 20, 2007, over 35,000 participants focused their attention on getting results faster and more reliably.  Materials used during the Congeestive Heart Failure session are available for download.

Congestive Heart Failure Session Recording

PPT Slides, Slides as Handouts, Checklist Tool, Changes Made Worksheet, Changes Planned Worksheet, Blank Planning Worksheet

 Contact

For more information contact:

Diane Jacobsen, MPH, CPHQ
Email: djacobsen@ihi.org
Phone: (763) 553-0232

OR

Cory Sevin, RN, MSN, NP
Email: csevin@ihi.org
Phone: 303-776-0045