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What’s Inside?Quality Improvement 101

Quality Improvement 102

Essentials of Collaboration E-Course

Infant Mortality CoIIN* Prevention Toolkit

Collaborative Action Now to Defeat Obesity (CAN DO) Playbook

Care Plan Template

Care Team Role Builder Tool

At the National Institute for Children’s Health Quality (NICHQ), we’re committed to providing you with the resources you need to drive real change in the systems that influence children’s health outcomes. Use these free resources to start making an impact today.

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What do you mean by systems that influence health? We define it

as the composition of people, institutions and

resources that meet the health needs of a population.

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Quality Improvement 101Discover the fundamentals of improvement science and start driving change in your state or community

This online course empowers users to make effective, beneficial change by leveraging proven tools for success, including the Model for Improvement, Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles and driver diagrams.

Quality Improvement 102Already mastered QI 101? Advance your skills and enhance your ability to create real change through quality improvement

This course is the next step in mastering QI best practices and is essential for creating sustainable improvements. Dive deeper into testing improvement ideas and gain insight into moving from one PDSA cycle to another.

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30 minutes

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30 minutes

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Essentials of Collaboration E-CourseLearn how to collaborate effectively to drive change in your improvement initiative

Collaboration might sound easy but it gets complicated fast, especially when seeking community, state-wide or national change. Learn how to break down silos and align activities, working productively together to advance your change initiative.

Infant Mortality CoIIN* Prevention ToolkitAn interactive roadmap for reducing infant mortality

This dynamic toolkit features change ideas, case studies, videos and key insights from state teams who are working to reduce infant mortality throughout the country.

www.nichq.org/collaboration-course

30 minutes

www.nichq.org/infant-mortality-prevention-toolkit

60 minutes

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*Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network

Collaborative Action Now to Defeat Obesity (CAN DO) Playbook Help your community reduce obesity and enhance health

Advance your community’s health by using these evidence-based strategies to prevent obesity. In this online guide, motivated individuals and teams will find a complete roadmap for healthy weight success, including a workbook, strategy map and healthy weight templates.

Care Plan TemplateCreate a customized care plan developed specifically for your patient population

Effective care plans are never finalized; patient and practice needs are always changing so it’s essential to have an adaptable template that supports this ongoing process. This resource lets pediatric practices pick and choose items to create a uniquely customized care plan.

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Completed over multiple sessions

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Care Team Role BuilderGet organized to provide comprehensive and continuous care for patients

This online tool enables pediatric prac-tices to match up their practice activ-ities—such as those associated with registration, population management or care coordination—with the appropriate care team member. Along with keeping activities from falling through the cracks, this dynamic form increases efficiencies by assigning a time and mode of communication to each activity. 

Acknowledgments:Funding for the NICHQ Care Plan Template and the Care Team Role Builder was provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) through grant funds issued pursuant to CHIPRA section 401(d). The statements and opinions expressed in this tool are those of the authors and not those of CMS.

Funding for the Essentials of Collaboration E-Course, Infant Mortality CoIIN Prevention Toolkit, Quality Improvement 101 and Quality Improvement 102 was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant # UF3MC26524, “Providing Support for the Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN) to Reduce Infant Mortality,” from 9/30/2013 through 9/29/2017 for $11,600,000 (no NGO sources). This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.

The CAN DO Playbook was funded by the Prevention and Public Health Fund, created by the Affordable Care Act, and distributed by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It was completed as a part of the Healthy Weight Collaborative initiative that ran from October 2010 through March 2012. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.

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Check out what people are saying about the NICHQ courses.

“Optimizing partnerships and collaboration is the goal assigned to my action team. I received an email with this training,

and I thought it would be helpful - I was so right.”

“I was really impressed with the information regarding the diversity of groups/teams that was included in the course.”

“My job requires this type of collaboration at the national level with diverse stakeholders. I gained new insights!” 

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