Planning Resources

Below are resources for faculty and staff who are planning educational activities.

For additional information, please contact BaystateCIPE@baystatehealth.org

IDENTIFYING PRACTICE GAPS AND EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Research and evidence to make health care safer and improve quality

Baystate Health Sciences Library
Resources to advance patient care, research, education, and community outreach

Baystate Health Community Health Needs Assessment
Assessments by each Baystate hospital of social and economic factors that impact health, access and barriers to quality health care, and health conditions and behaviors of its service area communities (conducted every 3 years)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Database with current statistics and resources used for gap analysis

CMS Data Navigator
Easy-to-use, menu-driven search tool

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Quality assurance tool comparing hospital care for patients with certain medical conditions or surgical procedures

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
Comprehensive source of hospital care data, including information on in-patient stays, ambulatory surgery and services visits, and emergency department encounters

Healthy People 2030
Interactive data tool to explore data and information related to Healthy People objectives

Hospital Compare

MedQIC

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Office of National Drug Control Policy

QualityNet
Healthcare quality improvement news, resources and data reporting tools

Surgeon General

US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

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