5/10 Webinar on Earthquake Early Warnings

The ShakeAlert Technical Users Workgroup, a team from USGS and four West-Coast Universities, will be hosting an online May 10, 2023 Critical Lifeline Resilience Workshop on A Moment to Act: ShakeAlert® Earthquake Early Warning and Healthcare System Resilience, for healthcare partners to learn how ShakeAlert can benefit their organizations. The ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) System can detect earthquakes so quickly that alerts can be delivered to people before they feel shaking. ShakeAlert EEW can also trigger other pre-programmed actions that reduce damage to healthcare facilities and speed their recovery after an earthquake. More information can be found at https://www.shakealert.org/ and on the flyer below. Register for the Workshop at https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vdeqsqj8tEte2cwyqqGx3XB5EoCIH_L7I or https://ohaz.uoregon.edu/project/healthcare-workshop/. (The link below doesn’t work, as it’s only a snapshot of the flyer.)

3/21+ EQRS Newsletter, New User Training, Town Hall

The March 2023 EQRS Quarterly Newsletter is now available, at https://mycrownweb.org/2023/03/march-2023-newsletter/, and it’s action-packed. Its contents:

• CMS-2744 ESRD Annual Facility Survey which is in progress;
• ESRD QIP Final PY 2023 PSRs & PSCs Now Available and must be posted;
• March 23, 2023 EQRS Town Hall about EQRS Data Submission Deadlines and Announcements, NHSN COVID-19 HCP Vaccination Reporting Measure, ESRD QIP PY 2023 PSRs and PSCs, CMS-2744 Survey, and Frequently Asked Questions;
• Chat Box on 2744 Error Messages;
• NHSN COVID-19 HCP Vaccination Measure including reporting fields map, reporting deadlines (summarized below); and essential resources,
• How to Route EQRS-Related Questions and to whom;
• EQRS Clinical and other QIP Data Submission Deadlines (summarized below);
• A link to EQRS Public Portal Available at https://mycrownweb.org/2023/02/eqrs-portal-available/.

The March 21, 2023 EQRS New User Training was scheduled after the Newsletter was published; Register at https://mycrownweb.org/pcw_lems/march-2023-new-user-training/.

Data Submission Schedules for 2023 ESRD Clinical and QIP Data:

• March 31, 2023: Clinical Data for January 2023.
• May 1, 2023: Clinical Data for February 2023.
• May 31, 2023: Clinical Data for March 2023.
• June 30, 2023: Clinical Data for April 2023; NHSN COVID-19 HCP Vaccination Data for January-March 2023.
• July 31, 2023: Clinical Data for May 2023.
• August 31, 2023: Clinical Data for June 2023.
• October 2, 2023: Clinical Data for July 2023; NHSN COVID-19 HCP Vaccination Data for April-June 2023.
• October 31, 2023: Clinical Data for August 2023.
• November 30, 2023: Clinical Data for September 2023.
• January 2, 2024: Clinical Data for October 2023; NHSN COVID-19 HCP Vaccination Data for July-September 2023.
• January 31, 2024: Clinical Data for November 2023.
• February 29, 2024: Clinical Data for December 2023; Depression Screening and Follow-Up, and ICH CAHPS Attestation, for January-December 2023.
• April 1, 2024: NHSN COVID-19 HCP Vaccination Data for October-December 2023.

3/9 AAKP Transplant Patient Roundtable

In conjunction with World Kidney Day, AAKP will present a three-hour online March 9, 2023 National Kidney Patient Consumer Roundtable on Timely Issues Impacting Kidney Transplant Patients, Drug Innovation, and Living Organ Donors. Key discussion topics will include

• Covid-19: Ongoing Concerns for Immunosuppressed Kidney Transplant Patients as the National Public Health Emergency Ends on May 11th
• Opportunities and Barriers for Accelerating Innovations in Transplant Therapies and Drugs
• Issues Impacting Living Organ Donation and Living Donor Protections

Find details and the agenda at https://files.constantcontact.com/3ba3e021401/f2d112c3-de56-4faa-8ae0-fd067bfe70d6.pdf, and register at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AAKPRoundtable.

3/9 World Kidney Day and Nat’l Kidney Month

March is National Kidney Month, and March 9, 2023 is World Kidney Day.

MEI will present two March 9 webinars, one for Patients and one for Dialysis Staff:

• For Patients: How to work well with your dialysis care team, on how to work better with staff, have less conflict, avoid Involuntary Discharge, and get the best care. Find more information and register at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4RJjl3xOTpWJce61k_F0pQ.
• For Dialysis Staff: Reframing Difficult Patient Behaviors, on helping dialysis professionals reframe challenging patient behaviors, work more collaboratively with those experiencing kidney failure, and avoid Involuntary Discharge. See https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EIJtFq3MSceXL7Xcc-Brig for more information and registration.

Find more information about:

• MEI’s monumental work on Kidney Disease at https://mei.org/.
• The World Kidney Day 2023 program at https://www.worldkidneyday.org/2023-campaign/.
• The NIH National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Disease campaign at https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/community-health-outreach/national-kidney-month.
• The 2023 NKF poster at https://www.kidney.org/content/national-kidney-month.
• ANNA covers both National Kidney Month and World Kidney Day, including a tookit, at https://www.annanurse.org/article/world-kidney-day.
• The World Kidney Day website at https://worldkidneyday.org/.