Q: How can I involve staff in the Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) program?
CMS to survey nursing homes about quality assurance best practices
Jun 28, 2012
Throughout the summer, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is collecting data from 4,200 nursing homes to help develop best practices for a new quality assurance initiative.
Ask the payment expert … about the financial benefits of QAPI
By
Patricia Boyer
Mar 01, 2014
What are the financial benefits to implementing CMS’s Quality Assurance Performance Improvement program?
Gentell’s Fastcare now includes QAPI reporting
Jan 06, 2015
Gentell Inc. has announced its Fastcare wound documentation and ordering now includes Quality Assurance Performance Improvement reporting capabilities.
Ask the nursing expert … about QAPI implementation
Sep 01, 2013
There has been a lot of talk about QAPI. What is the director of nursing’s role? Where should we start?
Nursing home operators can now access a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services webpage dedicated to the Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement initiative.
Feeling QAPI? Here’s where you need to be
Mar 29, 2013
A four-part series of webinars delving into QAPI mandates kicks off at 1 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Wednesday. “New QAPI requirements: designing, implementing and sustaining excellence” is the...
The most important leadership decision in a Quality Assurance/Performance Improvement plan is not what, but who, to include, a former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services official said Tuesday.
Updated palliative care guidelines: Providers should increase coordination, embrace QAPI
By
McKnight's Staff
Apr 15, 2013
Palliative care should follow care coordination and quality improvement processes called for by the Affordable Care Act, according to updated guidelines from the National Consensus Project for Quality...
Kramer: ‘Go where the money is in preventing readmissions’
By
Stephanie H. Kim
Jun 19, 2014
To reduce preventable readmissions, a healthcare business strategy expert advised SNFs to follow the logic of the infamous Willie Sutton. “Go where the money is in preventing readmissions,”...