Quality Improvement

70th AHCA/NCAL Convention and Expo

QI-1 - Bringing QAPI to Life: Translating Your QAPI Plan into Action

Speaker(s)

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  Ellen Kuebrich, BS

  Chief Strategy Officer
  Providigm, A HealthStream Company

  Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose

Phase 3 of the Requirements of Participation is finally upon us! And while we anticipate a delay in the expectation to start executing the details laid out in your Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) plan, now is the time to start taking a critical look at what you’ve implemented thus far. For many of us, the plan is a formal document written in regulatory language in order to meet the requirement, not a description of how we will actually execute QAPI. Join us for this session, during which we will translate regulatory language into actual action and provide teaching strategies so that all staff, from leadership to clinical to front line, will be able to understand and play a meaningful part in your plan.

Learning Objectives:

• Teach your team about the requirements of a QAPI program in an understandable way.
• Define a list of care areas to measure, incorporating data from multiple sources, with thresholds that signify a potential for issues.
• Utilize strategies on how to effectively use data collected in QAPI meetings in order to identify trends in resident issues, systemic problems, and corrective actions.
• Explain which Phase 3 requirements are being delayed and the appropriate implementation timeline.