Improve your 5-Star Quality Measure Rating!
KACE and Great Plains QIN Kansas invite you to attend a day of education focused on your nursing home’s 5-Star rating.
This full day education workshop will examine recent changes to CMS’ Nursing Home Compare 5-Star rating methodology along with how to improve your 5-Star Quality Measure rating using continuous quality improvement techniques.
Take a deep dive into three specific quality measures: movement independently worsens, improvement in function, and rehospitalizations.
The workshop will also focus on how these quality measure effect reimbursements, along with utilizing a community-based approach to improve your overall performance.
The learning objectives are listed below:
1. 5-Star Changes and How They Affect You
a. Understand the 5-star changes effective 4/1/2019
b. Examine each of the three 5-Star domains and how they are measured
c. Review how to the 5-Star rating is calculated
2. QI Basics
a. Understand the essential components of a robust continuous quality
improvement program
b. Examine tools and process utilized to improve identified quality concerns
c. Utilize the CASPER Report to set goals for improvement
3. All three quality measure domains
a. Identify how the quality measure is defined and calculated
b. Evaluated tools and processes to track and improve each quality measure
c. Examine how each quality measure impacts reimbursement
Speakers:
JOHNATHAN REEVES, BA, CPHQ, Quality Improvement Consultant,
Kansas Great Plains QIN Johnathan recently achieved his certification as a
professional in healthcare quality (CPHQ) in January 2019. He has a bachelor’s
degree in political science from Washburn University and is also co-instructor of
Nursing Quality and Safety for BSN seniors at Washburn University’s School of
Nursing. He has spent most of the last 16 years working in long-term care, and
the last four years as a quality improvement expert. He also has legislative
experience and expertise from working in the Kansas legislative leaders’ office
and as an auditor at the Kansas Legislative Division of Post Audit. His primary
focus in his current role is nursing home data and systems analysis focused on
QI education and implementation.
BRENDA GROVES, LPN, CADDCT, CDSGF, Quality Improvement Consultant,
Kansas Foundation for Medical Care (KFMC) and Nursing Home Regional Task
Leader for the Great Plains QIN-QIO Brenda is a licensed nurse and has dedicated
the past fifteen years to caring and advocating for her elders. Her current role is to
lead nursing home teams in the development and implementation of strategies to
achieve CMS’s vision of transformational change.
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