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.
Continuing Education:
