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With QAPIs, Home Health Providers Should Opt For Tailored Approaches

Home Health Care

Curating a specific plan based on a home health provider’s needs, deficiencies and vulnerabilities is key to having successful Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) programs. The performance improvement aspect, or second part, refers to the actions taken by providers.

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How to Improve Your VBP Scores and Boost Medicare Payments

Home Health Care

Since CMS standardized it in 2018, Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement program, or QAPI, has served as a guiding light for home-based care providers. Every agency should be doing some form of performance improvement, some form of QAPI,” Griffin says. This makes it a highly effective approach.

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Executive Leadership Rounds: 9 Steps to Improve HCAHPS + Staff Engagement & Retention

Readiness Rounds

Creating a uniform rounding structure prevents the variance of individual questions and observations. Secure unanimous commitment from the senior team to initiate performance improvement initiatives targeting areas identified with high failure rates. Without structure Senior Leaders will stick to their comfort zones.

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Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health in Nursing Facilities (COE-NF) Launches March 15, 2023

Briggs Healthcare

SAMHSA provides leadership, supports programs and services, and devotes resources to helping people act on the knowledge that behavioral health is essential to health, prevention works, treatment is effective, and people recover.

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States Build Capacity to Address Maternal Mortality through Policy Innovations

NASHP

from maternal-related causes , with more than 80 percent of these deaths being preventable. The state Medicaid agency is currently developing a maternal and child health strategic plan, and maternal and child health-focused performance improvement projects for Medicaid MCOs to improve overall outcomes for Virginia children and families.

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It’s Time to Give Patients “Admin Access” to Manage Their Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Routine, preventive care is one example of this concept in action. Consider all the rich patient data—information about overdue annual visits recommended diagnostic procedures or preventive care, and even language and communication preferences—contained in the electronic health record (EHR). About Intrado.

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Improving Oral Health Access through Managed Care Quality Initiatives in Pennsylvania

NASHP

As highlighted in a 2020 Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services informational bulletin , Pennsylvania Medicaid has improved oral health access and quality of care by requiring MCOs to hire a dental director and execute performance improvement projects (PIPs) for pediatric preventative dental care. Fluoride varnish.