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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. Broadly, QAPI refers to any kind of auditing or quality metric standards a home health agency hopes to abide by.

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The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality

Briggs Healthcare

“Nursing homes play a unique dual role in the long-term care continuum, serving as a place where people receive needed health care and a place they call home. The 1986 Institute of Medicine report Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes identified a range of challenges to the quality of care in nursing homes.

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State Policy Considerations to Support Equitable Systems of Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs 

NASHP

5 Compared to white, non-Hispanic CYSHCN, CYSHCN who are Black or Latinx are at particular risk of receiving infrequent, low-quality care, 6 while American Indian and Alaska Native CYSHCN are less likely to be able to access specialty treatment or receive culturally sensitive services. HHSC Uniform Managed Care Manual.” [30]

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About This Resource Guide: Promising Practices to Address Health Disparities

NASHP

29 State health policy leaders may consider regulation a barrier to collecting race and ethnicity data in their health equity program development. 31 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) also prohibits discrimination against protected persons in health care. Source: Cara James et al.,

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What Price Transparency?: California SB 650 Shines Light on Skilled Nursing Facility Ownership while creating New Reporting Burdens for California Skilled Nursing Facilities

Sheppard Health Law

Related parties will be liable for unpaid state monetary penalties for citations and unpaid Quality Assurance Fees. Moreover, the sponsors of Section 650 also believe that transparency is urgently needed to improve quality of care and SB 650 would close the transparency loophole in existing laws. We will be watching!

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