![]() (PDF)Īgency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) ![]() Click here to access the QAPI Written Plan How-To Guide. This guide was developed by Lake Superior Quality Innovation Network to assist nursing homes in creating their QAPI plan. The QAPI plan is the written plan containing the process that will guide the nursing home's efforts in assuring care and services are maintained at acceptable levels of performance, and continually improved. Click here to access QAPI at a Glance (PDF).īeginning on November 28, 2017, nursing homes will be required to present their written QAPI plans to State and/or Federal Surveyors. Your QAPI results are generated from your own experiences, priority-setting, and team spirit. We hope that QAPI at a Glance conveys a true sense of QAPI’s exciting possibilities. This guide provides detailed information about the “nuts and bolts” of QAPI. QAPI will take many nursing homes into a new realm in quality - a systematic, comprehensive, data-driven, proactive approach to performance management and improvement. Click here to access The NNHQCC Change Package (PDF). It focuses on the successful practices of high performing nursing homes. The Change Package was developed from a series of ten site visits to nursing homes across the country, and the themes that emerged regarding how they approached quality and carried out their work. The Change Package is intended for nursing homes participating in the National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative led by CMS and the Medicare Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs), to improve care for the millions of nursing home residents across the country. The National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative (NNHQCC) Change Package provides strategies, change concepts, and specific actionable items that nursing homes can choose for ideas to improve residents’ quality of life and care. National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative Change Package Click here to access Implementing Change in Long Term Care - Opens in a new window. Although it deals with implementing culture change (not QAPI), it is a good resource on the change process. This resource was prepared by the Pioneer Network with a grant from the Commonwealth Fund. Implementing Change in Long-Term Care: A Practical Guide to Transformation Use of these resources is not mandated by CMS for regulatory compliance nor will their use ensure regulatory compliance. CMS strives to provide nursing home providers with access to resources (materials or websites) to support QAPI implementation.
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