This webinar discusses the Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) process in long-term care. The discussion reviews: 

• The core elements of QAPI along with the associated F-tags
• The key role data has in QAPI success
• Who's responsible for QAPI plans and projects
• Key features of a QAPI plan

Collecting patient demographic and language data helps health care providers understand and tailor care to patient needs, improving outcomes. Meeting race, ethnicity, and language (REAL) data standards enhances care quality and identifies health care disparities.

Effectively implementing cross-cutting strategies can accelerate your improvement efforts. This includes the engagement of residents and their family members as active partners throughout the change process. Resident and family engagement strategies will help your nursing home establish and sustain vital partnerships and help educate staff on how to develop and sustain these efforts in your improvement work. 

Dr. Jean Storm discusses the role of the medical director (MD) in nursing homes. 
Fostering Engagement Between MDs and Facility Staff Part 1: 

Reducing preventable 30-day hospital readmissions is a priority for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. As a CMS Quality Improvement Organization, Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG) is committed to improving the quality of care delivered in each state. HSAG met with providers to produce an overview of care coordination best-practices to avert hospital readmissions.

Health Quality Innovator’s Daily Strategies for Use During Nursing Home Stand-Up Meetings resource is a 9-week education series tailored for nursing home stand-up meetings. Each week of the series contains five short, concentrated evidence-based talking points for use in daily stand-up meetings on a variety of topics, including strategies to reduce healthcare acquired infections.