News Headlines During the March 3rd Skilled Nursing Facility/Long-term Open Door Forum, it was announced that starting in April, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will begin publicly reporting six new quality measures (QMs)—four short-stay measures (three claims-based and one MDS-based) and two MDS-based long-stay QMs—on the Nursing Home Compare site. Then beginning in July, five of those six new QMs will begin to be phased-in to the Five Star Quality Rating System until they are fully incorporated effective in January 2017.
To read more, click here.  By tracking and comparing key performance indicators, you can assess your progress, address your findings, and maintain your progress with ICD-10 coding. The first step that providers need to do is to establish a baseline for each key performance indicator. The next step in using key performance indicators (KPIs) is establishing a point of comparison for each KPI you would like to track. Your goal should be to compare KPIs from before and after the October 1, 2015, transition date.
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Product Spotlight Changing How We Care Plan webcast will be presented on: Tuesday, May 3, 2016. 1:00–2:30 p.m. Eastern. Presented by Debbie Ohl, RN, NHA, M.Msc, PhD.
Long, complicated, computer-generated care plans aren’t doing your staff any favors—they’re too bulky to be functional. Join our program to learn how to create a compliant care plan that smoothly integrates into the care process and reflects a true, individualized, resident-focused plan of care.
During this program, expert speaker Debbie Ohl, RN, NHA, M.Msc, PhD, will show you how to make team- and resident-centered care plans and how to develop strategies to ensure leadership and team buy-in. She will also explain how to create user-friendly, person-driven, compliant care plans.
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
• Identify the strengths and weaknesses in their current care plan system
• Determine the benefits and challenges of changing current care plan methodology and why it is necessary
• Review a specific care plan format that meets regulatory demands, simplifies care plan development, and acts as a reference for staff
• Identify the steps to transition their care plans to real-world, usable formats
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