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Course Description

This session will review falls with major injury quality measures that impact the Quality Measure component of the Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Quality Rating system. During the session, we will review how this measure is calculated and how it impacts your overall Five-Star Quality Rating. The session will focus on best practices for reducing falls with major injury in your facility and how to improve this measure using a QAPI framework with emphasis on reduction of common MDS coding errors and implementation of a facility specific Five Star road map action plan. 

Learning Objectives

1. Understand how falls with major injury quality measure is calculated and impacts the Five-Star Quality Rating score
2. Describe best practices for improving falls with major injury quality measure impacting Five-Star Quality Rating score
3. Describe a process for establishing priority QAPI goals and actions to improve falls with major injury quality measures

Course Content

30 min    Review of the falls with major injury quality measure and impact on 5-Star Rating

• Percent of residents with falls with major injury
• How to calculate falls with major injury quality measure score in the 5-Star Rating system

20min        Best practices related to falls

20 min       Developing a QAPI plan based on the falls with major injury quality measure data analysis

• PIP Team
• Establishing goals for implementation
• Identification of tools for evaluating and monitoring compliance
• Plan for monitoring compliance
• Implementation of changes that will result in 5-Star improvement

5 min         Closing Comments/ Q&A

Target Audience  

Director of Nursing, Assistant Director of Nursing, Nurse Managers, Nursing Home Administrators, Nursing staff and leaders, Quality Assurance Director, Social Services, Rehabilitation services

Method of Payment

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