Webinar - Five Star QMs: Re-hospitalizations, ER Visits and Successful Return to the Community9/16/20201:30pm2:55pm
Course Description
This session will review discharge to community, hospital readmissions, and emergency room visit 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 these measures are calculated and how they impact your overall Five-Star Quality Rating. The session will focus on best practices for decreasing unplanned discharges, emergency room visits, and return to hospital visits in short-term stay residents and improve your quality measures 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. Sample tools will be shared for driving and sustaining Five Star Quality.
Learning Objectives
- Understand how the discharge to community, hospital readmissions, and emergency room visits quality measures are calculated and impact the Five-Star Quality Rating score
- Understand the Requirements of Participation related to Discharge Planning
- Describe best practices for improving discharge to community, hospital readmissions, and emergency room visits quality measures impacting Five-Star Quality Rating score
- Describe a process for establishing priority QAPI goals and actions to improve discharge to community, hospital readmissions, and emergency room visits quality measures
Course Content
30 min Review of the discharge to community, hospital readmissions, and emergency room visits quality measures and impact on 5-Star Rating
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- Percent of successful discharges to community, re-hospitalizations, and ER visits
- How to calculate discharge to community, hospital readmissions, and emergency room visits quality measure scores in the 5-Star Rating system
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20 min Best practices related to preventing unplanned discharges and return to hospital rates
20 min Developing a QAPI plan based on discharge to community, hospital readmissions, and emergency room visits data analysis
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- 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
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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
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