Performance Measures, Quality, and QAPI: The Big Connection is available for 90 days after enrollment.

This session was originally presented by: Jennifer Kennedy, MA, Judi Lund Person, MPH, John Mastrojohn III, MSN, MBA and Carol Spence, PhD at NHPCO’s 2009 Management and Leadership Conference in Washington, DC.

Hospice providers are responsible for compliance with the new CoPs as of December 2, 2008. How is your hospice doing with the Performance Measures-Quality-QAPI connection? Learn how performance measures plug into your quality of care and QAPI program. Learn to choose meaningful performance indicators that will change how you provide services and increase patient/family quality care. Find the quality connection in this energizing session!

Objectives:

• Discuss the regulatory, quality, and performance measurement requirements facing hospice providers today and how they relate to hospice operations and provision of care;
• Identify the interaction and connection between data collection during the assessment process, performance improvement projects required by the COPs, performance measures available for use and your agency’s QAPI program;
• Identify/locate resources and measurement tools available for support.

At the time of this presentation none of the faculty had any significant financial relationships to disclose.

In order to complete this online course and obtain CE/CME credit, the participant must view the entire course, correctly answer all case studies and quiz questions and complete the evaluation.

You will have access to this course for 90 days from the date of purchase.

Nurse: NHPCO is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

NHPCO designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 contact hours. Nurses should claim only the contact hours commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Accredited status by ANCC refers only to continuing nursing education and does not imply endorsement of any commercial product discussed in conjunction with this activity. 

Social Worker: NHPCO is an approved provider of continuing education contact hours by the National Association of Social Workers (provider #886414158). This education activity is approved for 1 hours determined by the content, and social workers are awarded continuing education hours commensurate with the extent of their participation.

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