Quality
NHPCO’s Quality Resource Center, with tools to assess and monitor the quality of care and services your hospice provides, information and resources for compliance with the CMS quality reporting requirements, NHPCO’s Standards of Hospice Care, NHPCO Staffing Guidelines, QAPI Resources, and information on the NHPCO Quality Partners program.
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Find NHPCO Regulatory Alerts and Updates, Comment Letters, and publication links of importance.
Learn more →A national quality focused program that supports hospice and palliative care provider provision of high-quality patient centered care
Learn more →Project ECHO is an integral part of its Quality Connections Program and is focused on helping providers recognize opportunities for clinical or operational quality improvement.
Learn more →The 2018 Standards of Practice for Hospice Programs are organized around NHPCO’s Ten Components of Quality for hospice care and provide a framework that delineates the structures and process
Learn more →Quality Reporting includes information and resources to assist hospices in meeting the new CMS quality reporting requirements. The web page provides links to key CMS web sites and documents,
Learn more →HIS is a patient level data collection tool developed by CMS.
Learn more →CMS claims-based measures are developed using data from provider Medicare billing claims
Learn more →The HOPE Tool web page includes information about the hospice CAHPS Survey tool.
Learn more →Hospice Quality Public Reporting includes information and resources to assist hospices with Hospice Compare.
Learn more →The HOPE Tool web page includes information and resources about the hospice standardized assessment tool.
Learn more →The future hospice quality web page includes information about quality measures in the pipeline for hospice care.
Learn more →NHPCO offers multiple tested performance measures that yield useful, meaningful, and actionable results.
Learn more →Resources related to clinical care and patient safety
Learn more →NHPCO facilitates virtual poster sessions with a focus on quality and performance improvement (PI) in tandem with our educational conferences.
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