Category: QAPI
Plain-language nursing home QAPI guidance on choosing useful measures, tracking improvement and organizing performance improvement projects.
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What is a performance improvement project in LTC?
A performance improvement project is a focused effort on a selected problem or opportunity that uses data, interdisciplinary work, tests of change, and follow-up measurement. A PIP should have a defined aim, baseline, measures, owners, interventions, review cadence,…
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How do you choose a useful QAPI measure?
Choose a measure closely tied to the problem, consistently obtainable, clearly defined, and sensitive enough to show change. Pair outcome measures with process measures and, when useful, a balancing measure. Avoid collecting data that no one reviews or…
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What is QAPI in a nursing home?
Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement is the facility-wide system for maintaining quality and using data-driven improvement to address problems and improve outcomes. It combines ongoing assurance activities with structured performance improvement. A practical program connects leadership oversight, data…
