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The Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI) is a national program
developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to
publicly report quality measures for every Medicare and/or Medicaid certified
nursing home in the country. The
quality measures are designed to assist consumers in making an informed
decision about the care they receive and where they choose to receive it and
to assist providers by measuring the quality of resident care. Quality measures are publicly reported on www.Medicare.gov. In
addition to developing and releasing quality measures for individual nursing
homes, CMS has funded Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) in every
state, territory and the District of Columbia to work directly with a few nursing
homes and other providers to improve care for Medicare beneficiaries. To maximize the impact of their efforts,
QIOs coordinate with key nursing home stakeholders, including federal and
state regulators, trade associations and long-term care ombudsman offices. QIO Support for Nursing Homes
QIOs work with Medicare and/or Medicaid certified nursing homes
across the nation to improve the processes of care related to the publicly
reported quality
measures. The two national priority
topics are: As part of these efforts, QIOs provide nursing homes with
guidelines-based clinical information on topics related to the quality
measures. QIOs also teach and
encourage nursing homes to set their own internal improvement targets for the
national priority topics using the free Setting Targets—Achieving Results
(STAR) site (www.nhqi-star.org). QIO Support for the NHQI Participant Group
QIOs work
intensively with a subset of nursing homes (the NHQI Participant Group) to
improve not only the quality of clinical care but also the quality
of life experienced by both residents and staff. The objective of this additional support is
to increase resident and staff satisfaction and to reduce the turnover of
certified nursing assistants (CNAs) through “culture
change”. This cultural
change employs person-centered care principles to transform care
practices, organizational work and physical environments in nursing homes
across the country. QIO support for
the NHQI Participant Group includes substantial individual technical
assistance as well as opportunities for collaboration and sharing with other
nursing homes. |
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For
more information, contact: Northeast Health Care Quality
Foundation The QIO for Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont 800-772-0151, Ext. 120 |
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