Skilled Nursing News October 9, 2024
Nursing homes looking to best utilize QAPI, or the quality assurance and performance improvement program, should think beyond the obvious clinical compliance and care benefits to residents.
QAPI is usually seen as a way to reduce falls or tighten up medication management, but operators can do a lot more with the data besides using it for clinical compliance. In fact, QAPI is helping operators turnaround recently acquired properties, launch new business lines successfully, and even help with reimbursement.
Take for example iCare’s case. Through QAPI, the organization developed an improvement plan for its case mix index (CMI) scores, mostly since the state in which iCare operates is fairly new to CMI. However, The performance improvement program ended up being about...
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