Updates
Updates
MHCA compiles Quality Improvement updates monthly from various valuable sources and distributes to members in our monthly e-Newsletter, The Missouri LTC Minute. These updates are members only so please make sure you are signed in to the members’ only portion of our website to open the updates.
AHCA/NCAL Quality Improvement Resources
Quality Awards Program
The Quality Awards Program provides a pathway for providers of long term and post-acute care services to journey towards performance excellence. The program is based on the care values and criteria of the Baldridge Performance Excellence Program.
ahcancalED
ahcancalEd is a comprehensive online Learning Management System (LMS) for AHCA/NCAL members and their staff. It was designed and created to support members who do not have elaborate education departments or time to develop the newest in-service training.
Workforce & Career
AHCA/NCAL’s Workforce & Career center is a valuable resource for LTC professionals and LTC organizations. It includes training programs, prep courses, and much more.
Other AHCA/NCAL Quality Improvement Resources
Through connecting facilities to valuable resources and developing innovative solutions to stakeholders, AHCA strives to make the long term and post-acute care sector at the quality forefront of our nation’s health care delivery system.
QIPMO
QIPMO
The Quality Improvement Program for Missouri (QIPMO), is a cooperative service between the MU Sinclair School of Nursing and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. The program is entirely separate from the state survey and enforcement process. Nursing facility participation in the program is voluntary and confidential.
Leadership Coaches
The Nursing Home Leadership Coaching service is a cooperative service between MY Sinclair School of Nursing and the Missouri Department of health and Senior Services. The service assists nursing home administrators and other key operational leaders to effectively conduct the complex management issues associated with business and personnel operations.
LTC Trend Tracker
LTC Trend Tracker
This exclusive benefit for AHCA/NCAL members, LTC Trend Trackers is a web-based tool that enables long term and post-acute care providers, including assisted living, to access key information that can help their organization succeed.
Enhanced Leadership Development Academy
Enhanced Leadership Development Academy
ELDA is a professional development certificate program that offers a proven curriculum to help leadership build the self-confidence, talents and persistence they need to lead a top performing team. In addition, you’ll gain enhanced knowledge and skills you can immediately apply to your work setting.
MC5
MC5
The Missouri Coalition Celebrating Care Continuum of Change (MC5) promotes and supports ongoing collaboration within the adult care continuum to create environments where the dignity and value of each individual who lives or works there is respected and celebrated.
HQIN Solutions
HQIN Solutions
Health Quality Innovations (HQIN) will be serving Missouri as the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for the next five years. HQIN’s goal is to engage patients, families, providers, community-based organizations, and stakeholders in both new and ongoing efforts for better health care.
CMS recently designated Health Quality Innovation Network (HQIN) to assist Missouri nursing homes over the next five years. HQIN worked with more than 900 nursing homes during the previous phase of federal funding. By working with HQIN, nursing homes receive no-cost support for quality improvement, where they can improve care for residents, increase job satisfaction for staff, and even increase their Total Quality Score and star rating.
HQIN membership is collaborative and includes learning opportunities from regional high-performing facilities that share best practices and helpful tips. HQIN’s trainings are designed to be quick-hitting, bite-size segments for clinicians and frontline staff. Resources include printable tools you can use and share with staff, and educational programming that can be attended live or viewed at your convenience.
Get started today! For more information and to sign up for the HQIN nursing home quality improvement initiative, visit www.hqin.org or www.hqi.solutions. For any questions, please contact Dana Lammert at dlammert@hqi.solutions or 314-712-9176.
The more than 400 nursing homes participating in the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) program receive assistance from the Health Quality Innovation Network (HQIN) to make sustainable changes that improve resident care, elevate their facility’s Star Rating and address COVID-19.
Participants receive training, access to quality improvement tools and resources and data analyses to guide their progress. They also receive coaching from Health Quality Innovators or one of our locally based HQIN improvement partners, The Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence or the KFMC Health Improvement Partners. In addition to improving care at the local level, participating nursing homes contribute to these significant national goals:
- Increase the proportion of facilities with 3 or more stars
- Reduce avoidable hospital readmissions and emergency department visits.
- Prevent adverse drug events like delirium, diarrhea, hypoglycemia, abnormal bleeding or bruising.
- Decrease high-dose opioid prescribing for residents who are not terminally ill or otherwise excluded.
- Reduce hospitalizations for facility-onset C. difficile and contribute data to establish national baselines for health care-acquired infections.
- Prevent COVID-19 and other infections.
As part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) response to COVID-19, HQIN also provides intensive, no-cost technical assistance to nursing homes that have been identified by CMS to have infection prevention deficiencies. This special assistance includes reviewing the issue(s), identifying the root causes, developing an action plan, selecting and implementing interventions, and measuring progress.