Coaching in nursing home education just got a makeover: When paired with Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) and leadership training focused on communication, deeply involved coaches ...

Lesson 5 takes aspiring trainers deeper into the world of balanced dog training, where structure meets understanding. This video explores advanced methods that combine reward-based motivation with ...

QAPI is designed to be a proactive, data-driven framework that goes beyond compliance to focus on measurable and sustainable improvements. This article shows how to include section GG in the QAPI ...

Nursing homes are facing major new Medicare cost reporting changes that will require more intense data-collection efforts and enable additional regulatory oversight ...

For some nursing homes, quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI) meetings serve merely as a checkbox for requirements, but they haven’t driven changes to improve care quality outcomes. On ...

Skilled nursing facilities are required by law to have quality assessment and assurance committees to maintain and improve safety and quality in their facilities. The documents created and used by the ...

In this article, our second in the “Accreditation Options” series, which reviews some of the options for hospital accreditation by organizations with deemed status from CMS, we discuss the Healthcare ...