Members: Free | Non-members: $109Continuing Education: 1.25 CE hours Date: May 2, 2024Time: 2 pm ET, 1 pm CT, Noon MT, 11 am PTDuration: 75 minutesSpeaker: Jessie McGill, RN, BSN, RAC-MT, RAC-MTA Achieving desired Quality Measure (QM) outcomes is a lot like baking a loaf of sourdough bread—it takes time and patience, and so …
Members: $22 | Non-members: $44Continuing Education: 1.25 CE hours Recording Date: March 28, 2024Duration: 75 minutesSpeaker: Jennifer LaBay, RN, RAC-MT, RAC-MTA, QCP, CRC Restorative nursing isn’t solely focused on physical health; it’s also about enriching quality of life, preserving dignity, and fostering independence. Explore the transformative potential of restorative nursing programs (RNPs) and tap …
Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities; Updates to the Quality Reporting Program and Value-Based Purchasing Program for Federal Fiscal Year 2025 Filed on: 03/28/2024 at 4:15 pm Scheduled Pub. Date: 04/03/2024 PDF 211 Pages (592 KB) Permalink Press release On March 28, 2024, the Centers for …
Presenters: Heidi Magladry, R.N.Program Coordinator, SNF QRPCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services Teresa Mota, B.S.N., R.N.Associate Scientist/Nurse ResearcherAbt Global March 26, 2024 2024_March_SNF_QRP_Achieving_A_Full_APU_Webinar_Update (PDF)
The role of the director of nursing services (DNS) in a skilled nursing facility (SNF) can be stressful due to the number of competing priorities in each day. Delegation, when done properly, can help relieve some stressors while ensuring tasks are completed. In contrast, failure to delegate can lead to …
Enhanced Barrier Precautions in Nursing Homes to Prevent Spread of Multidrug-resistant Organisms (MDROs) Memo #QSO-24-08-NH Posting Date 2024-03-20 Fiscal Year 2024 Memorandum Summary • CMS is issuing new guidance for State Survey Agencies and long term care (LTC) facilities on the use of enhanced barrier precautions (EBP) to align with nationally accepted …
The HCP Flu Vaccination Module, which is part of the HCP component in NHSN, is used to input required NHSN data for the SNF QRP. This site provides access to the HCP Vaccination Module: Influenza Vaccination Summary Protocol, which is the primary manual for the module. In addition, it provides …
Nursing homes are required to establish a surveillance system (i.e., “the routine, ongoing, and systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of surveillance data”) as part of their infection prevention and control program (IPCP) under F-tag 880 (Infection Prevention and Control) in Appendix PP of the State Operations Manual. This surveillance …
According to the Nursing Homes webpage of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) site, “Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and nursing facilities (NFs) are required to be in compliance with the requirements in 42 CFR Part 483, Subpart B, to receive payment under the Medicare or Medicaid programs. To …
“Why in the world did my staff member say this?” and “Why did my staff do that?” are two questions that no director of nursing services (DNS) wants to have when reading the Statement of Deficiencies and Plan of Correction (form CMS-2567) handed out by the state survey team at …
