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AAPACN Quality Virtual Conference

AAPACN 2026 Quality Virtual Conference

Three-Day Registration – Members: $399 | Non-members: $798
Continuing Education: 15.0 CE hours for all three days *(NAB credits available)
Dates: Sept. 1 – 3, 2026
Time: 10 am – 4:30 pm ET | 9 am – 3:30 pm CT | 8 am – 2:30 pm MT | 7 am – 1:30 pm PT

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The Quality Connection: Linking Clinical Excellence, Financial Success, and Resident Outcomes

Join MDS and quality experts during the AAPACN 2026 Quality Virtual Conference for an immersive three-day learning experience focused on helping post-acute care professionals strengthen quality outcomes, improve survey readiness, mitigate financial risk, and drive organizational success.

Discover the critical connections between clinical excellence, regulatory compliance, reimbursement, leadership, and resident-centered care—and how they work together to drive organizational success. Through expert-led sessions and engaging discussions, you’ll gain actionable strategies to navigate today’s evolving long-term care environment while building sustainable quality improvement processes that enhance both resident outcomes and facility performance.

Why Attend?

  • Practical Knowledge: Gain essential resources and proven techniques to effectively monitor quality measures, improve outcomes, and drive your facility toward excellence in value-based care delivery.
  • Expert Access: Engage with long-term care experts during live sessions and Q&A opportunities, ensuring you get answers to your most pressing challenges.
  • Actionable Solutions: Leave with strategies you can implement immediately to improve quality outcomes, support staff success, optimize reimbursement, and enhance resident care.

Explore hot topics including quality measure management, survey preparedness, audit and denial prevention, documentation best practices, managed care, PDPM, ICD-10 coding, QAPI implementation, leadership development, dementia care, staff safety, artificial intelligence in nursing practice, regulatory compliance, and the financial impact of quality performance. Learn how to leverage quality data to make informed decisions, improve outcomes, and support organizational success.

Who Should Attend?

This event is ideal for nurse assessment coordinators, directors of nursing services, nursing home administrators, clinicians, quality improvement coordinators, and anyone committed to advancing quality initiatives in long-term care.

Whether your role focuses on quality improvement, clinical operations, reimbursement, compliance, leadership, or resident care, this virtual event will equip you with practical tools, actionable strategies, and expert insights to help your organization thrive, evolve, and lead in today’s complex healthcare environment.

Schedule and Session Descriptions

Click through the buttons below for detailed schedule and session information for each day of the AAPACN 2026 Quality Virtual Conference.

Tuesday, Sept. 1 – Day 1
Wednesday, Sept. 2 – Day 2
Thursday, Sept. 3 – Day 3

Registration Information

Registration includes all education sessions, digital conference materials, and online Zoom access to the live event for all three days. Registration will close on Sept. 1, 2026, at 10 am ET.

The agenda disclosed is preliminary. The final agenda and educational offerings may be subject to change. All planning committee members, speakers, and presenters do not have any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. Click here for further information on ANCC accreditation.
Commercial support provided to AAPACN by sponsors has in no way influenced or biased the content of the educational activities and conference sessions. AAPACN does not endorse or promote commercial products or services within its educational programs that are awarded continuing nursing education.

AAPACN does a thorough evaluation when developing and implementing an educational activity to ensure that Planning Committee members, speakers, and presenters do not have any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies; if a relevant financial relationship is identified, it is resolved and disclosed to all participants prior to the beginning of the activity.