Session Title:  5-Star Work Plans A to Z - Quality Measure Domain: Part 3

Target Audience: Nursing Leadership, Nursing Home Administrators, Department Heads

Presented By:

• Shelly Maffia, MSN, MBA, RN, LNHA, QCP, CHC, CPC, CLNC Director of Regulatory Services

Course Description:

This series examines the three domains of the CMS 5-Star Quality Rating System: Health Inspections, Staffing and Quality Measures including how the rating is calculated and analyzing facility data with a focus on developing a work plan to improve or maintain 5-Star Status. Common obstacles to 5-Star status will be discussed with tips and strategies for advancing facility performance. This session will focus on the Short-Stay Quality Measures that impact your 5-Star Rating. You will learn how each short-stay quality measure impacting the 5-Star Rating is calculated. Tips on how to analyze your data and develop plans to achieve 5-Star status will be discussed, along with application of the elements of QAPI to improve facility 5-Star Quality Ratings.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the Short-Stay Quality Measures that impact your 5-Star rating.
2. Understand how the Short-stay Quality Measures are calculated.
3. Acquire knowledge to implement best practices for Five-Star long-stay quality measure improvement using a QAPI approach

Nurses:  The Kansas Healthcare Association is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the Kansas State Board of Nursing.  This offering is approved for 1.0 contact hour applicable for RN and LPN relicensure (KSBN LT0030-0338)

Administrators: This course is approved for 1.0 continuing education credit hours for Kansas licensed adult care home administrators by the Kansas Department Aging and Disability Services.  KDADS Health Occupations Credentialing sponsorship number LTS-A0001.

Operators:  This course offering is approved for 1.0 continuing education clock hour for the Kansas registered operators in the core area of Administration by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services. KDADS Health Occupations Credentialing Approved Sponsorship number: LTS-A0001.

Social Workers: This course is approved for 1.0 hour of continuing education hours for Kansas licensed Social Workers by the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board.  Approval number: 17-006.

Dietitians: This course is approved for up to 1.0 continuing education clock hours for Kansas Licensed Dietitians by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services. KDADs Health Occupations Credentialing Approved Sponsorship Number: LTS-A0002.

CE's will be provided to those that complete a registration and the follow up attendance verification form. Webinar log in information and dial in information will be provided prior to the webinar.