Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement: A Nursing Home's Guide to Implementation and Mgt

Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) is a data-driven, proactive approach to improving the quality of life, care, and services in nursing homes. QAPI is often used to identify opportunities for improvement; address gaps in systems or processes; develop and implement an improvement or corrective plan; and continuously monitor effectiveness of interventions.

Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement: A Nursing Home s Guide to Implementation and Management will introduce the basics of QAPI, including how it came to fruition and what regulations exist in regard to nursing homes starting their own QAPI program. In addition, this manual will highlight the new skills nursing homes will need to focus on to implement QAPI, including data analysis and root cause analysis. You ll get the tools you need to create a QAPI implementation and staff training plan.

This book includes:

• An overview of QAPI and how it came to realization
• Regulations surrounding QAPI and how they affect long-term care How to assess your current performance improvement culture
• A summary of each element and implementation examples
• Steps to take to create and implement a QAPI program

2014 HCPro