Anyone with an interest in quality nursing home care should agree on one thing: The moment for Quality Assurance/Performance Improvement (QAPI) is now! A couple of years ago, a nursing home ...

Waiting is hard. The questions, the anticipation, and the uncertainties can be frustrating, even exhausting. Long term care facility leaders and teams know this from experience. They have been waiting ...

Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) programs have been ubiquitous in the home health space for the past few years, but in light of the nationwide expansion of the Home Health ...

The Affordable Care Act Section 6102 (c) requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish standards for a new Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) program in ...

Nursing home providers will soon be required to implement a Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) program as proscribed by Section 6102(c) of the Affordable Care Act. Although the ...

Nursing homes looking to best utilize QAPI, or the quality assurance and performance improvement program, should think beyond the obvious clinical compliance and care benefits to residents. QAPI is ...

plant social worker with Banner Good Samaritan Transplant Center and Advanced Liver Disease in Phoenix. He is a member of NN&I’s Editorial Advisory Board. In 1984, The National Organ Transplant Act ...