Quality has been a longtime focus in nursing home care, but the effectiveness of quality-focused initiatives is often questioned. The purpose of adding performance improvement to existing quality ...

With a QAPI regulation in process and the subsequent date for submission of a facility QAPI plan to CMS a year after promulgation of the regulation pending, preparing for Quality Assurance and ...

Community Health Accreditation Partner Awards SimiTree's QAPI Program Its "CHAP-Certified" Status HAMDEN, Conn., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SimiTree, an outsourced services, coding, professional ...

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 AHCA/NCAL National Quality Award program is a rigorous three-­level process that evaluates a long term care organization’s capabilities against the Baldrige Excellence Framework, a systems, ...

For some nursing homes, quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI) meetings serve merely as a checkbox for requirements, but they haven’t driven changes to improve care quality outcomes. On ...

HAMDEN, Conn., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SimiTree, an outsourced services, coding, professional services and talent management resource for post-acute and behavioral health organizations, has been ...