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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To protect themselves against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ compliance enforcement mechanisms, home care providers must focus on quality assessment and performance improvement (QAPI) ...

This is the second column in a series of five addressing how QIS methods can be used in a Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) system by showing the ...