View the new CMS Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative Change Package.
The National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative Change Package is intended for nursing homes participating in the National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative led by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Medicare Quality Innovation Network Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIOs), to improve care for the millions of nursing home residents across the country.
The change package was developed from a series of ten site visits across the country during the 10th SOW. The Change Package focuses on the successful practices of those high-performing nursing homes. The change package is a menu of strategies, change concepts, and specific actionable items that any nursing home can choose from to begin testing for purposes of improving residents’ quality of life and care.
The Collaborative is actively working across the Great Plains QIN region to instill quality and performance improvement practices (QAPI), eliminate Healthcare-Acquired Conditions (HACs) and dramatically improve resident satisfaction by focusing on the systems that impact quality:
- Staffing
- Operations
- Communication
- Leadership
- Compliance
- Clinical Models
- Quality of Life Indicators and Specific
- Clinical Outcomes
To view additional resources visit the Great Plains Reducing Healthcare-Acquired Conditions in Nursing Homes initiative page.