Why Should You Attend:
This program is a must attend for any hospital. This is because it is one of only three sections with a CMS worksheet. It will also discuss the CMS hospital QAPI standards. There is high number of deficiencies and these will be discussed. There are over 1,600 deficiencies any many that relate to patient safety. This program will also cover some proposed changes to QAPI. CMS is going to implement similar QAPI standards for critical access hospitals in the proposed Hospital Improvement Rule.
If CMS showed up at your door tomorrow would you be able to show that you are in compliance with the QAPI standards? Did you know there is a section in the QAPI standards that address patient safety and risk management? It requires hospitals to have 3 root cause analysis. Hospitals were also cited for not having a number of required policies and procedures.
Every hospital that accepts Medicare and Medicaid must be in compliance. The CMS QAPI worksheet is an excellent communication tool so that the hospital will know what the expectations are from CMS. QAPI is an important issue to CMS and an increased area of focus.
This program will discuss the memo that CMS issued regarding the AHRQ common formats. CMS states that there are several reports that show that adverse events are not being reported. In fact, it is estimated that 86% of adverse event are never reported to the hospital’s PI program. Performance improvement is very important to CMS and the hospital conditions of participation require many things to be measured.
Areas Covered in the Webinar:
CMS Final QAPI Worksheet
CMS CoP Manual Standards on QAPI
Number of deficiencies hospitals received
Final worksheet
Use by surveyors in assessing compliance with standards
Indicators selected
Evidence quality indicator is related to outcomes
Scope of data collection
Collection methodology
Number of projects
Focus on severity, high volume, etc.
RCA and causal analysis tracers
TJC Sentinel Events and framework for doing RCA
Interventions etc.
PI requirements and leadership
Board responsibility for PI34 standards to 8 and 7 completely rewritten
CAH proposed QAPI under the Hospital Improvement Rule
CMS memo on reporting into the QAPI system
Number of deficiencies in the QAPI standards
Ongoing PI program
CMS Memo on reporting to internal PI program
Hospital wide QAPI program
Prevention and reduction of medical errors
Program scope
Measurable improvements
Analyze and tracking of performance indicators
Program data
Tracking adverse events
Ensuring compliance with program data requirements
Identifying opportunities for improvement
Board responsibilities for PI
QIO projects and changes in QIO functions
PI priorities
Issues to improve patient safety, reduce medical errors and ADEs
Three RCAs or root cause analysis
Number of PI projects
Documentation requirements
Executive responsibilities
Providing adequate resources
Resources; TJC, CMS compare, CMS VBP, AHRQ PI toolkit, patient safety indicators, National Quality Forum etc.
This program is a must attend for any hospital. This is because it is one of only three sections with a CMS worksheet. It will also discuss the CMS hospital QAPI standards. There is high number of deficiencies and these will be discussed. There are over 1,600 deficiencies any many that relate to patient safety. This program will also cover some proposed changes to QAPI. CMS is going to implement similar QAPI standards for critical access hospitals in the proposed Hospital Improvement Rule.
If CMS showed up at your door tomorrow would you be able to show that you are in compliance with the QAPI standards? Did you know there is a section in the QAPI standards that address patient safety and risk management? It requires hospitals to have 3 root cause analysis. Hospitals were also cited for not having a number of required policies and procedures.
Every hospital that accepts Medicare and Medicaid must be in compliance. The CMS QAPI worksheet is an excellent communication tool so that the hospital will know what the expectations are from CMS. QAPI is an important issue to CMS and an increased area of focus.
This program will discuss the memo that CMS issued regarding the AHRQ common formats. CMS states that there are several reports that show that adverse events are not being reported. In fact, it is estimated that 86% of adverse event are never reported to the hospital’s PI program. Performance improvement is very important to CMS and the hospital conditions of participation require many things to be measured.
Areas Covered in the Webinar:
CMS Final QAPI Worksheet
CMS CoP Manual Standards on QAPI
Number of deficiencies hospitals received
Final worksheet
Use by surveyors in assessing compliance with standards
Indicators selected
Evidence quality indicator is related to outcomes
Scope of data collection
Collection methodology
Number of projects
Focus on severity, high volume, etc.
RCA and causal analysis tracers
TJC Sentinel Events and framework for doing RCA
Interventions etc.
PI requirements and leadership
Board responsibility for PI34 standards to 8 and 7 completely rewritten
CAH proposed QAPI under the Hospital Improvement Rule
CMS memo on reporting into the QAPI system
Number of deficiencies in the QAPI standards
Ongoing PI program
CMS Memo on reporting to internal PI program
Hospital wide QAPI program
Prevention and reduction of medical errors
Program scope
Measurable improvements
Analyze and tracking of performance indicators
Program data
Tracking adverse events
Ensuring compliance with program data requirements
Identifying opportunities for improvement
Board responsibilities for PI
QIO projects and changes in QIO functions
PI priorities
Issues to improve patient safety, reduce medical errors and ADEs
Three RCAs or root cause analysis
Number of PI projects
Documentation requirements
Executive responsibilities
Providing adequate resources
Resources; TJC, CMS compare, CMS VBP, AHRQ PI toolkit, patient safety indicators, National Quality Forum etc.
