Advance care planning (ACP) helps ensure patient treatment preferences are documented, regularly updated and respected. This helps make the case that patients are getting what they want at end of life. ACP can start with a conversation and documentation of patient preferences during a Medicare Annual Wellness Visit. This implementation guide breaks down ACP and will help your practice create and refine your processes to support it.
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Compensation requirements and agreement for nursing homes participating in the AHRQ ECHO National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network. Submit to ECHONursingHome@salud.unm.edu.
A change package to prevent harm (adverse events, abuse and neglect) for nursing home residents. November 2018.
A YouTube recording of a Great 8+ webinar sponsored by the Quality Improvement Organizations Comagine Health and Great Plains Quality Innovation Network. Featuring Margaret Silebi of Avamere Rehabilitation of Eugene (Oregon) and Debra Sutton of Jefferson Community Health & Life - Gardenside (Nebraska).
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Calculator to show practices how offering annual wellness visits, chronic care management and transitional care management can impact their business financially.
Webinar slides from a training on non-pharmacological and pharmacological interventions.
Guidance on the assessment of those most at risk for a decline in functional mobility levels due to inactivity.
After your Performance Improvement Project achieves the desired outcomes and you do not currently need more PDSA cycles on this topic, turn your attention to determining how to maintain gains beyond the life of the project using this checklist. This phase is about institutionalizing or integrating programs into ongoing organizational systems — turning a change project into standard work.
This specialty packet from CMS highlights measures and activities for MIPS performance categories that apply to MIPS eligible clinicians in 2020.
This specialty packet from CMS highlights measures and activities for MIPS performance categories that apply to MIPS eligible clinicians in 2020.
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