Integrating QAPI With Direct Line Staff
In long-term and post-acute care, QAPI (Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement) is often talked about as a meeting, a task, or a regulatory requirement. However, QAPI is fundamentally a culture that requires full engagement from every department and every staff member, not just leadership. Historically, QAPI meetings were treated like data dumps. Teams gathered monthly...
Managing Quality Measures Through the MDS Process: A PATHTalks Episode
Quality Measures (QMs) are central to how organizations are evaluated, reimbursed, and perceived by regulators, payers, and consumers. While many leaders associate QMs primarily with the MDS department, successful performance requires a far broader, interdisciplinary approach rooted in clinical practice, documentation accuracy, and operational leadership. At the center of this work is the MDS process,...
Ad Hoc QAPI Meetings: New PATHTalks Episode on Regulatory Success
In today’s post-acute and long-term care environment, leaders are constantly balancing daily operations with the ongoing need to improve quality outcomes. QAPI (Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement) goes beyond a regulatory requirement. It is a culture, a framework for continuous learning, and a core leadership responsibility. While quarterly QAPI meetings are required in skilled nursing,...
Understanding the CMS Updates to QAPI/QAA Improvement Activities: Incorporating Health Equity Concerns
Today, we explore the recent updates from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that significantly impact Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) and Quality Assessment and Assurance (QAA) activities in nursing homes. The latest CMS memos have incorporated health equity concerns into QAPI program priorities, aiming to ensure that all residents receive equitable...
Register Now: QAPI Training
Join Pathway Health and NADONA for the regulatory webinar, “Stimulating Change Through an Effective Quality Assurance.” This webinar will discuss realistic strategies of who to include when reviewing a situation, completing a root-cause analysis and discerning actions that need to be taken which will move the facility towards quality improvement. The session will consist of...
Pathway Perspectives: Quality Outcomes
The road to achieving quality outcomes is not a simple destination but an ongoing journey. There are days when it feels like it is all “pedal to the metal” and then other days filled with multiple detours. When we experience a quality “roadblock,” it may be easy to assume that the cause is related to...
Fireside Training Courses in June
Pathway Health offers multiple opportunities to strengthen your education in June. Register now for the following Fireside Training classes: Prepare for Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM), presented in Montevideo, MN, June 4, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Director of Nursing – Basics, presented in Lake Elmo, MN, June 4 – 7, 9 a.m. – 4...
Operational & Clinical Strategies for Success with OHCA
Pathway Health’s Sue LaGrange will be presenting at the event, titled, “Reducing Readmissions – Operational and Clinical Strategies for Success,” hosted by the Educational Foundation of the Ohio Health Care Association in Columbus, OH, on May 15. The event offers post-acute care leaders interactive discussions and practical resources they can implement immediately. Participants gain access...
Fireside Training Courses in May
Pathway Health offers multiple opportunities to strengthen your education in May. Register now for the following Fireside Training classes: Prepare for Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM), presented in Lake Elmo, MN, May 9, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. 1,2,3 The Final Phase is Near – Strategies for Implementation of Phase 3, presented in Lake Elmo,...
An Effective QAPI Program with the Beacon Institute
Get hands-on learning to address your QAPI responsibilities that approach with the upcoming Phase 3 changes later this year. Pathway Health’s Jeanne Carlson presents at the upcoming event, “Implementing An Effective QAPI Program Applying Root Cause Analysis,” hosted by the Beacon Institute. The event takes place on May 9 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m....
