In my previous article about the Nursing Home Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement guidelines (QAPI), published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, I discussed my delight in ...
The skilled nursing sector has seen a significant number of facility divestitures and closures in the last few years. Quite frankly, this negative trend is due in part to a reluctance by some ...
CMS proposes to require OPOs to establish a QAPI program to monitor and evaluate performance of all donation services, including services provided under contract or arrangement. As part of the QAPI ...
An ASC administrator is integral to a quality assurance performance improvement program, according to a Lakewood, Colo.-based Pinnacle III blog. Pinnacle III shared five key ways ASC administrators ...
CMS released a memo explaining the benefits hospitals can gain from using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Common Formats to track and report adverse events. Hospitals are required to ...
plant social worker with Banner Good Samaritan Transplant Center and Advanced Liver Disease in Phoenix. He is a member of NN&I’s Editorial Advisory Board. In 1984, The National Organ Transplant Act ...