National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative
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The Lake Superior Quality Innovation Network (LSQIN) offers your nursing home an opportunity to participate
in the National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative. It will:
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Help you work on quality and performance improvement practices
Eliminate healthcare acquired conditions
Dramatically improve resident satisfaction
The collaborative complements other national and state initiatives, including Advancing Excellence in
America’s Nursing Homes Campaign, The Partnership to Improve Dementia Care, Quality Assurance
Performance Improvement (QAPI), the Minnesota DHS Performance-Based Incentive Payment Program (PIPP),
and the Minnesota DHS Quality Improvement Incentive Payment Program (QIIP).
The goal is to improve systems of care that lead to better quality outcomes for your nursing home residents.
Targets will include increasing resident mobility, decreasing unnecessary use of antipsychotics in residents with
dementia, decreasing potentially avoidable hospitalizations, and decreasing healthcare-acquired infections and
conditions.
The collaborative is free. As a participant, you will:
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Form an interdisciplinary team consisting of a minimum of four people, including senior leaders, direct
care staff, and support service staff who provide resident care and services
Participate in a minimum of six collaborative learning opportunities
During periods between the collaborative events, you will test and implement the changes you choose
and collect data to measure the impact of the changes
Submit requested data/progress reports to Stratis Health, a partner in LSQIN
The collaborative is a mutual commitment between the LSQIN and the participating nursing homes. We hope
you will join us in this important work to improve health care quality and the lives of residents in nursing homes
in Minnesota.
Kristi Wergin
Program Manager
Stratis Health
(952) 853-8561, [email protected]
Kathie Nichols
Nursing Home Liaison
Stratis Health
(952) 853-8590, [email protected]
This material was prepared by the Lake Superior Quality Innovation Network, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS),
an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The materials do not necessarily reflect CMS policy. 11SOW-MI/MN/WI-C2-14-30
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