UNTIL OASIS-C IMPLEMENTATION!

 

Pre-Conference | Main Conference, Day 1 | Main Conference, Day 2

Pre-Conference Workshop – Develop Your QI Program with an Outcome and Financial Focus

September 14, 2009

11:00am – 12:00pm

Registration

12:00 – 1:15pm

Step 1: Jump-start the OBQI process

Cheryl Pacella, DNP(c), HHCNS-BC, CPHQ

Work through the steps of Outcome Based Quality Improvement, and get details on two proven strategies to improve patient outcomes: Plan-Do-Study-Act and Rapid Cycle Change. Cheryl, who previously worked for Massachusetts’ QIO, walks you through the maze of collecting the appropriate data and shows how to access it all. She tells you how OASIS accuracy impacts risk adjustment, accurate outcomes and ultimately P4P.

Tools: Adverse event audit tools and a “cheat sheet” of important CMS acronyms, websites and sources.

1:15 – 1:30pm

Break
1:30 – 2:45pm

Step 2: Improve outcomes through data analysis

Ann Rambusch, MSN, HCS-D, RN

OBQI, OBQM, case-mix analysis, trend analysis and Home Health Compare – where do you start and what are you looking for? Ann will tell you what the data means and how to use it to identify weaknesses in your agency to improve clinical and financial outcomes.

Bonus: Benchmarking tool

Plus: Ann will use real agency data to show you what could be keeping you from improving your outcomes and financials. Submit your data and it may be featured in this session!
2:45 – 3:00pm

Break
3:00 – 4:15pm

Step 3: Create a performance improvement action plan

Cheryl Pacella, DNP(c), HHCNS-BC, CPHQ

Learn how to develop and implement a quality improvement program that is not burdensome to managers or staff. Use your data to identify an outcome, develop an action plan, implement change, monitor your processes, identify best practices and measure your efforts. 

Tools: Plan of action, assessment, monitoring and evaluation tools, and disease-specific tools (asthma, diabetes, CHF).
4:15 – 4:30pm

Break
4:30 – 5:30pm

Step 4: Put the process into practice, reduce avoidable hospitalizations

Meta Smith, RN, BSN, and Ruth McCain, RN, BSN, COS-C

Twin County Regional Home Health used the OBQI process to improve its acute-care hospitalization rate (ACH) from 27.7% to its current rate of 18%. Learn how the agency implemented each step of the OBQI process and walk away with its improvement plan, related interventions to prevent re-hospitalizations and information on how the agency audits its QI plan quarterly and adjusts strategies to improve ACH score.

Tools: Acute-care hospitalization audit form, patient emergency care plan, hospitalization risk assessment, best practices form for preventing ACH and telephone triage tool.

5:30 – 6:00pm

Bonus session: Manage CHF, meet OASIS-C requirements & improve outcomes

Meta Smith, RN, BSN, and Ruth McCain, RN, BSN, COS-C

OASIS-C contains a “Cardiac Status” section that asks clinicians to document that they’ve assessed CHF patients for volume overload and implemented specific interventions. Meta and Ruth share the inner workings of their agency’s CHF disease-management program, including best practices and tools for assessing and treating volume overload in CHF patients.

Pre-Conference | Main Conference, Day 1 | Main Conference, Day 2

Approved for Continuing Nursing Education Contact Hours

Selman-Holman & Associates, LLC is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Arizona Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

 

Who Should Attend

  • Clinical Supervisors
  • Administrators
  • Directors of Nursing
  • Home Health RNs
  • Physical & Occupational Therapists
  • Quality Managers
  • Directors of Patient Care
  • Outcome Specialists
  • Performance Improvement Managers
  • Coding Managers