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  Quality Assurance (QAPI)   

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Quality Assurance Program (QAPI)

(The templates must be updated with your discussion during preparation of your PI and QA program, and Agency's data and reality, your DON must review/approve the reports and data collection.)

Also: Please complete to be ready for new CoPs:

        1) The Clinical Record review minute and support documents

         2) ALL monthly/quarterly report

         3) ALL Logs

DON/QA Staff: Template for Performance Improvement Data Collection/Analyzes:

QAPI Data collection  (al year long)                         PI Monitoring Log  (Quarterly)

DON: Performance Improvement Plan:                 Target for Improvement or Replication (quarterly)

Performance Improvement Plan  (annual)        PI target for improvement report  Pediatric PT target for improvementMeasurable Improvement report: (DON-quarterly)    Care Plan Compliance problem PI Report

Measurable improvement report                              Care Plan compliance Problem PI report

DON, Clinical Manager/QA: Performance Levels, Patterns, Trends, Variations:  (Quarterly)

PI: Performance, Patterns, Trends                            PI: Performance Tracking Report

DON, Clinical Manager: OBQI Analyzes LOG (OBQI report must be analyzed by the Agency on Regular BD meeting, this log documented the review of the OBQI (Casper) reports) (Quarterly)

OBQI Analyzes Log                              Adverse Event (OBQI Analyzes)

QAPI PROJECT (CoPs):

QA/DON/Clinical Manger: Monthly report about hospitalization, emergency care prevention (results of risk assessment)

DON: Hospitalization LOG (Must be completed monthly)     Hospitalization Log

Hospitalization risk analysis: Hospitalization risk analysis  Emergency care risk analysis: Emergency Care risk analysis

QAPI Project Hospitalization/Emergency Care:  Hospitalization/Emergency care services risk Project   

QAPI Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Hospitalization/Emergency Care PDSA

Decreasing Hospitalization, Improvement report: Decreasing hospitalization/Improvement Report

Cardio Vascular Disease Project: CVD Project                     CVD Plan-Do_Study (PDSA) CVD PDSA

(Complete the DC Planning control log, and have the Total DC patients with High BP)

QAPI TOOLS:

DON/QA staff: Progress Note review form       Sign Up Package check up form         Improve Documentation:

Progress Notes Review Form                            Sign Up Package Check list                Prevent Conditionals Defficieny

DON/QA Staff: Chart Audit check list Q60 days (On Recert or Discharge)        

Record review tool: QA Audit Form      Private Duty:  QA audit Form (PD)          Pediatric:  QA Audit Form (Ped.)

Artificial intelligence is no longer a future concept for home health care—it is becoming an important tool for improving quality, strengthening patient safety, supporting clinical and administrative staff, enhancing documentation, streamlining operations, and promoting more effective coordination of care in the home setting. As AI adoption continues to expand, Home Health Agencies have an important opportunity to use these technologies responsibly and strategically. AI should support—not replace—the professional judgment, clinical decision-making, and responsibilities of qualified healthcare personnel. Its implementation must include appropriate human oversight, protection of patient privacy and health information, documentation integrity, staff education, and ongoing quality monitoring. When implemented appropriately, AI can help Home Health Agencies improve efficiency and consistency while preserving the personal interaction, professional accountability, and patient-centered approach that are essential to providing safe, high-quality care in the patient’s home. (Call our office to order your (AI) Implementation Manual, to be in compliance with (AI) professional standards (Content, price can be reviewed in our webasite at https://pnsystem.com/Consulting.htm))

(AI) Documentation Review Checklist  (AI) Documentation review  Use this checklist to review (AI)-assisted clinical or administrative documentation before it becomes part of the legal medical record.

(AI) Clinical Validation Checklist  (AI) Clinical Validation   Complete this checklist before implementing or significantly modifying any Artificial Intelligence (AI) application used to support clinical care, documentation, or clinical decision support

(AI) Corrective Action Plan (CAP)  (AI) Corrective Action Plan  Use this form to document corrective actions resulting from AI-related audits, incidents, QAPI reviews, privacy events, security findings, vendor issues, or regulatory deficiencies.


DON/QA Staff: POC Tips      POC TIPS (Orders/Goals)         Prevention Conditional level defficiency Assement/POC

Nurses Teaching tools at: https://www.hsag.com/zone-tools

PANIC VALUE list: (Verify that if any parameter is out of normal limit, the patient's physician was notified)                  

* Please be sure to add to the 485 Goals (box 22) realistics End Point goals

* Add Hospitalization & Emergency visit risks, Patient's identified goals, care preferences

* Add Advance Directives information in details to 485 (as was collected during sign up)

  PANIC VALUE  (Can be customized, if changed please replace that page in your Policy Manual)


QA Staff: Verification of visits/services patients random calls (Monthly)

Monthly QA Phone Calls      Patient Satisfaction Survey Patient Survey    Patient Survey Summary Summary

MD Survey MD Survey

QA Staff: Performance Improvement Bar Graphic Study sample:

BAR Graphic Hospitalization Risk                         BAR Graphic Generic

SURVEY DOCUMENTS REQUEST:

Survey Documents request:

CHAP - AHCA  CHAP - Policy     JCHO    ACHC   Assessment/POC req.  Survey Tips

Common Survey Questions                              Common Errors                         JCHO Safety Goals Poster

Common Survey Qt                                         Common Errors                      Patient Safety Goals Poster

                                                                                CHAP - Defficiencies 

Common Staff Qt                                              Total Patients visits                Home Visit items

Prevent Conditionals Defficieny                     Survey Ready Check List        Home Visit (ACHC) items


Administrator/DON: Survey Ready Check List

Survey Ready Check List                               Value Base Purchase VBP Information    VBP Information 2


Covid-19 QAPI Report (Quarterly):  COVID-19 PI Report *** no longer mandatory after 05/11/2023

For use by External QAPI RN only:

Consultant Report  (After visit as applicable)   

External RN QAPI review Business Associate contract: Business Associate RN QAPI Contract

 

Disclaimer: Every template is only your guide/AGENDA to type the Minutes of your meeting, your Agency Officials must assure that the meeting occur, the quorum is acceptable, and every member had active participation in the discussion

 

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