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Nursing Home Quality

Nursing Home Quality was created to address two critical needs related to the national implementation of the Quality Indicator Survey (QIS):

  1. To train surveyors and certify survey agency trainers in QIS under contract to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), as the QIS is expanded.
  2. To provide affordable and reliable QIS educational programs and QA systems to nursing homes so that the QIS tools can be used for ongoing quality improvement and assurance.
QIS Surveys Conducted
      As of 06/29/2009
     California          36
     Connecticut      489
     Florida             616
     Kansas             247
     Louisiana         202
     Maryland           19
     Minnesota        193
     North Carolina    93
     New Mexico       28
     Ohio                214
     Washington        13
     West Virginia     13
     Total            2,163

What Nursing Home Quality Does

CMS contract: Nursing Home Quality competed with other small businesses and was awarded a 5‐year CMS contract to train survey agency staff throughout the country to conduct the QIS. To carry out this contract, we use the exact training methods and materials developed by the University of Colorado under contract to CMS. All QIS development and refinement activities are still conducted by the University of Colorado under a separate CMS contract.

abaqis® Quality Assurance System : Our web‐based QIS Quality Assurance System is the only web-based program tied directly to the Quality Indicator Survey, using the same rates and threshold comparisons as those used by surveyors. abaqis® is specifically designed for use by nursing home providers, providing reports that are focused on quality assurance and quality improvement.

abaqis® is available exclusively from Medline Industries
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Nursing Home Quality Provider Education : Nursing Home Quality currently offers a variety of educational programs that vary in focus and intensity.