Nursing Home Quality - The QIS Experts - abaqis Nursing Home Quality Assurance System

Nursing Home Quality’s abaqis Quality Assurance System is the only quality assessment and reporting system that is tied directly to the Quality Indicator Survey (QIS). abaqis continually prepares you for either QIS or traditional long-term care surveys by showing the regulatory areas where you should focus your quality improvement efforts based on the same assessments that are used in the survey process. The emphasis on specific information reported by residents and families helps to ensure that you are meeting the needs of your residents. By using abaqis for quality assurance, you can continuously improve your survey readiness and manage your risk.

abaqis is a Web-based application that can be accessed from any Internet-connected device for data input, data analysis, and report generation. The rich reporting capability of abaqis identifies which of the 26 Care Areas, which are tied directly to the regulations and F tags in the QIS, a facility should target for quality improvement. The drill-down capabilities in abaqis not only identify possible deficiencies by Care Area, but also provide root cause analysis on both a facility-wide or individual resident basis.

abaqis^TM Stage I Suite

The abaqis Stage I Suite examines 104 resident-centered indicators of quality of care and quality of life (termed QCIs) that are used to identify care areas for investigation and possible citation in the QIS. These indicators, which go beyond the MDS QIs and QMs, are contained in six modules that faithfully reproduce the QIS assessments conducted on site during the survey. These modules include:

The assessments follow the protocols used in the QIS survey, showing only those questions that are required. The system uses all of the skip patterns and exclusions that contained in the survey software. abaqis’ enhanced graphics make data entry intuitive and easy to understand.

The individual module reports show where a facility rates relative to the survey thresholds in the 104 Quality of Care and Life Indicators based on the same logic that is used in a QIS survey. The easy-to-use Summary report guides a facility in quality improvement and continuous survey readiness by showing where their care is potentially deficient across all six assessments and the root cause of this potentially deficient practice.

abaqis^TM Stage I Suite Set-up Options

Whether you are implementing one facility or several, we have an abaqis set-up package to meet your needs.

This one day implementation includes a certified abaqis set-up specialist coming on site to your facility and conducting a QA overview session in which your staff will learn how to faithfully conduct the QIS assessments in the Stage I suite and how to begin implementing abaqis in your facility. The specialist will also train selected staff how to interpret the reports and use them for quality assurance. This set-up option is ideal for organizations with a small number of facilities who have already had at least basic training in QIS.

Basic Stage I Set-up Package

Includes Stage I Set-up and a 1-Day Basic Training.

Complete Stage I Set-up Package

Includes Stage I Set-up, a 1-Day Basic Training, and a 2-Day Practicum Training.

Stage I Set-up Specialist Package

Includes Stage I Set-up, a 1-Day Basic Training, a 2-Day Practicum Training, and one day of abaqis set-up specialist training. After participating in this set-up, your staff will be able to set-up additional facilities on its own.

Check out the Stage I Suite!