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Pressure Ulcer Events



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Transform Your Nursing Home:
Create a great place to live and work!


Meeting Objectives:
  • Learn realistic approaches to improve regulatory compliance, quality, and profitability.
  • Identify dynamic solutions to address business dilemmas and promote organizational excellence.
  • Learn practical ways to boost employee morale and reduce absenteeism and turnover.
  • Identify medication management noncompliance and strategies to improve medication safety.
Materials


Advancing Excellence Campaign Webinar and Teleconference
Advance Care Planning Tools and Techniques

January 25, 2011
2 to 3:15 p.m. (PT)
WebEx Recording
Presentation Slides




Advancing Excellence Campaign Webinar and Teleconference
You're a Member of the Advancing Excellence Campaign: Now What?
How to Enter, Track, and Trend your Data

October 19, 2010
WebEx Recording
Presentation Slides



Nursing Home Quality Improvement Collaborative
Learning Session 5—MDS 3.0 Trainings

Meeting Objectives
  • Understand how to code select MDS 3.0 data elements, including the physical restraint (PR) and pressure ulcer (PrU) items.
  • Discuss the Care Area Assessments (CAAs) for PRs and PrUs and the requirements for tool selection for conducting CAAs.
  • Identify proposed quality measures for PRs and PrUs.
  • Learn the timing and scheduling requirements for the OBRA-required clinical assessments.
  • Discuss the role of leadership in successful MDS 3.0 implementation.
Meeting Materials


Comprehensive Pain Management: Beyond F-Tag 309 Webinar
May 19, 2010

Main Webinar Presentation
Presentation Slides (PPT 2007 Version)
Presentation Slides (PPT 97-2003 Version)


Nursing Home Quality Improvement Collaborative
Learning Session 4
April 6, 2010—Riverside
April 12, 2010—Glendale


Meeting Objectives
  • Understand key components of regulatory compliance for the physical restraint and pressure ulcer quality measures.
  • Learn how select California nursing homes reduced their physical restraints.
  • Understand the importance of hydrating skin, handling fragile skin, and providing adequate nutrition in pressure ulcer prevention.
  • Identify and prevent common MDS coding errors to improve reporting accuracy for the pressure ulcer and physical restraint quality measures.
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Pressure Ulcer Prevention, Staging, and Treatment
Webinar and Telephone Conference
February 25, 2010
2 to 3:15 p.m. (PST)
Web Ex Recording

Presentation (Part 1)
Presentation (Part 2)

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HSAG Nursing Home and Hospital Pressure Ulcer Quality Improvement Collaborative
Learning Session 3
October 23, 2009 and November 6, 2009


Meeting Objectives
  • Improve pressure ulcer care for Californians in nursing homes and hospitals through effective cross-setting coordination of care.
  • Identify barriers and solutions to improve pressure ulcer care across the hospital and nursing home settings.
  • Identify consistent ways to send and receive information regarding pressure ulcers across hospital and nursing home settings.
  • Learn to use a standardized model for assessing pressure ulcer risk, staging wounds, and assessing skin to ensure consistency across settings.
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Nursing home Quality Improvement Collaborative
Learning Session 2


Meeting Objectives
  • Obtain tools and resources and share best practices to assist with the reduction and management of high-risk pressure ulcers and physical restraints.
  • Learn from California nursing homes that have successfully improved their physical restraint and pressure ulcer rates.
  • Obtain communication tools and resources to improve resident safety and staff satisfaction.
  • Understand the benefits of joining the Advancing Excellence Campaign.
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Nursing Home Quality Improvement Collaborative
Learning Session 1
May 15, 2009


Meeting Objectives
  • Understand how the High-Risk Pressure Ulcer and Physical Restraint Quality Measures are calculated from the Minimum Data Set (MDS (2.0)
  • Obtain tools and resources and share best practices to assist with the reduction and management of High-Risk Pressure Ulcers and Physical Restraints.
  • Discuss the transition of care from acute care to long term care and consistency in pressure ulcer prevention, staging, and treatment.
  • Share best practices and tools with other nursing homes and hospitals in the collaborative.
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