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Enhancing Patient Safety: Understanding and Leveraging a Unit Safety Score for Improved Outcomes
The Unit Safety Score provides a comprehensive, weighted measure of inpatient safety performance by tracking eleven key domains across harm and best practice events. Calculated on a rolling three-month basis, the score is designed to help healthcare nursing units identify and address preventable patient safety issues, ensuring accountability and continuous improvement. (Webinar presented December 11, 2024)
What Boards Need to Know About the New CMS QAPI Requirement
CMS on March 9 released changes to its interpretive guidance for the Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) program.
What Boards Need to Know about the New CMS QAPI Requirement Jun 28
CMS's QAPI program is intended to ensure that hospitals have in place active and effective systems to examine the care they provide, identify problems that contribute to patient harm or poor performance and take steps to remedy those problems with appropriate follow up to ensure performance has improved. In updating this interpretive guidance, CMS is emphasizing its expectation that governing boards must oversee the quality of care provided. During AHA’s webinar, participants will hear from Nancy Foster, Vice President, Quality and Patient Safety, AHA about these new requirements and learn how to prepare your board to meet them.