The Missouri Coalition Celebrating Care Continuum Change

The Missouri Coalition Celebrating Care Continuum Change (MC5)

by Sam Plaster, State Culture Change Coordinator 

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed by Congress in 2010 requires that all nursing homes develop Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) programs, ensuring that homes continuously identify and correct quality deficiencies as well as sustain performance improvement.  While the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has yet to promulgate the specific regulatory requirements, many homes are already initiating or improving their QAPI processes… to read more and view photos click here: MC5