June 13, 2017 | Lakeview Health Center | West Salem, WI (near LaCrosse)
AGENDA
8:15 Check-in, coffee/tea
8:30 The QAPI Requirement – A Gift from the Government
9:30 Be Proactive – Be your own Surveyor – KNOW the NEW Regulations
10:30 Break
10:45 New Regulations continued
11:45 Lunch
12:15 High Involvement – The Key to QAPI; Guiding Principles; The Team Leadership Model and Influencing Change
2:15 Break
2:30 Culture Change Practices to Put to Work
3:30 Adjourn
Contact
Marsha PoulsenAction Pact
414-258-3649
marsha.poulsen@actionpact.com
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"QAPI is the coordinated application of two mutually-reinforcing aspects of a quality management system: Quality Assurance (QA) and Performance Improvement (PI). QAPI takes a systematic, comprehensive, and data-driven approach to maintaining and improving safety and quality in nursing homes while involving all nursing home caregivers in practical and creative problem solving.” -- from QAPI description, CMS.gov
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Hopefully you recognize that the QAPI requirement is a gift from the government. Are you utilizing QAPI to its fullest potential? Do you focus on being proactive and preventative? Have you taught your staff and colleagues how to “be your own surveyor”? Do you personally know the regulations -- the new regulations? Your community is held accountable to them. Come to this workshop and learn the guiding principles of -
- High Involvement, a basic principle of the Household Model and the key to QAPI- The Team Leadership Model
- Your role in influencing change
- Common culture-change best practices to consider in your QAPI endeavors
Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Apply the QAPI requirement to all federal regulations.
- Describe ways to be proactive including by being your own surveyor
- List the culture change practices to utilize in QAPI endeavors.
About the presenter
Carmen Bowman is owner of Edu-Catering: Catering Education for Compliance and Culture Change turning her former role of regulator into educator. Carmen was a Colorado state surveyor for nine years, a policy analyst with CMS Central Office where she taught the national Basic Surveyor Course and was the first certified activity professional to be a surveyor. Carmen has a Master’s degree in Healthcare Systems, a Bachelor’s in Social Work and German, is a Certified Eden Associate and Eden Mentor, Certified Validation Worker and Group Practitioner.
Carmen is host of the Action Pact monthly webinar Conversations with Carmen. She co-developed the Artifacts of Culture Change measurement tool. She is author of Action Pact workbooks: Living Life to the Fullest, Quality of Life, and Regulatory Support for Culture Change. She has co-authored: Changing the Culture of Care Planning, Soften the Assessment Process and Vibrant Living.
Cost: $120 for a single attendee; $99 each for multiple attendees (includes lunch)
Continuing education. The National Continuing Education Review Service (NCERS) of the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long Term Care Administrators (NAB) has approved this program for 6 clock hours.