Patient Safety in Nursing Homes
As the patient safety field experts for the Medicare program, Qsource provides nursing homes with tools to establish an organizational culture that supports patient safety, improves clinical processes, and reduces healthcare-acquired conditions (HACs). Together, we have the same goal: safer, more reliable patient care.
HAC Reduction in Nursing Homes
Nursing homes that join our HAC-reduction initiatives will contribute to a 40% national reduction in HAC rates by
- Reducing rates of pressure ulcers in nursing homes, and/or
- Reducing rates of physical restraint use in nursing homes
Qsource works directly with nursing home staff to improve the quality and reliability of patient care and eliminate factors that may lead to harm. We help nursing homes succeed by providing customized
- onsite consultation,
- quality improvement skills training,
- evidence-based tools and resources, and
- and ongoing education.
HAC Toolkits
Qsource has developed these comprehensive toolkits to help nursing homes improve patient care.
Learning and Action Network
Beginning in 2013, Qsource will launch a statewide LAN for nursing homes that will address catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), falls and other HACs. LAN participants will learn from local and national peers, obtain evidence-based tools and resources, and participate in improvement collaboratives. Contact us to be a part of this collaboration.
Free MDS Tracking and Quality Improvement Tools
The transition from MDS 2.0 to MDS 3.0 means that the quality measure reports you typically view to monitor your performance will not currently be published. Until sufficient data is collected and new quality measures are finalized, you will need to track your facility’s own performance.
The Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Home Campaign (AE) has created tracking tools for physical restraints, pressure ulcers and pain measures. They provide helpful tools on their Resources by Goal page for AE goals:
- AE Goal 3 – Physical Restraints: Tool for Tracking Physical Restraints
- AE Goal 4 – Pressure Ulcers: Pressure Ulcer Admitted Versus Acquired Tracking Tool
- AE Goal 5 – Pain Management: Tool for Tracking Pain
Learn more about Qsource’s role as a quality improvement organization (QIO) for Improving Individual Patient Care.
Contact us for more information on reducing HACs in your facility.
This page is funded by our Medicare QIO Program Contract.
