How to Develop and Implement an Effective Home Health QAPI Program

QAPI is a vital process for agencies to enhance patient and agency outcomes, prevent daily crises, and improve efficiency. It helps identify root causes of problems, enhances compliance with clinical documentation, and reduces condition-level deficiencies.
  • Tuesday
  • January
  • 07
  • 2025
10:00 AM PST | 01:00 PM EST
Duration: 60 Minutes
IMG Sharon Litwin
Webinar Id: 60611
Live
Session
$119.00
Single Attendee
$249.00
Group Attendees
Recorded
Session
$159.00
Single Attendee
$359.00
Group Attendees
Combo
Live+Recorded
$249.00
Single Attendee
$549.00
Group Attendees

Overview:

QAPI is not easy if you are first starting out or if you have been doing it a long time.  WHY? Because it takes time, you need an understanding of concepts to be successful at it and you need to involve all of your staff to really have it help your agency and be compliant. 

QAPI helps your agency improve patient and therefore agency outcomes, which is so necessary with the 5 Star ratings and with Value Based Purchasing, which is Pay for Performance!  Agencies that cannot improve their outcomes will have a difficult time having long term viability. 

QAPI also will help your agency to avoid the daily ‘Fire’s, as you will Fix the Root of Problems and therefore not have a Crisis Du Jour!  So you can then have the time you need to ensure your QAPI program is a good one!

As you progress in your Quality Indicators, you will also find that you are in greater compliance with your clinical documentation, processes and home visits. This will lessen you risk of having condition level deficiencies or

Immediate Jeopardy! You will avoid the risk of sanctions by doing his as well. 

A successful QAPI program can help you be efficient in your agency operations as well and as we have to be so mean and lean today, this is of major importance!

Why you should Attend:

QAPI is so important for your agency - to improve outcomes, to lessen risk, as well as to prevent issues from occurring.  QAPI is Not to be done just to pass surveys.

Also QAPI is key to improving patient and agency outcomes - and therefore an agency’s 5Star Ratings and VBP outcomes. 

Areas Covered in the Session:

  • QAPI Cop
  • Data driven elements- iQies, home health compare
  • Key areas to develop a QAPI program
  • How to select Quality Indicators and PIPs
  • How to collect data from clinical record reviews etc to target lower outcomes
  • How to involve all staff in QAPI
  • How to develop action plans for improvement

Who Will Benefit:

  • Administrator
  • QAPI Coordinator
  • Director Patient Services
  • Field Staff

Speaker Profile

Sharon Litwin, RN, BSHS, MHA, HCS-D, COQS Litwin Home Health Consulting, LLC

Sharon has had an extensive career in home health, starting as a field nurse in 1985. Over the ensuing years, she held positions in California and Missouri as Director of Patient Services, Administrator, Regional Director, and Executive Director of a large hospital-based home services division. In 2003, Sharon left the corporate world to create 5 Star Consultants, to utilize her knowledge in partnership with agencies in providing assistance and education to those in need. Since then, she has also been a CHAP and ACHC surveyor, performing Medicare deemed accreditation surveys for 10 years.

In 2020, she sold the company to Healthcare Provider Solutions, and is now offering her expertise and knowledge to a limited number of clients in the industry. Sharon now lives in sunny Cape Coral, Florida, and is pleased to offer services through her new consulting agency, Litwin Home Health Consulting, LLC.