With the updated Appendix PP interpretive guidance and enhanced Facility Assessment requirements, recruitment and retention strategies, and plans are more important than ever. This session will provide attendees with key strategies and tools for a team-based approach to recruitment and retention, aligning with the facility assessment and the enhanced requirements. Throughout this engaging presentation, keen insights on recruitment strategies for today’s candidate-driven world, as well as creative retention tactics that can be used to engage a diverse and multigenerational workforce.

1 CE credit for Nurses, Directors of Nursing & Nursing Home Administrators

This presentation will review how a large nursing home company systematically reduced its utilization of psychotropic medications and achieved a sustained Long-stay Antipsychotic QM rate of less than 12%. There will be a special focus on how to ensure regulatory compliance and accurate diagnoses while achieving this success. Participants will learn about this systematic approach, how to engage their facility, and achieve similar results. There will be a focus on how to ensure regulatory compliance and accurate diagnoses while achieving this success.

1 CE credit for Nurses, Medical, and Administrators credits

Learn about details, participation, and payment (PDF) for the new Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM)

• CMS will allow acute care hospitals who participate in the model to discharge patients without a 3-day hospital stay to a qualified skilled nursing facility (SNF) or swing bed provider, including a critical access hospital

• The patient must meet the eligibility criteria for TEAM and have a qualifying outpatient procedure or hospital inpatient stay prior to admission to the SNF

• The admission date to the SNF must happen no later than 30 days after the hospital or outpatient department discharges the patient

• We’ll pay for services when the SNF claim meets certain payment criteria, including submitting the claim with the required TEAM demonstration code A9