QRM Buzz Podcast

The dining room is a natural environment for identifying long-term care resident needs in real time. There's no better place to easily explore and examine activities of daily living in action! And since all IDT members play a role in dining room support, this is an area where we all can share perspective to address resident needs.

If you remember Grand Rounds, check this one out! We may not “round” anymore but we still collaborate to determine individual patient needs.

Join QRM's CMI expert Rita Ramos for a discussion on how to use case mix index weights to drive LTC programming initiatives. What does CMI tell you and how can you use this information to individualize care plans and allocate appropriate resources for your LTC patient population? Check out this episode to find out!

Part 2 of our LTC Quality Improvement and Clinical Programming series Tune in for a review of the nursing home compare publicly reported long-stay quality measures used to help consumer make informed decisions about health care providers. Today we dig into the long-stay QMs used to calculate the 5 star Quality Domain

Introduction to a new podcast series: Long-Term Care quality improvement and clinical programming. In the next 5 episodes, we will navigate the new Care Compare website and analyze Nursing Home Compare 5 star quality measures specific to long-stay residents. We will discuss CMI and what your weighted Case Mix Index means, how it differs by state, and how to analyze monthly CMI trends to address LT...

During today's episode, QRM's VP of Medical Review Ashley Duggan shares 3 potential audit & denial risk areas her team has identified related to COVID. Resources discussed in today's episode: Let's Get to the Point: Coding and Documenting to Capture Isolation Given the current COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, providers have incorporated isolation into resident care to minimize infection transmiss...

Our COVID Clinical Practice Series continues with a review of the functional impact of COVID and strategies you can utilize to improve functional outcomes following the dramatic decline our industry experienced in March 2020

Our guest Rita is back on the pod to give our audience infection control strategies to implement before, during, and after resident interactions. She discusses why having an infection control plan before any resident activity is so important and how to incorporate infection control education into your activities to promote adherence - "this is MY dance space, and this is YOUR dance space"!! Resour...

Joining the pod for the next 2 episodes is QRM's new team member Rita Ramos, SLP and Quality Clinical Specialist. In this episode, Rita discusses the negative impacts of social distancing and isolation on the 3 D's: Depression, Delirium, Dementia and offers strategies to safely bring residents back together for carefully planned, choreographed social activities. Resources discussed in this episode...

We are back!! The next 4 episodes will focus on clinical practice strategies based on what we’ve learned over the last 7 months of PHE. Today is an introduction to our series on COVID strategies. Stay tuned for more!! Additional Show Notes: Polling Question of the Week - submit answers to buzzpodcast@qrmhealth.com What best describes your birth order style for keeping up with COVID-19 information?...

In this episode, we review caseload management strategies to reduce the risk of cross contamination during the public health emergency while also ensuring our patients have access to the services the need.

A traditional therapy model presents challenges to reducing cross contamination during the public health emergency. We offers suggestions on how to utilize technology to reduce practitioner travel between long-term care facilities

Options for adjusting documentation requirements to ensure uninterrupted care and decrease risk of COVID 19 spread

We revisit some of the most frequently asked questions during the public health emergency and give a shout out to a few of our rehab teams who are keeping residents engaged and moving despite barriers during current climate

Review of AHCA and NCAL guidance for therapists in LTC and SNF to prevent the spread of COVID-19

The first of many episodes dedicated to supporting our rehab teams working in skilled nursing facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Subscribe to the Buzz podcast to get daily treatment ideas, documentation tips, health promotion and safety strategies to utilize during this global crisis.

Use a 4 Quadrant Priority matrix to prioritize patient needs and services under PDPM. Focus on working in the Quadrant of Quality to improve outcomes and show value.

Too many redundant goals can dilute your plan of care and make it challenging to achieve functional goals. Tune in for strategies on selecting the best goals: 1. Choose less goals 2. Pick functional goals related to the reason for referral 3. Use consistent and measurable scales 4. Always include an education goal.

Unmet goals are a direct reflection of our rehab outcomes. When a discharge is planned, all goals should be met. Ask the following 3 questions when discharge planning to avoid unmet goals and negative outcomes: 1. Which goals are unmet? Focus on these areas ONLY prior to discharge 2. Does the goal need to be downgraded or discharged? If the patient will not achieve the established goal by the plan...

Therapy, we can show our value in PDPM by focusing on outcome measures to drive goals, treatments, and discharge planned. If you want to get better at the “thing”, then DO the “thing”!

What is your process for collecting and recording GG functional scores? GG impacts reimbursement under PDPM so accuracy and clear source documentation is critical! Try our 3 step process if you’ve identified gaps in your system - 1. Initiate 2. Collaborate 3. Document

With PDPM 6 weeks away, how do we assign therapy minutes when therapy minutes are no longer based on a RUG levels? I’ll walk you through my perspective on this question which will hopefully help you plan therapy minutes after October 1st.

We’ve identified 8 PDPM trends and opportunities based on grouper software data and share strategies you can implement now to prepare for October 1st.

On Day 3 of a skilled part A stay, meet as a team to predict the PDPM case mix groups. You’ve got until day 8 to confirm the CMGs so use the day 3 meeting to identify any questions and missing info impacting reimbursement.

What is your current pre-admission process and are you gathering the critical info need to predict case mix groups under PDPM? In this podcast, we review what questions to ask before the SNF patient admits to improve efficiency of the IDT collaborative meeting.