We all crowded around the television, pizza and leftover Halloween candy in hand, and watched national and local election results come in.
Our eldest child now has a class in school specific to government, and his questions never end. When will someone reach 270? What do you mean this is not going to be decided tonight?
Then a bit of goodness: Our son reads us a social media post from one of his friends’ mothers.
Hold on, Mom, he said. I am reading something from John’s mom. She is telling us to “choose kindness.”
Just the message we needed. She went on to give guidance on being a good neighbor and contributing to your community.
Kindness, accepting others, recognizing and appreciating the differences in others. Sounds familiar to me.
In recent years, we have seen this same movement in our industry toward kindness, person-centered care, and developing our care plans based not on cookie-cutter templates but honoring and embracing the differences in those we serve daily.
The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act (IMPACT Act), Requirements of Participation (RoPs) and the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) are all rooted in encouraging us to improve the quality of care we provide by increasing our focus on knowing our patients as determiners in their care, not simply receivers of care.
• The IMPACT Act supports the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ initiative “Meaningful Measures.” This new initiative identifies the high priorities for quality measurement and improvement. It demonstrates how improved outcomes for beneficiaries are being achieved through focusing on quality measures and core issues that are the most critical to providing high-quality care.
• RoP improved our focus and defined person-centered care, comprehensive care planning, resident rights, quality of life and quality of care, among other areas.
• PDPM eliminated volume-based incentives and improved the overall accuracy and appropriateness of SNF payments by classifying patients into payment groups based on specific, data-driven patient characteristics.
CMS has implemented changes to guide us to choose kindness. Now it is up to us to carry on.
Election Night was pizza night at the Kinder home.
We all crowded around the television, pizza and leftover Halloween candy in hand, and watched national and local election results come in.
Our eldest child now has a class in school specific to government, and his questions never end. When will someone reach 270? What do you mean this is not going to be decided tonight?
Then a bit of goodness: Our son reads us a social media post from one of his friends’ mothers.
Hold on, Mom, he said. I am reading something from John’s mom. She is telling us to “choose kindness.”
Just the message we needed. She went on to give guidance on being a good neighbor and contributing to your community.
Kindness, accepting others, recognizing and appreciating the differences in others. Sounds familiar to me.
In recent years, we have seen this same movement in our industry toward kindness, person-centered care, and developing our care plans based not on cookie-cutter templates but honoring and embracing the differences in those we serve daily.
The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act (IMPACT Act), Requirements of Participation (RoPs) and the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) are all rooted in encouraging us to improve the quality of care we provide by increasing our focus on knowing our patients as determiners in their care, not simply receivers of care.
• The IMPACT Act supports the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ initiative “Meaningful Measures.” This new initiative identifies the high priorities for quality measurement and improvement. It demonstrates how improved outcomes for beneficiaries are being achieved through focusing on quality measures and core issues that are the most critical to providing high-quality care.
• RoP improved our focus and defined person-centered care, comprehensive care planning, resident rights, quality of life and quality of care, among other areas.
• PDPM eliminated volume-based incentives and improved the overall accuracy and appropriateness of SNF payments by classifying patients into payment groups based on specific, data-driven patient characteristics.
CMS has implemented changes to guide us to choose kindness. Now it is up to us to carry on.
From the December 2020 Issue of McKnight's Long-Term Care News
