Initiative to test a multidisciplinary model with advanced practice nurses to reduce avoidable hospitalizations among nursing facility residents
Faculty at the Sinclair School of Nursing at the University of Missouri, with its 20-year history of partnering with Missouri nursing homes to improve quality of care, have assembled an extraordinary team of organizations to develop and implement the Missouri Quality Initiative for Nursing Homes (MOQI).This call to action was in response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)funding opportunity announcement: Initiative to Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations Among Nursing Facility Residents. The team includes the Quality Improvement Program for Missouri (QIPMO), Primaris (the Missouri Quality Improvement Organization), Leading-Age Missouri, Missouri Health Care Association, Missouri Hospital Association, Missouri Health Connection, Missouri Association of Long Term Care Physicians, Missouri Nurses Association, the Alzheimer’s Association, and others.
Rantz, M., Alexander, G., Galambos, C., Vogelsmeier, A., Popejoy, L., Flesner, M., Lueckenotte, A., Crecelius, C., & Zwygart-Stauffacher, M. (2014). Initiative to test a multidisciplinary model with advanced practice nurses to reduce avoidable hospitalizations among nursing facility residents. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 29(1), 1-8.
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